CENTRO COLOMBO AMERICANO
MOVIE REVIEW
FROM: RAUL GIRALDO
FOR: JUAN MANUEL MONTOYA
V.
TITLE: MOULIN ROUGE
DIRECTOR: BAZ LUHRMANN
LEAD ACTORS:
NICOLE KIDMAN
EWAN MCGREGOR
JHON LEGUIZAMO
JIM BROADBENT
RICHARD ROXBURGH
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2001
I – GENERAL INFORMATION.
This movie is a close portrait of
the depression years lived in a very specific country “France” and in a very
cultural activity “the theater”. With the arrival of the economic crisis, the
artistic movement was quite affected for the lost of attendance for the artistic piece that they had prepared
for a long time so, what could the theater crew do to survive under those
extremely difficult circunstances?
II- PLOT SUMMARY
Harold Zibler, owner and manager
of a famous artistic show has been living a very economical situation to
continue presenting attractive shows in the “ Moulin Ronge”. The final show and the daily life of the
characters got to be a parallel, represented by the crew and specially by four
characters: zibler, satine, Christian and the duke who loses the final battle, where there is a
mixture of the real life with the artistic show.
III- ACTING
The actors made a very attractive
parallel between real and theater lives, where there are jealousy, envy,
passion, suspect, treason, happiness, bohemian, failure, success, and death.
Moulin Rouge was nominted for
several Oscar prizes, although it did not win anyone of them.
The characters fulfilled my
expectations as a product of the music used to convince and express very
special feelings.
The characters are believable
in the way they perform their scenes to
show ups and downs of the teather’s
activity specially when they are affected by the lack of economical
support.
IV- FILM TECHNIQUES
The movie is constantly designed
with landscapes around “Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge and Paris city”.
There are very attractive scenes
that take place in the night, well accompanied by some orchestras.
The soundtrack takes into account
a great variety of songs from different times, they complete the feelings of
dialogues and shows.
Dancers’ customs are according
with the kind of music danced and the shows played by actors and actresses.
V- FILM MESSAGES
The story takes place at the end
of a century, and the theater with its bohemian was there, accompanied by the
economical crisis that are very common in a competitive system in which the
high-class tries to overbear the other ones.
Those messages are
convincing due to the lack of khowledge
that we have about the night activities whose shows always go on, keeping the city alive for tourists and night
workers.
VI- We are quite accustomed to
see Americn gun films, where weapons, fights and bombs are always the bases
of a conflict, so it is important for them to have a brave hero that solves those
difficult situations in a very particular way, sometimes feelings and special
circunstances of daily lives are not takien into account. So, it is very
necessary to have other view of the human conflict, as a product of the
circunstances.
Destiny does not always arrive as
we dream or want, then to see this kind of movies, it depends on the way you
have been trained or educated
Thanks
Medellín, May 2 - 2014
Mayo 20 de 2014
CENTRO
COLOMBO AMERICANO
For: José Manuel Montoya
From: Raúl Giraldo C.
Course: Integrated
Skills
The Future
Technology is taking
us to unimagined and unexplored realities that could let to know huge maching
in relation with their physical capacities.
The stars knowledge
and the space race will continue being a goal to reach with the help of
fantastic magnifying glasses and hard memories of the computers whose chips are
physically smaller.
There will be new
galaxies and spatial stations where man could stay to continue his research, in
that aspect, robots will play a key role in data transmission, information
storage and know ledge assessment related to specific in formations.
Daily activities at
home will be automatically done by virtual machines or robots, while men and
women do their own Jobs in medium or great enterprises, however I don’t reach
to imagine the future video games extending their violence to real life must of
the time, new technologies mean “progress”, however I am not so optimistic when
I consider the family, whose members are
more divorce in further places without
physical or spiritual support, I hope the oral and written speech will continue
among the families in spite of the slang and orthography used by the virtual
clients, I hope books do not disappear, as a result of the E-books sale to
finish:
-What do we wart of
internet completely surrounded of advertisement commercial enterprises, and
watching cameras everywhere?
-All those internet
users who are always inside, don’t take time to go out for seeing how the world
goes on. Homes and enterprises are limited by screens and websites, is the cyber
conversation the most appreciated tool to be near the other ones?
-Are people quitting
the city walkings and parades to replace them for a mechanical contact?, It
means frozen subjects before a screen?
The economical power
dominates through the use of many gadgets, showing itself as the owner of the
wholesale, without many cultural or spiritual possibilities, I hope machines don’t stop real and practical
uses of the brain.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
For: Juan Manuel
Montoya V.
From: Raúl Giraldo C.
Integrated Skills –
Centro Colombo Americano
This movie deals with
the medical prescriptions of drugs that AIDS patients need and the control
exerted by the FDA, that forbids very frequently the use of essential drugs to
eradicate the symptons of this mortal disease.
The star character of
the movies dares to defy those laws that forbid the use of some special
products and fights against the health minister to prove the advantages of
those products. I want to rescue the courage of current people trying to argue
against government decisions.
Many world
pharmaceutical enterprises monopolize the control around sale and distribution
of products in countries that are developing their own production, stopping
research as a right.
Finally the movies
leaves a reflection around homophobic people who are continuously discriminated
in public or private places. Gradually we become a ware that homosexuals,
lesvians and transsexuals have the some rights as all the human beings
May 15th -
2014
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