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Jun 8, 2025
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Emotional Spine, Agency and Why Legibility is not the Enemy of Complexity
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Dhurandhar, Part II: Moral Ambiguity Without Interior Life
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Why Dhurandhar Works—and Where Its Craft Stops Short: Part 1
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Filmmaking, Unromaticised
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