A favourite film, by our favourite bird, the one and only Cockatoo!

I chose to talk about a film that really moved me, its name is Tetro.

 

This is the story of a young man, Bennie, who go to Buenos Aires to meet his half-brother, Angelo.

Nine years ago, Angelo had cut the links with his family to write.

 

 His new name is Tetro, the diminutive of his family name, Tetrocini.

Bennie wants to know why is brother has cut the links with his family and know the story of his mother, who is in the coma since nine years.

One day, Bennie discover the beginning of a novel that Angelo have written.

Here start the conflicts with his brother. The themes of family and quest of identity are important.

 

 

I love this film because the suspense is always present and the idea of the scenes in colour for the flashbacks whereas the scenes in the present are in black and white is very interesting.

 

The arts like theatre, music, writing and cinema are very important in the story and I like the films about arts in general.

 

Moreover, we can see the sensibility of the different persons, who do more than play the scene, they live the scenes with their personnalities they have in reality.

 

 

 

Today, in our school...

 

 

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A Tv series, by Guigz18

 

 

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series.

He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies.

What is interesting about this series is that you can see the real problems between Mexico and the United States but mainly the problem of drugs.

At first we don’t expect the main character, Walter White, to become a drug producer but progressively we perceive that the man can really withdraw into himself and do things which he didn’t feel able to do himself before that.

 Indeed there is a real decadence during the series, it’s why I recommend everyone to watch this because actors play perfectly their role and we always want to know more.

Personally I’m watching the third season (there are 5 seasons for the moment) because I discovered it one month ago and I felt ashamed but now I feel proud to know this series.

There is a certain moral dimension in this series, indeed it's clear that for the family or even people that we love, humans are able to do risky actions even if that's illegal.
 

What a coincidence! I'm into Season 3 too, right now!

As for me, I like the moral dilemmas and the black humour in this unusual TV Series... Mrs P.

"Love me if you Dare" ("Jeux d'Enfants" ), by Lil

 

Hello Bloggers !

 

 

I choose to talk about a film that moved me : Love Me If You Dare

The film begins in Liège in Belgium, where a little girl, Sophie, is being bullied by other children. Only a bus driver and a boy, Julien, help her collect her books that the others have thrown into a puddle.

 

To cheer Sophie up, Julien gives her a small tin box, a gift from his fatally ill mother. Because it is important to him, he asks her to lend it back to him from time to time.

 

 

 

 As Julien wants the box back at the moment he gave it to her, Sophie demands proof of how important it is to him. Julien disengages the handbrake of the bus without hesitation, and the bus full of children rolls down a hill. Their game has begun: the box changes its owner after each completed dare.

 

Between the son of wealthy Belgian parents and the daughter of poor Polish immigrants a lasting friendship develops. As children they misbehave in school, wreak havoc on a wedding, and ask silly tasks of each other. As teenagers their lovers have to suffer because of their dares. Meanwhile, the two friends ignore any consequences or punishment during their game.

While they are always looking for the next kick, a love is slowly evolving between the protagonists. Not wanting to admit it, they divert their attention from it by even more extreme dares.

 

 

 

As young adults, Julien tells Sophie that he wants to get married, only later revealing that he means to someone else. The climax is reached when Sophie interrupts Julien's wedding, after which he is cast out by his father and Sophie is nearly killed during another game. Julien returns to marry his wife, and Sophie declares that they will not see each other for ten years.

Ten years pass, and Julien is married with two children. Sophie has also married, her husband a famous soccer star. A successful Julien admits that he has not forgotten Sophie, though he assumes that she has forgotten him. On the night of Julien's tenth wedding anniversary, Sophie sends a message to him, indicating that the game is back on. Julien and Sophie meet for a brief moment in the midst of another dare, yet it is enough to remind Julien that their game is "better than life itself." After a dramatic accident, Julien and Sophie finally reunite, despite the protestations of their spouses.

 

 

 

I think this movie touched me because it is a romantic film in which time passes, life passes but their love is always with the time

My favourite quotation is "That's how we won the game. Together. Happy. And there, at the bottom of the concrete, we finally shared our childhood dream: the dream of an endless love ...
Love Me If You Dare, Julien."

　
AND YOU .. DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE QUOTE FROM A MOVIE ?

(a personal favourite of mine is: "Holly, here's your f****** landing light. WHOOO"..... from Die Hard II!- Mrs P.)

The Wave, a German film, by Agie

For this new article we had to write something about a film, a song, a play or a book that moved us and we had to explain why.

This time I chose to talk about a dramatic and really captivating movie which is « The wave » (German :  « Die Welle »). The story of this film, directed by the German Dennis Gansel, is based on a real social experiment : The Third Wave (experimented by Ron Jones in 1967).

 

It happens in Germany three generations after the Second World War and it begins in a high-school, in which there's a project week. This time, they have to discuss about anarchy and autocracy (I.e when the supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person), more precisely about dictatorship.

 

Two classes are chosen and Rainer Wenger, the teacher in command of the autocracy group, is in front of the absolute certainty of his students: they don't believe that a dictatorship could be once again established in modern Germany. Wenger decides to start an experiment to demonstrate how people can be naive and manipulated. At the beginning all the students are involved in this project and give their full attention to the teacher.

A real organization is setting up and this project becomes a life size role-play. A community sees the day: the Wave. They have a salute, uniforms, a symbol, common values and rules that are also putting into practice outside of the classroom and the school. The community spirit and the discipline turn to a real political party. As soon as the third experimental day, persecution and exclusion appear: students are too much involved in it. The teacher loses the control and the situation is degenerating. After a violent fight between Wave's members and non-members, Wenger decides to stop the experiment but... it is too late: the Wave is out of control.

 

 

Well, I chose to talk about this movie because I think it's really relevant and it shows perfectly how a society or a few people can be manipulated and can reach to the point where they impose their rules and ideas violently.

I watched this movie three times and I was moved similarly every time. This film gives a kind of fear feeling because it shows how easily an autocracy could reappear nowadays.  Maybe we shouldn't think that this way of living is something definitively gained and should pay more attention to it.

 

 

 

A film I love, by Jules

The Green Mile

 

 

  The Green Mile is an American drama film released in 1999 and directed by Frank Darabont .

The film is based on Stephen King's novel which has the same name.

 

 

[The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single volume work. The book is an example of magical realism.]

 

The story is told in flashback and narrated by Paul Edgecomb who now lives in an old-age home six decades after working for a long time as the head guard on Death Row at a Southen Prison named Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

Back to 1935, during the Great Depression, Paul Edgecomb, reflects on how he developed an unusual relationship with one of the inmate, sentenced, who is probably innocent. John Coffey, the inmate, is an African-American man who is convicted for the murder of two little girls.

 

 

But the thing is that Coffey has strange powers, both miraculous and mysterious … And the creepy persons in the prison have their own point of vue on his gifts. 

 

This film is one of my favourite and I think it's one of the best film ever. If you've never seen it, I recommend it to you. The first time I've seen it, I was so into it that people could talk, shout, cry that I didn't bother anything, all I wanted was to know the end.

 

And … the end made me cry, I couldn't stop !

 

After seeing this film you feel, just for a few minute, like if you had to take care of the people you love, well you know it's like when you go out from the cinema, you always feel a bit strange , here I felt like this : strange and shaky at the same time …

All this to say, that this film is incredible . 

Starting soon, a new series of articles...

...on a book, a film, music, paintings, poems they love, by the 2nd Years.

 

I'm looking forward to reading them, what about you?

 

Mrs P.