lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008

Not exactly recently but…

My last year of school was a grate year to go to the movies. During the last couple of months before giving the PSU I didn’t have to go to class that much, only the occasional test or essay. A friend of mine and I had practically the same studding schedule, so when we would catch the last function. It also helped that my friend had a car and free tickets. Those months I got to watch lots of films, some very good and some just preposterous. A particular film stuck on my retina, 3-Iron , and became one of my favorite, definitely on the top five.
3-Iron is a North Korean film released 15th of October 2004, but it got to our cinemas two years after this. Directed and written by Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring) and stared by Seung-yeon Lee (LOST) and Hyun-kyoon Lee.
This film attraction is not its plot; it’s constructed on little things and feelings, a beautiful love story, completely sublime, a very characteristic oriental narrative. The main characters share no dialog at all, their relationship is based on their loneliness and how, when together, they can overcome it.
If you are an action junkie this is definitely not your film, you’d probably find it slow and with no content. If you are a good observer, then do your self a favor and rent it, if you look a little bit further from the lack of action, you’ll find a complex and dynamic film, filled with surprises.

Assignment 4


Reviewing my classmates’ blogs, I’d have to say Daniel Castillo’s blog is my favorite one. The layout it’s clean and simple easy to read. His posts are well written, (with the obvious mistakes we second language speakers make) very clear and straightforward. One can also notice a progress in his writing skills.
What caught my attention about this blog is the art post because Klimt is one of my favorite painters. Danel’s analysis and interpretation of The Kiss it’s accurate and it shows he understands the artist’s work. My only complaint is that his lacking a picture of the painting, that would have made it much more attractive.
On his firs assignment, Daniel must have been the most sincere of all. Wikipedia is a very popular website among students because its easy to use and has all the basic information one could need. but his sincerity reflects on the following statement “but when I’m on vacation I don’t like to visit it, because it is associated with the responsibilities that you can forget during the summer.” we all feel that way but hardly any have the courage to admit it, besides it made me laugh.
He’s summery on the “anthropological news” well summarized; it had all the information of the article on a few lines.
I’d also like to mention Daniela Soto’s blog, especially her lacuerda post. it was the site that helped me learn how to play the guitar and I’d forgotten all about it until I read her blog. I’d like to abstain from commenting which is my least favorite post, the idea of bashing my classmates’ work online is not that pleasant.

Link to Daniel's blog:http://spectacularenglish.blogspot.com/