Tag: Star Wars

“Rogue One” is the Perfect Brutal Movie for a Collectively Bleak Future
Movies · Politics · Wear Your Voice Magazine

“Rogue One” is the Perfect Brutal Movie for a Collectively Bleak Future

Sezin Koehler

“On the day I went to see Rogue One, Donald Trump tweeted, “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” In spite of my best efforts, I couldn’t stop those words from clanging about my head as I watched a movie about the creation of a so-called planet-killer weapon. The metaphor of the Death Star representing nuclear proliferation was just too poignant and terrifying.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, Jan 2017.

Where are all the South Asians in Dystopian Films and TV?
Culture · Television · Wear Your Voice Magazine

Where are all the South Asians in Dystopian Films and TV?

Sezin Koehler

“What The 100 was telling me, on no uncertain terms, is that an ethnicity that makes up one of the Earth’s most populous regions did not survive into the far future. What in the actual fuck.

Stopped in my tracks, I started thinking about all the different dystopian stories I’ve watched over the years, to realize over and over again that South Asians often don’t exist in the future. We’ve been erased.”

For Wear Your Voice Mag, December 2016.

Kylo Ren, the Parent Wound, and Complicating Good vs Evil in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Florida · Huffington Post · Movies · Trauma · Zuzu Huffington

Kylo Ren, the Parent Wound, and Complicating Good vs Evil in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sezin Koehler

“Abrams did a marvelous job of complicating the notion that just because you may fight for the side of Light, that doesn’t mean you’re a good person, just as fighting for the side of Dark doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person.” My 26th article for HuffPost, published in February 2016.