Multiple Dialectics in “Bound” (1996)

            This time I want to examine Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound” without using a particular theorist as a guide. Specifically, I want to ask why Caesar has a look of what I understand to be calm right before killing Gino. Is this moment of peace just an eye at the center of the storm? Or is there something more behind it?

            I will try to argue that there is something more behind it. I think the peace is the result of

Roland Barthes and a Relaying Anchor: or why Bound (1996) Betrays the Cinema’s Tragedy

I want to revisit Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound”, this time from the perspective of Roland Barthes’ (in his Rhetoric of the Image). I want to specifically examine the character Shelly