Thursday, October 16, 2008

Behold the epiphany of unfiltered news

Two guys came up with a software that points out bias news. 

Thank you.

Thursday, October 9, 2008


You said, "I love you," I said, "Wait." I was going to say, "Take me," you said, "Go away." The movie that changed my life could be resumed to the quote above. A film about love, jealousy, pretension, and the unpredictability of human feelings. Truffaut's masterpiece cannot be underestimated, though. It's not just about a love triangle and "bros before hos". Of course the characters are interesting - and completely fictitious -, and the plot, of course, is very entertaining, but what actually caught me in this movie was the way Truffaut conducted the twists and ironies in the story, sprinkling it with wild actions and radical images - Catherine's whimsical ways, mostly. And how the scenes are visually constructed following the actual facts, with sudden ups and downs, rough cuts, how narration is so extensively explored and how sensible and beautiful some o f the scenes are, like the most famous one of the movie, seen above.
Personally, "Jules et Jim" changed the way I perceived and appreciated films, for it was the first time I saw something so different from everything else, so powerful and subtle at the same time. It also changed the way I perceived people, love and relationships, in that order. People seemed more human, more likely to be mean - not by meaning to harm anyone, but by beiyng selfish. Love seemed much deeper than I had ever realized: it struck me as something impossibly controlable and wild, that no one could even fully comprehend. Relationships became much more fragile for me, and I was able to see the thin line between healthy and sick, and the result of years upon years of frustration, confusion and madness.