Luis Soares's Blog, page 643
April 5, 2013
April 4, 2013
Roger Ebert's reviews of "Elephant" and "The Tree Of Life".
Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" is a record of a day at a high school like Columbine, on the day of a massacre much like the one that left 13 dead. It offers no explanation for the tragedy, no insights into the psyches of the killers, no theories about teenagers or society or guns or psychopathic behavior. It simply looks at the day as it unfolds, and that is a brave and radical act; it refuses to supply reasons and assign cures, so that we can close the case and move on.
Van Sant seems to believe t...
Mark Strand - A Piece of the Storm
From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,
A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
From your book, saw it the moment it landed.
That's all There was to it. No more than a solemn waking
To brevity, to the lifting and falling away of attention, swiftly,
A time between times, a flowerless funeral. No more than that
Except for the feeling that this piece of the storm,
Which turned into nothing before your eyes, would...
April 3, 2013
Sci Fi in movies.
São muitos os filmes de ficção científica anunciados para este ano. Nem todos me despertam curiosidade mas a quantidade há-de ser sinal de alguma coisa, não? Assim de repente, temos:
Pacific Rim - De Guillermo Del Toro. Monstros gigantes, robots gigantes. Que mais pode querer um geek querer?
Star Trek Into Darkness - May all things Trek live long and prosper.
Elysium - De Neill Blomkamp, o mesmo de District 9, o que é à partida um bom sinal.
Oblivion - Tem o Tom Cruise, o que pode ser um mau sina...
