Journal Entry #2 – Paulo

In my opinion, in the kitchen I can do all the essential things. I know how to cook Miojo, scrambled and fried eggs and popcorn.  I cook this kind ofthings almost every week. But when I want to change or I want to eat something different I can order by phone pizzas, chinese foof, japanese food and whatever I want.

Rick: Why did you decide to learn how to cook? Did anyone force you to do so? And also, do you think that teenagers like yourself should learn how to cook as well so that they will be able to be more independent in the future?

Journal Entry # 2

Respond to one of the questions we have discussed in class today.

Journal Entry # 1 – Maria Gabriela

 Gabriela: I have look into the colleges that I’m planning on apply on so that next year I’ll be more prepared and more confident. High schools should help the students look ahead in their plans for the future, showing all the possibilities, all the colleges for them to know exactly what they want to do before the college enter examination, to be more prepared, for the people on the last grade of high school already know waht they want for their future, being confident about their choise.

Bruno – Tropa de Elite

 

 I liked the movie “Tropa de Elite”. It is a recent brasilian movie that is making a lot of success.

I liked the movie because it shows the reality of our country. It shows the dark side of the society. Most of people think that Brazil is only women, carnaval and soccer. But it is not, in Rio de Janeiro (where the plot takes place) there is a lot of criminality around the city and even more practise of drug dealing in every slum. And the movie shows exactly those crimes. I like the BOPE (Batalhão de Forças Policiais Especiais) way of acting. They invade the slums trying to stop the drug dealing, they kill the criminals and people involved with it. I am absolutely not agaisnt their violent behavior. Actually, I support it. But I think this is not the correct way of trying to stop the criminality. Because, even killing the drug dealers and people who are involved with this illicit act, the crime won’t be stopped. The worst criminals can even die. But if you kill one, in the next day, there will be another guy in his place that is just like as him or even worse. Therefore, you can kill drug dealers, but the crime won’t be stopped. You can be sure that there is another guy just waiting his time to take control of  the “slum drug dealing business”. Therefore, despite I am being in favor of BOPE, I know that they are not the best solution for our problems. There are a lot of people that think that their are a panacea, but they are not, they are just a fast solution to decelerate the drug dealing spreading. I just support their way of acting, while a better solution is not taken.

That’s why I like so much that movie. It shows a lot of problems of our society, and make we think about it. Just not the way of the police acting to try to stop the drug dealing in our slums, but also trying to show that rich boys who consume drugs, also contribute to finance the drug dealing. OK, that’s it. Besides showing the bad aspects of our country, it also make we think about a lot of important things that happens here.

the butterfly effect

I love this movie because it shows that an act of a person can cause a lot of different futures depending on what he/she decided to do at that time. The main caractor (Evan Treborn) has a series of flashbacks and has the power to came back to the past to correct his errors. He  doesn’t think in himself but only in his family and friend kayleigh, lenny and Tommy. My favority part is the end because Evan make a final decition to make sure that his girl (Kayleigh) have a best future. I trully belive in this part of the film and always think twice before doing something that can affect people around me.

Fried Green Tomatoes

I have a lot of favourite films, but one of them is “Fried Green Tomatoes”. It´s a very interesting and beatifull film that talks about life and learning about enjoying at most it.

It´s a very delicated and deep film that makes you reflect about the most important values in life, and when you seet it you start to have another view of your way to live.

Also the cast is very good, I´ve never seen Jessica Tandy so fantastic, the story is even better and it´s very good directed by Jon Avnet.

I never get tired of seeing it, and every time I see it seems more fantastic. It´s just like more than a film, it´s a lesson of life, everybody should watch it.

Click

Click is a movie about a guy who gets a special remote control which allows you to comeback in time, to go to the futere, to speed up moments and so forth. This guy uses the control in a bad way speeding up his life, skiping the boring moments and some other moments which were not boring but he skiped it just to see what would happen in the futere, and he realizes that he didn’t enjoy enought time with his children and his wife and it’s this that makes the movie one of my favourites, the message which it pass to us that we can’t speed up our lives, bad moments and boring moments are parts of our lives so we can’t skip it and we have to enjoy the moment to don’t feel regret after because we don’t have a second chance.

2001: A Space Odyssey

I love this movie specially because Stanley Kubrick directed. It was made in 1968 inspired on the novel of Arthur C. Clarke and if you watch it nowadays it seems like it was recently made. It’s amazing what Kubrick created with simplicity and criativity, he shoots scenes that make everybody wonder how the hell he done that. It is the most beautiful and well done movie that I ever watched. The movie has the biggest jump of historical scenes on the history of the Movies, it goes of the chip stone time till 2001.

I already wactched this movie fourteen times and I steel watch it when i’m in a good moon to discover some subliminal things behinds that amazing scenes. By watching this movie so many times I realized that it’s more than a scientific-fiction movie, it’s a political and a spiritual movie. To understand some scenes you have to know some information about the time that it was made and wath were the expectations about the future of the modern society. I had to watch some scenes tree or four times just to understand what Kubrick was trying to say to the world. There are some details that you only see if you watch it more than one time, that’s why I love this movie, till today he cause mistery and doubts on the expectators minds, there are books and documentarys that trys to explain something that can’t be explained it has to be understandable and it can cause some conformism too, on people who see the movie like a prediction of the future and not a logical thinking about where the chaos of capitalism and technology would lead the human beeings. It’s a complex and deep movie, it’s slow and don’t have too many dialogue (Kubrick prooved that dialogue it’s not so important to show something), I’m sure that people who didn’t like the movie has some trouble in dealing with the true. It’s hard to admit that Kubrick was right because normally the true hurts and this film shows a cold and amazing true. “My mind is going” that’s one of the most importants dialogue on the movie that shows a highly inteligent computer loosing his conscious, like a human brain loosing the power to fight against the wrong and unetical things on the world. I recomend this film to everybody, it has tree hours of movie and it’s important not to miss anything about the scenes, because a wrong interpratation can lead you to alienation.

Girl, interrupted

I love movies and this is one of my favorite movies. I don´t really have a reason for it, but it´s just a great movie. It´s really beatiful and it shows the friendship of the characters even tough they are not in a common enviroment. I think that this strong friendship that they have makes me think about my friends.

This movies takes place in a asylum and it shows the story about a girl that ends up there and she meets all the girls there and you get to know their lives and why they are there, and even tough they are considered crazy people they develop a great friendship and they are all normal friends like anybody else. I relate to this movie because i have with my friends the same strong friendship that the characters have.

Rick you should watch this movie to: THE CURE, it´s about friendship to and it´s really cute, if you can find it.

A walk to remember

Well, I don´t have a reason why this is my favourite movie. For  certainly, it  is not, but I liked it very much so I  will  talk about  it.

This movie  is  about the most popular  guy in the school( Shane West) , who  was arrogant and used to make bad  things  to the others. Then, as a punishment, he must participate on a school drama; that´s when he meets a girl ( Mandy Moore) and learn many things he didn´t know about life and, he falls in love with her.

Nevertheless, she has a  secret that implies on her not being able to have relationships…  the  reason I can´t say, you should watch the movie, but you have to keep  in mind  that probably you will cry, the end  is  very  sad.

The point is that this movie  shows  how  life  can  be good in the  same  time  as  simple, and  how a human being can be  changed because of love.