THE IMPOSSIBLE (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012)

Nothing worth doing can be done overnight.

We do not know what is waiting for us, what life is preparing for us so, do not wait for things happen, just make them happen. Now we are good but it is more than probable than tomorrow or in a couple of days our personal situation will not be the same, either better or worse. But not the same so when we have an opportunity to do something, no matter how important it is, just do it.
For me, this movie - apart from what everybody is able to perceive when watching it - is talking about this. There are few moments in which Lucas (Tom Holland) asks her mother to play or do whatever. His mother's answer is Tomorrow or Then, but... what is that then?

Regarding the effects I think this film is quite realistic in a way. It perfectly portrays certain aspects of the story that make the viewer feel that actions are really taking place. Too much explicit in some occasions but I think it is nice for a film if the director wants the story to touch people. And The Impossible is definitely touching. Of course, the fact that it is based on a real story may make the spectator be even more involved in the movie and the characters, whose performance is likely to provoke emotions among viewers.

If you do not cry with this movie or at least are not certainly moved by it, you are not human at all.

SKINS (Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, 2007-2012)

 

Seasons 1 and 2

 

Seasons 3 and 4 

 

Seasons 5 and 6

 

 

Life can be very easy but it can also be very complicated.

Love, sex, frienship, drugs, party, alcohol, fashion, lies, reality, studies, family. Problems. All those real ingredients that can compose a teenager's life.



HOOLIGANS (Lexi Alexander, 2005)

When you feel that you are part of something, part of somebody; that is because somebody is also feeling that he/she is part of you. FRIENDS is not a word you can use to refer to everybody you know in the world. It is bigger, stronger, better. You can only use friends when you really have that feeling, that sensation that you are part of something that both, your friend and you, have created. It does not matter what's the point that links you. The important thing is that there is something that makes you feel what you feel, figth, trust and carry on come what may.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Tim Burton, 2005)

Our weaknesses can make us stronger, but our greed can have the opposite consequence. We can be hard people with many aspirations and possibilities in life, but if try to have everything and if we think everybody is going to achieve for us those things we desire, we are terribly wrong. Nobody will do nothing for us and that is something we should learn since we were born.
For those children whose parents spoil and give whatever they ask for, life is not going to be easier but the opposite. It is better to learn how to survive by oneself before it is too late for us.

CHAPLIN (Richard Attenborough, 1992)

Charles Chaplin was a very famous British actor and director during the Silent period cinema, who was determined to continue doing silent movies even when the talkies had started to be important. This movie, in a way, has made me remember this man's career not only because it is a biography of Chaplin but also because of the introduction of some of the movies he made, which were of course silent - most of them- , which gives a really interesting contrast to the film. On the one hand, the film itself is a modern film more or less contemporary which was made according to the style of modern cinema. However, as I have already said, some clips of Charles Chaplin's movies are included so there is a melting between both styles of performance. This enriches the movie and allows the spectator to do a kind of comparison between the two ways of acting.



As the movie is a documentary, it has not provoked too many feelings as other films may have done, but it is very interesting regarding the comparison and contrast that I mentioned above. Also, it gives some details about the life of Chaplin and what I would like to remark concerning this, is how he fought to do silent movies, how he fought for what he believed although the rest of people were against. I think, and probably all of you too, that this is admirable because he did exactly what he wanted, although that decreased his income and his popularity.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

I suppose that everybody has a reason for doing what he/she does. Some people have honest reasons and purposes. Others just go for hurting other people. But at the end, everybody has his/her personal reasons for carrying out his/her actions. Besides, appearances can be deceptive and what people do is not always a sign that they are bad persons or good. Because, as I have already said, at the end everything happens according to some reasons, and not all these reasons are necessarily bad.


 

SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese, 2010)

"This place makes me wonder: which would be worse, to live as a monster or die as a good man?" I do not think I can find the right words to describe this movie. So, I will only ask you a couple of questions which can sum up in a few words what this film more or less wants the spectator wonder. What would you do if you discover that you've lived only lies and that you are exactly the kind of person you would never want to be? What if you discover that being mad is better than being aware of your reality?