REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (Darren Aronotsky, 2000)

... Maybe this is the best way for me to describe my feelings after watching this touching and painful movie. [...]
Because I am still in shock and I don't think I can find the words to define them and definitly, if I had to express my feelings in just one word, it would be: shock.

Drugs can have very hard consequences so we should be careful. However, there are people who everyday take drugs, maybe because they are absolutely obsessed with them, maybe because they don't know. But finally, the result is always the same: problems, more problems and death; and this movie is a clear example of this.

Illness



Dependence



Madness



Death...
Great use of lights and shadows, wonderful employ of make-up and clothes and excellent editing strategies. In general, great movie but quite hard. Anyway, I recommend you to see it because it will probably leave you without words... And that's fantastic if we talk about cinema.

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY (Dennis Dugan, 2007)

What would you do just with the purpose of helping a friend?



What this movie demonstrates is that good friends really exist and may make people think about whether they would do for their friends and what would not. In addition, it may make people think in whay their friends would be capable to do for them.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person might find in the life is the security of having someone next to you that would protect, fight and do whatever for you. That is why I think the friendship is not something important in life but a really necessity for people, and this movie is a sample of this because, although it is a comedy, it also has a strong sentimental component. Not everybody would be determined to pretend homosexuality and marry you just for you to be able to keep your children with you. This is something really beautiful and definitely moving.

BABEL (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)

How to define this movie? As a weird one, alien, interesting, attractive... It presents different stories of very different people who in fact have different nationalities and languages or even ways of comunication, one of the girls is actually deaf and mute. All of these people are interconnected for one or another reason but at the same time there is a big distance between them, which is the language.

The title Babel is really well selected in my opinion because this movie deals, in a way, with the communication between people of different languages as well as the things people from different races can have in common or in contrast.

I have not found this movie especially easy to understand because it mixs several stories which at the end are parts of the same story but at the beginning is not easy to link the different cuts between one story and the other. Anyway, I consider this movie quite interesting because it shows how difficult the life can be for people and it does not matter whether these people are rich, poor, American, Arabe or Mexican, deaf, mute, both or none.

Here I leave you the trailer for you to enjoy it:

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Hello everybody!

I apology for the time I have not visited this web page but I have been quite busy with my exams and assignments so I have not found the time for watching movies and share them with you. Very soon I will re-start with my negative and positive recommendations and I hope you'll like them.

See you very soon :)