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Technical

Year: 2009

Director: Javier Fuentes-León

Writer: Javier Fuentes-León

Country: Peru

Genre: Drama

120 min.

cast Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo

Synopsis Michael is a dear young fisherman of Cape Blanco, a small fishing village on the north coast of Peru, where there deep-rooted traditions about death. Michael is married to Mariela, seven months pregnant with their first child, but has an extremely secret romance with another man Santiago, a painter who moved to town a year ago and is rejected by the people to be agnostic and open about their sexuality. Miguel faces a great dilemma when James accidentally drowns and returns, after death, to ask him to find his body in the sea and bury it, according to the rituals of the people, that his soul rests. To do so would reveal his relationship with James, and ruining his marriage and reputation. Failing which he would sentence him to wander forever.

Michael is forced to deal with the consequences of their actions and accept who he really, although doing so there is a possibility of losing the people you love.

Comment

This movie makes me think about the need for transit through the match against a loss in each of its phases:

1 .- Confusion and disbelief. The denial of reality, a departure from the done to try to mitigate the effects of the event. Michael denies his relationship with James, is something unusual and unacceptable in their community, despite their feelings chooses to live with his wife and is expecting her first child, this life fits into your order and clings to it . Santiago feels a deep affection for and attraction, allowed to reveal in the solitude of the couple, from the secret and internal negation.

2. Deep sadness and aggression. Under pressure from Santiago on one side and gossip emerging from the gossip of the town, his secret is threatened not accepted, Miguel this experience will produce reactions of anger, discontent and anxiety, feeling the protagonist of a disgrace that does not star.

3. Despair and depression. With apathy, sadness and fragility, is realizing how he has to make a vital choice beyond being carried away by momentary impulse, a decision that means losing one of their lives, in this case and denied the hidden life. In pregnancy of the decision, loses his wife and son when he disclosed the relationship with Santiago. Being honest with yourself and therefore with his wife, is the first step of the way for acceptance of his own life, and that's what helps him out of the loop.

4. Acceptance and peace. Is slowly reviving the need to focus on daily activities, be open to social relations, to continue with his life. However, never returns to its state before the loss. After this process, Michael is another, confident, deep, deep, a transformation derived from his own grief and acceptance, today is a man with greater understanding of himself that before the duel.

The film plays with a double death, domestic and physical Miguel Santiago. Strikes me as the film is how we cling to memories emotional response to loss, either death, or separation, not willing to release their loved one died, in this case, Miguel Santiago still had in his mind, talking with , not wanting to let go of him, clinging to his memory and company, and only after the acceptance of his death, and be faithful to fulfill the wish of his friend comes to his funeral and then finally at peace and is released their addiction.

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I recommend this film, readers, I was transported to an environment of extraordinary warmth and humanity, and a greater understanding of how pain is healing, and how after death there is life.

Raquel Lázaro

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MAMMOTH (mammoth)

Technical

Original title: Mammoth

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Country: Germany Sweden, Denmark

Year: 2009

Length: 127 min.

Genre: Drama

Starring: Michelle Williams, Gael García Bernal, Thomas McCarthy, Sophie Nyweide

Movie Synopsis

set in various international settings: United States Thailand and the Philippines. Leo is a man who has achieved success in the gaming industry. And Ellen, his wife, works as a doctor. Both live in New York with her young daughter, who, because their parents are engrossed in their work, spends much time with a nanny named Gloria, a matter that great concern to Ellen, fearful of losing the affection of the child. One day, due to a business matter, Leo must make a trip abroad, and from that moment will be a cluster of events that so deeply affect his family life.

Comments

is a slap in the face of our current reality. Show

personal life in the globalization of the markets. People live fast, disconnected from our reality, and disconnected from our real needs. I bring this film to the artificial need to fill that inner void with activity, hustle and bustle, a vacuum even at the highest occupancy still leaving empty.

This movie makes me thinking of how I think routinely superfluous needs to depersonalize me avoiding contact with my innermost being, and isolated from others, of life.

From the movie I suspect the lack of an I you, barred with the mobile, PDAs and computers, supplanting the visual and tactile communication by digital communication, hampered by the workload is not physical, intellectual, yes.

Reflecting on how I want to be somewhere with people being in another place and with others, and as between this loop appears to me the need for affection, closeness and intimacy, to search for the other, searching for harmony, while I realize that as me from fulfilling my need to pop the bottom, which I meet in my fantasy pseudo, producing a sense of mess, confusion and unhappiness. Shows

globalized world based on consumption in all parts of the world, power and domination, where we stop living life in its fullness to achieve higher status and greater property, amenities, at the expense of not being where we really want be. I realize how I avoid the detail and flavor of the little things, insignificant precisely because the tilde it before stopping to realize them.

Shows lack of commitment to the decisions we make, through infidelity, the film flesh by the reality of circumstances varied.

shows how we are not responsible for the consequences of the decisions we make, I realize how I am or not the responsibility of my life.

There is a clear sequence of this, Western mother is angry with the nurse when she realizes that her daughter is very interested in learning Tagalog (language of the nurse) and their customs.

shows how globalization, the use of technology, the rush, and live away from the present separates us from realizing the reality, and personal care to others, I realize the next step in how I live, I live from what I do, not from what I'm doing, feeling stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction, the expectation I put something else while living, or rarely matches the reality of what I'm living in right now.

shows how all this is a wheel, a vicious circle that is difficult to go out and encompassing all countries regardless of where each one has in this world.

The crisis of the capitalist system in its domestic side.

Rachel Lazarus

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technical and artistic

Year 1992

Length: 102 min.

UK Country

Director Kenneth Branagh

Cast Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Imelda Staunton, Richard Briers, Phyllida Law, Alex Scott, Edward Jewesbury, Rita Rudner, Ann Davies, Tony Slattery, Alex Lowe

Synopsis A group of old friends gather to spend the new year in the company, after being separated for 10 years. Have been called Peter, who has just inherited an English manor of his recently deceased father. I joined them at the time was his fondness for the show, and above all shame.

But over the years their lives have evolved, including their neurosis. So guests are appearing one by one: a parent's death traumatized by one of her twins, a vampire with his latest conquest, a repressed spinster and old-fashioned that takes refuge in books and a Hollywood producer with his pseudo-famous woman obsessed with thinness. The host of this motley crew is Peter, a man in a difficult time in your life wants to be together with those he considers his friends.

Christmas Christmas I live it now, and I understand that is an increasingly widespread sense, as a party based on values \u200b\u200bexclusively consumerist motives disguised as friendly and inclusive. A party that celebrates the wild competitiveness in the image of the universal values \u200b\u200bof brotherhood and love. In short, a quasi-obscene celebration. It is therefore not surprising that the traditional, and in many cases, forced family gatherings and friends, are often tinged with this same hypocrisy. And while listening to the comments of the people in my surroundings it seems a shared conception of Christmas does not seem sufficient reason to assume an attitude change in line with the perceived reality, why not? What keeps us the wheel, knowing that the wheel is flawed? How can we contribute as meek sheep to values \u200b\u200bthat hurt us?

Peter's friends gather to celebrate the New Year together and although they do have as a fundamental Christmas, during the three days we spent together show all the defects found in most families to make up, usually without much success, to contribute to the image of love and unity that is required of us at this time .

The family ... friends

And these eight people are together, that once made sense, at Christmas 1992 in a massive English manor. At the first formal greetings hysterical joy tinged follow them the first flashes of panic each, which will manifest itself until it reaches its maximum expression in each of the guests at different times of the plot, to the point of wondering what they are doing together, and what have gathered. And this is precisely the question that is not just us and it might be healthier than we did at dinner parties and holiday meals. What am I doing here? To which may still others as "Who are these people sitting next to me? What really binds me to link them beyond the familiar? And is this reason enough to come here today and be with them?

These and similar questions could lead us to discover the real motivation of these meetings each of us can give them a sense and a more human and personal value to them, in case this question of reality has continuity in response to the meeting.

In its day this group of friends had it clear, I joined the shame, today, in 1992, having been invited by a dear friend from the past. And for what? Friend's motivation is a desire to be with people who once felt close to share with them a difficult personal situation and possibly for company in this vital moment of solitude.

Friendship And is that despite everything, at times difficult, one needs to be with those who once had a link. Why? I have no answer. I can think of several like being together in the most sterile solitude, to feel heat in a time when reality becomes starkly cold, having a fantasy moment you set foot on the ground before the terrifying vertigo that causes the existential void , a concrete blanket here and now before the black hole of infinite eternity ... I am a skeptical person and although at some point in my life I felt this heat, this soil, this blanket ... in human company, then, when company has spread, when only loneliness has been to keep me company and the only blankets to wrap myself have been have been my bed, real and not metaphorical, I fall into the black hole and I turn and I go black hole, infinite and I feel only terror reminds me that I'm alive and I'm human, then I wonder why the friendship? What is this? who? And above all, is worth living knowing that it is only for a moment?

say that we tend to have two attitudes to life, build for fear of losing, and not have the fear of losing, in both cases what was behind a non-acceptance of the ephemerality of life. Obviously, I'm one of those people who have fears because he knows he will lose and that's painful. I find it hard to accept the pain, I tend to disconnect. But lately I'm daring to live moments of connection and experience the pain it causes me to live here and now, in a world increasingly creepy feeling and I admit powerless and alone. And at the same time, paradoxically, increasingly appreciate more the relationship with others, perhaps because I am more able to appreciate the company in solitude. Also, whenever I feel it is less important to have had a prior relationship with the people I meet for company, because in reality although I sense that some level there is a difference between being with someone I've known for a long time or someone who previously did not know, I see that in its essence, quality and quality of the relationship depends entirely on you and me here and now and in the context in which we find ourselves, whether or not we're together or been before or not later.

ttal Lizarraga