Super 8

 Today I'm going to talk about a movie that I really like, for a while now, and that is Super 8. 

This film (you can tell by the poster) is a science-fiction story, wich reminds me to an adventure similar to Stranger Things or even The Goonies, because is a group of friends who are in the wrong place at the wrong time (that's why it also gives me Harry Potter vibes). This incident that they witness is what triggers all the actions that follow in the film, and that incident is a train crash, but it was purposely done: a truck drove on the rails to make the crash happen. 

This group of friends were in the train station filming a movie of their own, and that's a interesting thing in the movie, at all times they are filming the movie for this festival they want to participate in, so they are always running with the make up and costumes, camaras and then revealing the rolls (the movie is set in the 80').

I watch this movie for the first time in inglish class, in a day that we had nothig better to do, we had no presentations or work to do, so our teacher, who loved this tipe of movies, put this in the projector. Because of the time we didn't finish it, but I liked it very much and I couldn't just left it like that, with out not knowing the end of the movie, so I went to Netflix and watched from where we had left off. 

Is a really good movie, I recommend it.

 

Mubi

 A website that I visit with some regularity (I would say like...twice a week, but it really depends of the week, for example now that we are in the mids of the walkout, definitely is more than just twice a week) is Mubi. I got to suscribe by the insufferable internet and its ears, because (and this is before I even matriculated to study film and TV) YouTube flooded me with ads of this website, those ads were basically little trailers of different films, foreign films, italian, asian, french and russian movies, and I watch them and said Oh! that looks really cool. Spoiler: I signed up to Mubi.

So yeah, is a plataform where you can watch movies, but like...cinema art (cine arte), and especially european movies. It has the films of the day (thirty selected titles) but you can also watch other movies, you can search by titles or directors, sometimes you can try by actors/actresses. There I watched Cold War (a movie nominated to the Oscars), Drive My Car (I really recommend it, is a beatiful movie, even if is three houres long, this one did won the Oscar for foreign film) and The Sacrifice (let me tell you it is a sacrifice to watch it, but if you are depressed and up for something sloooooowwwww and deeeeeeep (deep in the sense of philosophical questioning about life) then is totally your movie). Ignore my double parentheses. 

But, if I'm being honest, I mostly suscribed because now that I'm studying film and TV I have the moral need to watch more movies (and for the discount I had for being a university student).

The link: https://mubi.com/es

A memorable trip

 In the middle of the pandemic my dad came up with the idea of going out on a trip (this was when you were allow to go around the contry). The selected place was the beach Ventanas. At first I was like...Why are we goig to that place if you watch everything they say in the news? But my dad replied that it was actually one of the most beautiful beaches in the contry, so, if we didn't get too close to the water we were going to be ok. So we went. 

We went with one of my aunts. I was not such a long car trip and I read from the start to the end of it. The first beach we saw when we arrived was really desappointing, I told my dad that that wasn't what I was expecting and he started to tell me all the good memories he has on that beach...The reality was that there were not sand left, all of it had been swallow by the sea, so, it was a cliff with the blue tongues of the water at the bottom of the stone wall. After that we whent back to the car and went to the real beach. 

This other beach had sand and parking, even picnic tables. There my dad, my mom and my sister sat down on a blanket they had brought. As for me and my aunt, we take off our shoes and we went for a walk. In that walk we talk a lot, and it was really refreshing...I think that mostly beacuse it had been such a long time in confinement that being in the world, breathing clean air did me good. It was like a recharging trip, I enjoy it very much.