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

“Bound” (1996) – Gorgio Agamben vs. William Connolly

In this post I seek to examine Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound” from the perspective (once again) of Giorgio Agamben. This time I want to go over the scene where Caesar kills Gino (played by Richard Sarafian). I suggest that Caesar’s ability to kill Gino is a good illustration of the figure of homo sacer within the sovereign. I want to then consider  William Connolly’s criticism of Agamben, and relate that back to the film – showing how there is

Bound’s (1996) Politics of Becoming

            This post I want to once again visit  Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound” – this time from the perspective of William Connolly’s Bergsonian idea of duration (as advanced in his book Pluralism). The specific scene that is of interest is the scene where Corky and Violet plan to steal the money. It is a scene that has a number of temporal oddities that well reflects the temporal politics of becoming. My thesis is that Bound, in this scene, gives a good representation

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

Bisexuality and the Exception in “Bound” (1996)

I think that the Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound” is an interesting case for examining the exclusions that found what Robert Cover calls nomoi. This article is an attempt to analyze two scenes from the movie in light of the idea that every normative universe is founded