Filme review: Moulin Rouge

The Moulin Rouge is a musical about the love between a writer and a courtesan. The story happens in a cabaret named Moulin Rouge, located in Paris. Christian, played by Ewan McGregor, is a young writer who dreams about freedom, beauty, truth and love. He starts writing a play for a group of actors and, to get it approved, he reads it to Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. She is the most beautiful courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, known as the Sparkling Diamond. She dreams about being an actress and decides to do anything to make it true, even seducing a duke. However, a misunderstanding happens and, when Christian reads his play for her, she believes that he’s the duke! He immediately falls in love with her, but they can’t stay together because she is already promised for the duke. Satine falls in love with Christian too, and they become lovers. One day, after some argues with both men she is seeing for jealousy, she decides to run away with Christian. However, she discovers that she’s suffering from tuberculosis, what means that she’ll die soon.
The songs chosen to this film are incredible. The lead actors, Ewan and Nicole, are unbelievable singing! Their voices are perfect together. It’s an amazing story, with incredibly beautiful songs and a wonderful meaning: the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

An act of kindness

One day, after sleeping at my house, I went to the bus stop with my boyfriend to see him going to his home. In the way back home, I saw an amazing scene: a street dog being adopted.
Near my house are lots of abandoned dogs! Some people who live there even feed them. That day, I saw one of this caring people convincing an old couple to bring one dog into their home. It was incredible! The dog was extremely cute and kind, but some people used to mistreat it. Because of that, unknown people scared him a lot.
I didn’t have anything important to do at home, so I decided to stay watching. The dog was afraid at the first moment, but them he entered in the old couple’s house.
Yesterday, when I was going to the bus stop, I looked to the house yard and saw the dog happily running and playing with kids. I smiled without even noticing.

My favourite piece of art: Pride and Prejudice

I love literature! My aunt is a Portuguese teacher and since I was a little girl she used to give me books as presents. Probably because of that, I love reading. My favourite writer is Jane Austen. She was an important English novelist. Her most famous book – which I like the most – is Pride and Prejudice.
It`s about the life of Elizabeth Bennet, the second eldest of five daughters. The Bennets live in Hertfordshire, a place near London. They are not a rich family, so the mother thinks only about marrying her children. Her older sister and best friend, Jane Bennet, is the most beautiful woman in town. She is also incredibly kind.
Elizabeth is probably the only intelligent girl in Hertfordshire. Instead of thinking about marriage as the other girls, she prefers reading. However, everything changes when Mr. Bingley and his friend Mr. Darcy, two handsome rich men, decide to visit the town.
Finding Mr. Darcy an arrogant unpleasant proud man, Elizabeth immediately dislikes him. Besides, she hears him talking to Mr. Bingley and discovers that his opinion about her is not very nice. The book is full of smart dialogues and has an ironic vision of the situations, which gives us an amazing wish to never stop reading it.
What amazes me is that Pride and Prejudice is not just a love story. It`s about moral questions as vanity, politeness, way of behaviour, pride and prejudice. And, above all, it`s an intelligent critical story.

Film Review

Film: The Wave (Die Welle)

The Wave is a successful german movie. More than two and a half millions germans have seen it. It is based on the book The Wave. The film was produced by the great Dennis Gansel and directed by Christian Becker in 2008. It starred some awsome german young actors and actresses like Frederik Lau, Max Riemelt, Jeniffer Ulrich and Odine Johne. It also has the participation of Jurgen Vogel.

It is project week in the school, and Rainer Wenger( Jurgen Vogel) has to teach the students what is autocracy. Firstly he argues over whether or not a dictatorship could be established in modern Germany. Of course the students don´t believe in it. So he starts trying to show how easily people can be manipulated creating an experiment.

The goal of the experiment was to make the classmates create a moviment. The Wave was founded, all students starded wearing white shirts and having Rainer as a leader. Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that some students are taking The Wave far more seriously than others, with disastrous results.

It is defenitely a worth watching, Vogel played this caracter perfectly making people believe in what he was saying during the film. The young actors and actresses despite having no large expirience handled their rolles in a shocking and fantastic way. The Wave is a superbly directed and thought-provoking thriller that will doubtless become a huge hit with philosophy and sociology teachers everywhere. Highly recommended.

My favourite piece of art

NOOO, IT´S NOT. It can sound like a cliché, but it is not. My favourite piece of art ist the portrait of Mona Lisa. It is not because it is a beautiful portrait or because it was made by the great Leonardo da Vinci. Definitely, the Mona Lisa´s portrait is my choice because I never heard that a small painting could have such a big deal with the world´s history.
Mona Lisa´s portrait was made in the 16th-century. It is painted in oil on a poplar panel. The work is currently owned by France and it can be seen on dispay at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It is officially called the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.
It has a wonderful power, there is many stories involving it. People believe that there is secrets behind this tiny painting. When I went to Paris and visited the museum it was a such deception for me, the paint is so small, and people can not see it propely because there is many chineses blocking your way and taking six hundred non-sense pictures of it.
Wish I could know the worldchanging mystery of this powerful portrait.
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My favourite piece of art

Hi there!!

My favourite piece of art is a music from Mike Posner calledCooler than me. It's a nice song to be listened in a bus, when you are travelling or going to school. That music is not as well known in Brazil but for sure it will be. It's a nice music to sing as well.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrFQLmOp0fI

This is the link of the official video!!

My favourite piece of art