Day 3: Bridge of Spies by Steven Spielberg

(Spoilers coming!)

2015. Im not a Spielberg virgin. First one was E.T (1982) and after that, Schindlers List (1993). This one esta entre sus más recientes films. El ciclo de cine ruso en letras se puso más “Spielberg” y la coloco en la ultima fecha del ciclo. Bastante buena. Y tal como lo menciono el comentarista de la fecha, Jorge Lossio, retrara muy bien el ambiente de “guerra fría” entre USA y la URSS. James B. Donovan fue todo el “core” del film, y quizás es porque soy de la facultad de Derecho, but I love every minute of him being a lawyer. Todo el film se desenvuelve sobre el intercambio de espias entre estas dos naciones. And one man was the one who arranged all that. At first, the movie seems a bit like that “ordinary man” joke that Abel tells Donovan. But then, Abel shares the whole story. About a man who wont stop fighting, who will always be standing, taking whatever the world throws at him, just likes that scene at the Count of Montecristo (2002) where the kid doesnt care what the muggers do, because he can take it, and Donovan can take anything and still be a standing man. I thought maybe this whole film was going to be a little cliche, because the whole plot has been done before but this “exchange” of spies hasnt been done before, not like this. Even the CIA seem kind of like a silly joke, because Donovan was the only one who could get Abel to get the deal done or not. Everyone gets suck in the atraction of his brightness. But hes still a “family man” who forgets to bring the jam from the fake trip he was having in the UK. The ending was the end of a storyline and no surprises there, but you get the feeling that something emotional happened, and that “the wall” was the reason many were killed.

 

Happy day of watching films?

Good friday?

Vamos al mundial!!!

PS. Hope Day 4 will come soon, maybe even tomorrow!

-Lizzie

Day 2: The Return of Michael Myers by Dwight H. Little

(Spoilers coming!)

 

1988. I’m a Dwight virgin. But not a Halloween virgin if I may say. The first one is pretty good for me (Disponible en la mediateca de pucp, you guys!). Dwight is coming from making Getting Even (1986) and Bloodstone (1988). And even when sequels are sometimes a copy of the original thing, sometimes they can always surprise you. And maybe not surprise you that much, I thought it was funny Jamie picked that costume, just like that one Michael chose the day he murder his sister. It was a new resource to me that they choose this kid because the original old protagonist didn’t want to play her old character, Laurie? And the presence of Rachel, new old fellow, reminds you of Laurie because she isn’t fucking every weekend or doesn’t want to. And her “bae” prefers to “score” with one that will actually fuck. They both end up dead pretty fast, after the police force of course. The whole chasing was a bit off with Michael always being able to chase him even when you didn’t even saw him getting into the truck that kill the old “bar brothers” que querían ser vigilantes pero luego al asesinar a un conocido se dan cuenta que no pueden ir a lo salvaje de cacería. The storyline was expected, its a average horror film, pero lo que más me impresiono fue, again as I said before, el final. Jamie, the adorable, bullied kid, thanks to his well-known murderer uncle, and scared to death because she thought Rachel was dead, and when she thought the killer was done killing, he comes back for more. But between all that pain, and sorrow, and desperation, she looks at him, dead in the ground, alone, and decides to take his hand. Because she feels pity for him. But he isn’t dead, and after another round, he ends up buried. Where “he belongs” according to our old doc, the psychiatrist. And that little girl, ends up attacking her foster mom. With a pair of scissors. Just like his uncle. And you can see the horror in the eyes of the doc, the sheriff, and of Rachel too. Jamie has become like his uncle, because of the “dramatic” event of being chase by a killer with such ferocity. I thought it was insane. But it was pretty unforgetable to me.

 

And there are still more sequels,  don’t know if i will check them out. Perhaps.

Good saturday, try to drink only the same alcohol the whole night, less of a headache, and if you read the whole night, try to read something fun too, like a novel, or a comic book, spiderman is pretty funny.

 

I’m out!

 

-Curly

Day 1: Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick

 

Spoilers coming!

1964. Kubrick made the screenplay. Esta movie es despues de Spartacus (1960) y Lolita (1962). I consider myself a Kubrick virgin. Porque solo he visto A Clockwork Orange (1971). Y esta movie me gusto mucho mas que la ultima. Es una satira, y esta llena de momentos irónicos sobre la vida like “Dont fight here, this is the war room” o como el doc Strangelove no puede evitar levantar su mano en saludo nazi, y llamar al presidente estadounidense “mein führer” un par de veces. Como caracterizan a los rusos like drunk people, cuando su principal representante ruso tiene una charla con el presidente estadounidense ebrio, and they both look like kids talking in the park. Con jokes como el “coommander” cuyo nombre es Jack D. Ripper, like Jack the Ripper, ha perdido la cordura completamente y somete al oficial britanico. Small detail, Peter Sellers retrara al presidente estadounidense, al doc Strangelove, y a este britanico. And you cant even notice it. Luego esta el efusivo general Buck que considera que los comunistas pueden dar excusas para todos y que en realidad atacar primero con “misiles” es la mejor idea.  After all of the nonsense, todos los soldados americanos que tenia misiles con objetivos rusos son retornados a sus bases militares, salvo uno, bastante significativo cuyo “piloto” general es un cowboy en su totalidad. Que no piensa en nada mejor que quedarse sobre el misil cuando este esta “despegando” hacia su objetivo, and hes screaming like a cowboys while all hes about to die. With a smile on his face. And with his cowboy hat I think. The whole film ends with fireworks of course. And where every male has 10 females to “reproduce” because now they are living in caves. For 100 years. Por la radioactividad, you guys. Con todo ese tono algo “serio” ante las bromas del film, lo disfrutas. Y con todo, la audencia de cachimbos o casi cachimbos de letras con varias risas le hizo justicia al film.

Its a very enjoyable film and please watch it. If you have the time. And like old films? Wont regret it. La pude ver gracias al ciclo de cine ruso de letras. (Info here http://facultad.pucp.edu.pe/generales-letras/ciclo-cine-ruso-cien-anos-la-revolucion/ )

-Curly

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