SW... today

Today I went to the movies with my sister. We were between the Avengers and Mirror, Mirror. We ended up watching Mirror Mirror, which was a fantastic idea as I am obsessed with Snow White and my sister knows nothing about the super heroes.

I laughed a lot at the movie and LOVED Julia Roberts. I think she is fantastic and her character is so... mean but real, and also so cartoonish. I loved her. But... the movie not so much.

I was so sad and disappointed the apple had not an important role when the apple is crucial in every story and you basically identify Snow White not so much because of the queen, Snow White or the Dwarfs, but because of the apple...

I loved that Snow White was strong and independent without stopping to be a pretty princess. Her clothes were great all the time, and it was fantastic that she was wearing pants, but... why should she get spanked in a fight? I mean, when a dwarf spanked her, in her big dress was really different than when the prince spanked her. In the fight with the prince, it was something more sexual. He spanked her because he liked her, because she was a girl, not because they were training, or really fighting and that was part of a fight. It was more a sexist game which I didn't like at all and didn't get. Why do they paint her as a strong innocent teenager but have this little details like the spanking or the strawberry lips?

Also that, the kiss. Why should the dwarf make her look pretty, with her strawberry lips and hair in a pony tail? She was pretty and ready for her kiss. And sitting in his legs? I wasn't watching the strong Snow White today, but a teenageliving her life and kissing a boy... sitting on his lap. Any teen sitting on the lap of any boy.  Disappointing.

Oh, just two more things.I hated the song at the end and the girl wasn't my favorite for being Snow White.

I think those were my major complaints.

On the possitive side, Julia Roberts, in both roles was amazing. It was a funny and simple movie. I laughed a lot. And it was a colorful and bright movie. I would have gone with all white, and more european references rather than American, but it was nice and fun, and I loved that the queen had HER color (gold). I loved all the clothings, the parties, the beauty treatment (the bees made me laugh)...

I love the colors, the scenography, the clothings and the photography of the picture.

Watch it. You'll have a good time.

Hugs and kisses,

Orqui

The Beaver

It seems rain will never stop, at least not this summer. I have never been really fond of summer, at least not like normal summers. Something always happens, it's a transition period for me in which i lose something, in order to gain something, I guess, but I never know what I'm gainning.
I bet the only great thing about summer are movies. There are lots of movies, specially movies for children, although not the only ones, and I love going to the cinema and forgetting myself for a couple of hours, in the middle of the dark, where nobody cares if my hair is perfect or I'm just a mess. Where you are taken to another world and are thinking about different things that your usual, or where you can cry as you relate what's happening in there to an idea fixed in your head.

Today I went to the movies. Rain was hitting my sister and me since we left home since we get to the movie theatre. There were even small ice rocks!

Anyways, we finally got there, and could see "The Beaver", a strong movie in which Mel Gibson is a sad, lonely and depressed man, who once was great and now he cannot do anything but sleep. His wife cannot stand this anymore so he leaves, and buys liquor in the way. To keep the alcohol in the trunk he throws everything he's got in there to a huge trash container, but sees a beaver and decides to keep it. This is the beaver that is saving his life.

My sister made me notice that it was not really the beaver, but some instinct deep inside him, the one who made him create the beaver and get rid of it, to live.

I found this movie fascinating. I cried most part of it. It's about a man, and dreams, and being yourself, and fighting for being happy, and never giving up, and never thinking it's fine and that's the way it should be if you are not fine with what's going around. It tells you that everything depends on you. You can decide. It's your choice to live or to die, even when you continue breathing.

I liked a lot this movie. Mmm... what can I tell about the lighting? Good photography, not impressive lighting, but very well done. I mean, not full of colors or fancy places with great lighting design, but the movie... well, it had this calmed light. This light that makes you see everything in pastels, and tells you family stuff, drama movie. Every kind of movie has it's own kind of lighting, it's a way of putting you in the mood, of telling you how to feel. This kind of lighting in a terror movie would be a great mistake!

Hope you enjoy summer, I'll keep looking for a way of dealing with farewells, and rainy days and summer.

Lots of love,

Orquidea