THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

This is a myth for the history of the cinema, so I thought I couldn't live any more time withoug having watched (completely) this motion picture. And, after watching it I must admit that the awards this movie has received are totally fair. I must confess that gangster movies do not really call my attention, in fact, I do not think I have seen much more appart from this one. Anyway, this movie is amazing and it is really well done with regards of mise-en-scène (lights are really well employed) and also with regards of other aspects such as framing or sound (in fact the soundtrack of this film is quite known and famous). I really have enjoyed the character of Michael (Al Pacino), who I know will become the most important one in the next two movies. However, I should admit that I wouldn't have included his romance in Italy because I like Kay (Diane Keaton) too much and I've seen the other relationship as an infidelity to her. But, anyway, Michael is the perfect son, the one who does not know what he wants in life but what he does not like. Nevertheless, the happenings occured in the context of his family make him change his mind and his way of acting dramatically.

Don Vito Croleone (Marlon Brando) is also fundamental for this movie and plays a fantastic role which I have admired too much during the whole movie. In my opinion, despite the shady business he develops, his sentences, his way of performing and his actions themselves make the viewer to feel totally involved with him from the very first second until the end. Besides, his particular way of speaking contributes to the mystery and suspense which exist during the entire film and which characterized this great and unforgettable classic of American cinema.

THE HUNGER GAMES (Gary Gross, 2012)

Anxiety for reading and knowing MORE. This is the feeling I felt the minutes after I watched this movie. I had not read the book on which this film based so I didn't know anything about it and went to the cinema with no preconceptions or idea. That's fantastic because I felt surprised (even though some things are quite typical and I waited for them without having seen them or read the book) but anyway, I think it is quite well done and I've liked it so much. Now, I'm reading the book (The first part), just to compare and because I really loved the story and, maybe because I've already watched the movie, I think it is better than the book - although the book is really good too. I don't think this story is as unrealistic as it is possible to think, because it is a perfect comparison - as well as an hiperbole- to the world in which we live in. In my opinion, that's why it has so publicity and people like it so much. At the end, it tells something that we live everyday. If you have money you can live with no worries. If you don't, the rulers of this world managed us as they want. Don't you really think that is reality?

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (Eric Bress and J.Mackye Gruber, 2004)

What would you do if you could change your past? How do you think your life would be if you changed something that happened some years ago and which you did not really like? Is this really the solution to our problems? To change the past in order to change our present and our future? Or at least the present of others... Just imagine that it would be possible for you to change some aspects of your past that marked your life forever. Just think in it. If you changed those events the rest of your life wouldn't have been as it really was, but at the same time you would have those happenings in your mind, even though for the rest of the people they would have never occured. So, what would it be your reality if you knew what really happened but you changed so and as a consequence, the reality for the rest changes? For me this movie is quite shocking. My feelings after watching it are not possible to be explained. Confusion, surprise, sadness, questions... Why do we always want to change our past? Would you do it for the person you love despite the consequences? Change one thing, and change everything.

VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Woody Allen, 2008)

How must we live? Should we do those things people explect from us or just living according to no rules and being really happy? And, what is love? Is love what people tend to say? Or is it that thing that people will never know because it does not exist? And, are there conventions or standards for love to exist? I mean, can love only occur between two people or are there other possibilities? These questions can be asked after watching this weird movie. Two people who are terribly in love but who cannot live together or just going out together because they hurt each other. Two friends who fall in love with the same guy but they do not know and both have sex with him, even the one who is married. I do not think this movie really has sense but at the same time I think it has all the possible sense that a movie could have. It presents a strange relatioship between a woman, Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz), and a man, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem),who love each other but who cannot have a normal love story because they always end up killing them.

Then, two friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), from NY who go to Barcelona in summer and there they meet a man that seduces them.

As a consequence of this, Cristina falls in love with him but, due to a problem, things do not happen as they had thought and Vicky, who is going to married a young American man, falls in love with him too. From this very moment, everything changes and a story based on lies and non-logical things starts. All the events that take part in this movie may make the spectator wonder about how should we live the life and how should we react to love. Really, is there any rules to follow when talking about feelings? Why don't we just feel, live and let it be?

IN TIME (Andrew Niccol, 2011)

Rich people - no matter of what kind of coin is the one needed to be so - are the only ones who are able to live with no worries. If there were no money but time, I mean, if people paid their food, their hobbies and so one with time instead of money, life would be maybe more complicated, but at the end the result is the same. Rich people would have all the time for them to have fun whereas poor people would need to work hard, even to steal, not to eat some days... just with the purpose of surviving and get more time. And that is all. This movie could be perfectly considered a kind of metaphore of our real world. A perfect calm for those who were born surrounded by money and luxury and a fight for those who must make an effort everyday if they want to be happy or at least to be. Nowadays, quite movies are based on the same topic probably because it is a question that worries many of us. Why are there so many people with unthinkable salaries and who live in enormous houses with many people working for them while others die because they do not eat enough and work from early in the morning until late for a miserable salary? Is this really fair? I do not really think so. But, that is life and this movie represents so very clearly. That is why I like it although it is a recurrent theme in today times.