this was my first ingmar bergman movie and i was afraid i would find it too boring or too european for my silly brain.
au contraire, it flowed really smoothly although its two hours, and it is soothing, the calmness of the scenes. however, the whole plot is not that calming, since it is about a former couple who meets after 30 years, and the women gets involved in his relatives complicated lives and relations.
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so, everyone was speaking about it and we finally saw it yesterday.
it is a really nice movie, goes on really fast and the performances are great. although the king is a rather temperamental person, you grow affectionate really easily. nice nice. about my "two months" post where i complained about time going really fast: this article.
about an unemployed man with two children who now has less time to be with them and had to hire a nanny. today i went to a soccer match.
the reason was the following: a three hours before the match mini calls and tells me he has an extra ticket. i say yes, we go. mini lived in poznan where he made and EVS that finished by the same time as mine. so it's nice to meet each other and talk about how things are going, tak tak. the city was already covered with polish men wearing blue and dead drunk in the afternoon. the people from braga are always very happy to see foreigners and all the retired people were laughing with them. and today i had this thought that, because it was so sunny and great - the polish were wearing only t-shirts - everyone was outside! so many people, it was great, i thought that i never had this feeling in bratislava, maybe due to the city' construction, i never saw a lot of people in the streets! well, but this doesn't matter! the thing is, going to soccer matches is super great, even if you know nothing about soccer! only seldom do i look at the field, the whole environment is great. there are the songs, the people really passionate about the team, and, my favourite, the bench coaches. oh how i loooove them! they swear everytime, the referee does everything wrong - except when the other team sees a card - and the coach of the team is to blame for everything that happens. i'm talking about regular people that, when watching a match, become crazy! the man next to me was so elegant but then he started saying all these things and i just laughed. i really want to repeat this. who cares about the game, these people say pearls! like "you referee!!! you are as tall as you are a son of a bitch!!!" ah minho minho. saw die welle today. it was just ok, a bit boring at first but then a little more exciting, specially because it is a real story.
a very cool high-school teacher has to teach a class of "autochracy" although he would much prefer to teach the "anarchy" one. having nothing else to do, he decided to be very pragmatic about it, and thinks the best way to teach the students about the theme is to show them how it is done. so, quickly they build a very strict group called "the wave", with a leader, uniform, a greeting, and the thing goes beyond school walls and grows bigger everyday. the drama is that it's obvious how vulnerable people - we - are to mass thinking and the feeling of inclusion. a lot of the kids didn't agree on some things but loved being part of a community. but how you will see in the end, it goes too far. once again we have turned to a movie in mongolia! yes, they all are from the same director and yes, they were all suggested by r. - and i love them all.
tuya's wedding is about a women with a handicapped husband and two small children, a real hardworker, who discovers she has some serious back injury and cannot make further physical efforts. after this, the movie is about a good friend, a water well, and tuya's search for a husband who can keep her previous husband and children in the same house. it's really sweet, i liked the end, although a bit crazy! i have returned from slovakia already two months ago.
the return is going smoothly, i keep talking via e-mail with my friends there, and we are exchanging postcards and letters, it is really nice. the thing i miss the most is my job and the calmness of my routine. i am thinking about one thing that disturbs me, which is the time. although i have now a lot of time, i still am always in a hurry. i believe it's not only me, but everyone who lives too much time in front of the computer..no? i feel discouraged to read a long text, to see a video that is too long, i don't have the patience to knit big pieces...i am always in a hurry to do nothing, always feeling time is passing really quick but i don't do anything with it. and that is it, everything ok, just miss the feeling of calmness and mission accomplished, although days in rms were sometimes quite hectic, i liked it. today i'll have my first conversation about a potential job, let's see how it goes. this picture is me in my orthopedic boots cleaning the garden in our previous house. this week, while at home in a very rainy day, i remembered the international film festival in bratislava, and the movies i wanted to see. although i only saw one and had to pay for it - grrrr - i have the booklet and from time to time i think about the movies.
so, i saw this one on youtube, not a fancy quality at all but good enough. my days in slovakia, because of the people i met there, made me more green and aware of some eco things, and this was a nice documentary about the consequences and the business behind bottled water. here at home, we have always drank water from the tap and sometimes it's hard to find a plastic bottle when i go on a journey or to dance classes - well, now it's not important because my father gave me a yellow water bottle that i carry everywhere. however, when i moved to granada to live with two other girls, i understood there are people that ONLY drink bottled water. because we shared all the expenses, after our first big shopping, i had to pay for 5l of bottled water, although i didn't find any difference between that one and the tap water. this only lasted for one or two weeks, because we couldn't afford to pay for it, and it was really silly, the tap water was good! it was funny watching this documentary although it only talks about the american reality - i have no idea how the bottled water business works in europe. in a country so big, there is only one person responsible for the management of quality of bottled water, and that's not even her only function. so, what happens is the following: - the companies like nestle, coca cola and pepsi go to the natural resources and pump the water for free, without paying anything to anyone. - these companies do not have to make any quality reports and send them to some governmental department. - all bottled water that circulates inside the state is NOT controlled - only water that crosses states' borders is. - almost all bottled water in consumed inside the states. - in their independent studies, chemists found the most incredible things in this bottled water, including cancerigenous substances. - tap water is controlled circa 4000 times a year, bottled water is not. - plus, there is the pollution behing the massive production of plastic bottles. - a big quantity of bottled water is in fact, tap water and only recently were they obliged to put this information on the bottle. crazy, hu? on your right side you can see a new sidebar content. it is a flickr account i share with luis, with the analog pictures we've been taking. although they appear randomly, we update the photostream everyday. we hope you like it!
the weather has been really rainy (i mean really really) so, the things to tell are few and indoorsy. yesterday we went to "museu da ciência da universidade de lisboa" and saw a very good exhibition about the first years of cinema in portugal. although there were no more than 8 rooms we spend there probably two hours staring into old videos. besides very old and beautiful movie posters, old video cameras and funny stories from the old cinemas (very very noisy) there were a lot of old videos. it was amazing to see from the first mute movies to the portuguese classics. i don't know if you've ever heard about manoel de oliveira, a very famous (and over 100 years old) movie director. there was a movie from him from the 1930's, with no sound but with and incredible management of the scenes. back then, he was avant-gard and the way he shot and put the scenes together was very controversial. we were really impressed by the movies they were showing there. it ended with this classic "canção de lisboa", some call it movies of the dictatorship, but they sure are funny! |
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