Neil Jordan’s Byzantium makes a fine companion piece to Joe Wright’s Hanna (2011), which also stars Saoirse Ronan as a lethal teenaged girl at a remove from humanity, navigating a beautifully shot metaphor for female coming-of-age and all its associations with the loss of ‘purity’ or ‘innocence.’ It’s also a logical follow-up to Jordan’s The […]
Nothing has absorbed the American consciousness so thoroughly as the singular hero; the one-man army. It is something that is re-enacted over and over in video games, and action films, where stars such as Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone defeat masses of people against all odds. In the real world, figures like this are few […]
Neil Jordan’s Byzantium makes a fine companion piece to Joe Wright’s Hanna (2011), which also stars Saoirse Ronan as a lethal teenaged girl at a remove from humanity, navigating a beautifully shot metaphor for female coming-of-age and all its associations with the loss of ‘purity’ or ‘innocence.’ It’s also a logical follow-up to Jordan’s The […] 