Category: film

• Am I Too Old to Enjoy This?

  The adult in me thinks that she is very juvenile and naive, and I wonder if I’m just too jaded to enjoy how whimsical she is, how her whole world seemed to be rose-colored and bright.

  Evan Tan

  September 21, 2021

  art, current events, film, media, personal life, pop culture, rambling, reflections

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• Solidarity or Shit: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the entrenched inequalities in our society. Already we’re seeing how the less privileged are made to choose between dying from hunger or dying from the disease, while the rich continue to believe that these people are merely being stubborn–lacking the discipline that is demanded by this enhanced community quarantine…

  Evan Tan

  March 21, 2020

  film, gay, personal life, pop culture, reflections, vegan

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• For the Privileged, a Performance of the Poor

  The real enemy is the invisible one that never shows its face: the system that creates these tensions between peoples of different classes.

  Evan Tan

  August 19, 2019

  film, personal life, reflections, Uncategorized

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