I decided to become my own movie critic not because I don't trust the ones that are paid to promote films but because a very good movie will not always be a blockbuster...
Please send your comments on movies you like and I'll definitely watch them and promote them as much as I can
Friday, March 23, 2007
CLASE MAGISTRAL
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CLASE MAGISTRAR DADA POR EL JUEZ BALTAZAR GARZON EN LA UNIVERSIDAD ARCIS EDITADO POR: Universidad Arcis
REFERENCIA: Esta vez me alejé de la linea de este blog ...como ya dije no pude evitar compartirlo con ustedes pues aqui se habla de verdades universales, verdades que traspasan fronteras, credos, culturas...es qplicable a lo que ocurrio hace mas de treinta años ... en cualquier parte del mundo, es aplicable a lo que sucedio durante el holocausto, a lo que sucede hoy en medio oriente y quizas a la vuelta de la esquina sin que nos demos cuenta o no nos importe.
Capto mi atención como una persona es capaz de olvidarse de si mismo dejar su ego de lado y preocuparse por una mujer anomina... eso es a mi modo de ver , una persona que le importa el resto, le impoerta la humanidad.
TITTLE: The Great Dictator DIRECTOR: Charles Chaplin PRODUCER: Charles Chaplin MAIN CAST: Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Jack Oakie LANGUAGE English YEAR 1940
REFERENCE The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released on October 15, 1940, it is a satire of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Chaplin's film is highly exceptional for this period (1940), when the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany, for its fearless satire and condemnation of Hitler and Nazism, and for its vivid portrayal of the plight of Jews in Europe. It holds the distinction of being both Chaplin's first "talkie", and his most commercially successful film.
MY REVIEW
A real masterpiece.. I have seen it since a child and it can always move me. As a review I'll just quote The Barber's speech also known as "Look up Hannah".
Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The Great Dictator Buy From Art.com The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...
Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are ...Look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.
Look up Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."
TITLE: Thanks for smoking YEAR: 2005 DIRECTOR: Jason Reitman PRODUCER: David O. Sacks MAIN CAST:Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott LANGUAGE: English GENRE(s): Comedy, Satire THEMES: Work Ethics, Boardroom Jungle, Members of the Press REFERENCES: Jason Reitman's adaptation of Thank You for Smoking aims its satirical slings at something much bigger than the smoking lobby. Aaron Eckhart's Nick Naylor gleefully manipulates everyone and everything in his path. While the film gets huge laughs from the audacious (though not quite totally unbelievable) sentiments Naylor expresses on behalf of the tobacco industry, it also gives this media Machiavelli a heart simply by showing that his ability to shape an argument isn't something he has to work on or think about -- it comes to him naturally. Some might think he is soulless, but it would be more accurate to say that spinning is his soul. (from answers.com)
MY REVIEW
Puzzling the way the play with the satire... it makes you really think this is not far from the truth... just see this movie and comment
