Mónica, a friend of mine in México, sent me a link to a documentary produced by reevo.org which I highly recommend to watch. Specially for those who are interested in learning.
For me the documentary made resonance to my research in HCG. I confess this research has been my life, my dream. Maybe for that reason, when I watched the documentary some emotional tears escape, because it is full of truth:
Learning is fun and enjoyable.
We can do incredible things by enriching individual’s dreams, and desire to live.
There is much more, but my personal summary is: Life is learning and learning is life, and we can enjoy A LOT while we are alive! 🙂
This is the first book of a trilogy writen by Larsoon that I read. I bought the trilogy last year when I was living in Bristol, UK, with no time to read them, but I have heard several comments about them, then I got the books when the opportunity showed up. One day I will catch up, is always my hope 🙂 .At this moment, I am overload of things to do, which freezes me, then I decide to read the book as my escape and possibility to relax.
The reading for this particular book started last Sunday’s evening. The book begins slow and it did not immerse me. It was boring. I pushed me to read it because I saw a movie trailer that convinced me to continue reading.
At the beginning two stories are described, which later converge. The one of a journalist, Blomkvist, who is hired to solve a crime which took place 36 years ago with the excuse to write the family memoirs. At this moment he is living in a turmoil of events. The other story is with a girl in her early twenties which work as a private investigator, Salander. She has problems adapting into society, we do not know much of her past except an event that let us know that she has had a difficult life, and she was qualified as doomed and the state should take care of her. She faces sexual abuse and learned to defend herself, loosing any trust on the police. She has photographic memory and it is very good with computers. She is a personality that one is discovering across the book.
When Henrik Vanger, who wanted to solve a crime in his family, starts to describe his family’s past the book turns interesting for me. As Salander said: everybody has secrets. It is when Blomkvist starts to decipher new clues of the old mystery and joins efforts with Salander when the book turns intense and addictive, at least for me. Then, all Thursday and Friday after work I could not stop reading until I finish it.
I got the impression that the book pays attention to different details, from the second war, to sado-masoquit mentality, to the psychological damage that children faced when they live in dysfunctional families independently if the family has money or not.
Summarizing, the book starts slow and boring, but later it triggers a wide set of emotions such as intrigue, suspense, disgust, impotence, sadness, surprise and even some laughs.
Film: Dresden Language: German (original) Genre: drama, war, romance
I just watched Dresden Der Film and it created an impact. I am not a moviegoer neither an expert on films. I watch films just when I feel like it and I rank them according on how much the film manages to get me involve in it. I know a strange ranking system, but that is how it works inside me. If the film triggers my inner, then it is a good film for me. Once the film enters the category of a good film then I can analyze why and how it moved me. As I said, I follow a strange method or as Mónica tells me, I have my carolingio language 😛
As I am collecting in this blog, at some level, the things that influence me, after watch this film, I decide I should start to mention some films too.
By chance I start to watch Dresden. It turns out that this is the first film I watch from the WWII produced by Germans. For me the film was intense and let me thinking a lot about my Germans. During and after the film, made resonance what I have read in the book of Berlin at war.
My focus of attention in the film was not the romantic triangle, which is the fictional narrative in the film. I was astonished by the historical events that the film transmits, and its message in general. Later I found the review of C. Markuss explaining why the screen is excellent. In his words:
“I found the screenplay to be excellent, at times combining satire with pathos, and the more evil aspects of the Third Reich are cleverly woven into the film – the German nurse married to a Jew, both hoping the war will end soon, the corrupt Nazi Gauleiter and his officials long on rhetoric but short on integrity and political awareness as Germany slowly tips into the abyss, and the doctors who illegally trade morphine for tickets and passports to Switzerland for themselves and their families. The scenes of destruction and suffering make compelling viewing, and the use of British actors to play the RAF personnel and show their point of view makes for a balanced film, particularly the scene showing German civilians lynching enemy air-crew, something also done earlier both in France and the UK on occasions. The use of Britons to play the RAF personnel also avoids those irritating foreign accents.”
It is amazing to perceive our human nature in extreme moments. Also I experience an honest respect to get a glimpse of our history, to what our ancestors have passed. Still processing…..
