papais roqueiros e sua prole

"Bem que a gente podia ficar assim pra sempre! Sem que soubessem, o mesmo pensamento cruzou a mente de ambos ao mesmo tempo. Para sempre seria impossível, mas eles continuariam abraçados ali no sofá por um longo tempo."

ARGEL; Martha. O livro dos contos enfeitiçados.

Algumas preferências cinematográficas, que não são únicas e exclusivamente essas. São essas que me recordo agora, talvez delas nem me lembre mais daqui um tempo. Só pra registrar, pra ver daqui uns anos.

estranhamente feliz, sem conseguir conter o sorriso no rosto. E agora?

Would you take your pants off for a Flash Mob?

(matéria capa da edição de janeiro de 2010 do jornal GLOBALINK, feito pelos alunos de journalism da International Language Schools of Canada)


Yumi Miyake

Don’t be scared by FLASH MOBs...yes, they certainly have an element of DANGER and MADNESS but they also give us a sense of community. We can meet new people, be connected with them and have fun. Maybe you don’t know exactly what a Flash Mob is, but probably you have already seen one or heard about one recently. A Flash Mob is an art performance, when a large group of people suddenly appear in a public place, usually in big cities around the world, perform an unusual action and then quickly disperse. An example of a Flash Mob is Worldwide Pillow Fight Day, which is going to happen on Saturday April 3rd 2010 in big cities around the world including Berlin, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Vancouver and others.



A recent Flash Mob that happened here in Canada was “No Pants Day,” on January 10, when a group of 30 people took off their pants at Broadway SkyTrain Station in Vancouver. Marco Tulio Rezende, a Brazilian student from ILSC said, “I was in the Sky Train (at) the time they did that. It was funny. It starts like a strange thing and after everybody started to laugh.”



But how do these almost spontaneous Mob meetings get organized so quickly? People interested in Flash Mobs organize these events via social media like Facebook or Twitter and via e-mail. Most of the time they organize Flash Mobs for no political, ideological or environmental reason. But there are exceptions. Once, Marco joined an environmental Flash Mob event at a beach in Recife, his native city. “It wasn’t me that organized it but it was some friends from my city who did it… (It) was surfers against the government that was destroying the beach and building things so we did an SOS in the sand,” he affirms.



People get more interested in being part of a Flash Mob if there is a purpose behind it. Rafaela Santos de Paula, another ILSC Brazilian student said, “If it is something to help people to raise money for some good reason, yeah, I’m sure I would be part of it because we need to help the country, help everybody who is around us.”



But what about the danger element of Flash Mobs? If there is no reason or the action is something weird like taking your pants off, people still get scared…they may have fun but there is a frightening aspect as well. Marco Riccardo Donà, an Italian student who lives in Switzerland, said, “Have fun yes, but meet new people, no. They are crazy!” Rafaela said, “Meeting new people without their pants it is a little funny but yes, to have fun it is ok, but to meet people without pants only if you were a pervert or something like this!”



People have a lot of imagination when they were questioned about what theme and location they would choose if they were organizing a Flash Mob here in Vancouver. Rafaela said, “The theme will be Run for Your Life because Run for Your Life it is supposed to be the end of the world and the place will be Robson Street because there, it is full of people and they would be crazy saying, “Oh My God, what’s happening” and they would be screaming and running, like a bunch of crazy guys.” Marco Donà said, “No Shorts Day. Or No T-shirt Day. And the location would be ILSC School!”

Sempre podemos tirar algo de bom de situações nada agradáveis, certo? Pois bem... encarar 10 horas de voo de SP pra Toronto depois 5 hrs de voo Toronto-Vancouver não é muito fácil... o que eu fiz, então??? Assisti a vários filmes (NOVOS) interessantes... Muitos mesmo, hollywoodanos... o legal é que sao muitas as opções e não dá pra ver todos,porém um me chamou a atenção e eu já o conhecia, só estava faltando me deparar com ele por aí...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZXKLtDb-k

Where the wild things are, ou em portugues: onde moram os monstros...
acho q alguns de voces se lembram do desenho, do livro, enfim... os esquisitos como eu sentirão lá no fundo que conhecem esses monstros de algum lugar. De algum lugar na memória, de algum lugar dentro de voces mesmos...
Eu tenho queda por filmes esquisitassos, baseados em livros, e com essa trilha sonora indie rock de tirar o folego. Nao sei pq, mas gosto... essa coisa de filme aparentemente pra criança, mas pra criança nao tem é nada...
Ponto positivo pro filme: a musica eh do Arcade Fire, banda canadense que eu já conhecia (mas que nao sabia q era canadense) e como eu to voltando pro Brasil mais canadense do que nunca... gamei.
Enfim, se pelo trailer vc eh daqueles que pensa: mas que merda eh essa???? nao assista....
Só assista se vc pensar: hey,tenho um monstrinho desse dentro de mim... é, a vibe eh por ai mesmo...

“You should know up front: this is not a love story, this is a story about love”

500 Days of Summer (2009)

Since I discovered the trailer in the first semester of 2009, I fell in love with this movie. “What a nice soundtrack,” I thought. We can listen to The Smiths, The Temper Trap, Feist, Carla Bruni (yes, the First Lady of France), Regina Spektor and a lot of good music that fits perfectly in the scenes. This is the first movie that Marc Webb directed. He is a music video director, and I think that can explain why the soundtrack is so good and diverse.

The movie is not a common romantic comedy, it is unpredictable and not just like so many others we can see everyday at the movie theatres. I’m head over heels in love with the 2 lead characters: Tom (Joseph Gordon– Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel)! The characters meet at work. He is a writer of greeting cards and she is an executive secretary. From there begins a very realistic relationship: one that we see and experience in our own lives, nowadays. The couple exchange intense experiences and feelings… but nothing is official, they are together but they are not boyfriend/girlfriend.

The movie is unusual because of the way they have sequenced the events. For example, in most romantic movies, the break up happens towards the end. Not in this film, though. In the beginning of this movie, Tom gets dumped by Summer and sees himself lost without her. We can all relate to this. Who has never got dumped before? Or dumped someone themselves? The beginning of the film is so different. The end of a relationship we know well: the number of words decreasing, the distance between you and your partner increasing and the certainty that nothing is forever. It is only then, when it is too late, we realize how much the other has always been a projection of our ideal love.

As movie critic Sean Axmaker says, the movie reminds the viewer of the famous saying ….”It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”

500 Days of Summer shows us what some people keep forgetting: every relationship is different. Each person is different. There are many ways to love and be loved. As the trailer says: “You should know up front: this is not a love story, this is a story about love.”