About Me

Entertain | Mental was originally established in 2018 as a blog for recommending movies, TV shows, and music in the ever-changing streaming landscape. Over time it developed into taking these facets of entertainment and exploring their deeper meaning. Like modern myths, each scene, script, and lyric reaches wide audiences with the hopes of shaping their worldview. Telling stories about stories.

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• Can The Wizard of Oz  be considered an American fairytale? Were its symbols and themes of fruitful farmlands and the everyday man provide a beacon of hope for a nation recovering from the Great Depression?

 

• The earthquakes, floods, and fires depicted in disaster movies of the 21st century - 2012, San Andreas, Greenland, etc. - rival that of stories found in ancient texts. Why do these images instill cataclysmic anxiety or existential dread as similar events unfold in our own world (if at all)?  

 

• Oppenheimer was released at a time of heightened turmoil between warring nations, particularly leading superheroes with nuclear capabilities. Why? What were director Christopher Nolan's intentions for retelling this story now - some 70 years after the bomb went off and what came next? 

 

I don’t know. It’s all rather subjective. That’s the fun of it and Entertain | Mental is a space to ask these questions. What we consume consumes us; and that has the power to influence, inform, and - most importantly - entertain.