Cold mountain

Yesterday I saw a dramatic film, directed by Anthony Minghella in 2003, called Cold Mountain. I liked the film very much. It’s a very good film, I loved it. This film is based in a Charles Frazier novel.

Cold Mountain won the Academy Award, the BAFTA award and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for Reneé Zellweger performance (she was amazing in this film), and it was nominated for other awards.

I took this film of the UJI’s library because I have heard about it before and I love the cast of the film (the three main characters are Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Reneé Zellweger), it’s brilliant.

The film tells a love story between Inman (Jude Law) and Ada (Nicole Kidman). Ada is a lady who lived in the city but she moves to the country with her father because of her father’s illness. Here in the country he felt in love with Inman. Ada is always waiting a declaration of love of Inman but he is very shy and he doesn’t know how to express himself.

One day starts a war so all the men have to go to combat against the Americans. Inman has to go too so Ada goes to say goodbye to him. He finally declares his love to her and he goes to combat.

Ada remains at her home with her father, who dies some days later. Ada goes through hard times without her father, without Inman, and without all the comforts that she had at the city, but she doesn’t want to return to the city, she wants to wait for Inman. And this way the days pass.

Inman combating at war, thinks all time about Ada and he always reads her letters. One day he is seriously injured on the neck and he is pulled out of the battlefield. Being injured he receives a letter from Ada in which she says that he is waiting for him, she misses him and she needs him next to her. After reading the letter Inman run away to Cold Mountain to return with Ada, so he turns himself into a deserter so he is persecuted and he is condemn to death penalty.

While, in Cold Mountain, Ada is in despair and needs someone to help her with the housework and it’s when Ruby (Reneé Zelweger) arrives. Rubi and Ada became inseparables. Rubi cheers up Ada.

Inman cross lots of dangers and he was injured several times. But finally he achieves to arrive to Cold Mountain and he meets up with Ada. They are very happy together, but their happiness doesn’t last so much time because the Home Guardsmen find Inman and they kill him.

The film ends several years later with Ada, Ruby and their families celebrating Easter. Ruby is married, and she has an infant child and Inman has given Ada a little girl, Grace.

I recommended the film to you, it’s a masterpiece. I’m sure you would like it ;)

A big error

This week I heard a terrible piece of news. A man, who was twenty-four, had been arrested for allegedly rape a baby, who was only three. The baby was his girlfriend’s daughter. The man was looking after her. The baby was seriously wounded and she had terrible burns around her little body. The man that raped the baby took her to the hospital the same day of the alleged rape.
This kind of news, that we unfortunately hear so frequently, make me shiver. I can’t understand why these men can do this, they’re insane.
Two days later of the publication of this terrible notice at the news I returned to hear it. The reporters said that the baby had dead. This end didn’t surprise me at all, it was predictable because the baby was seriously wounded and it’s a common end nowadays. How many babies, girls and women will dead at the same way? It’s really horrible.
And yesterday I heard again the item of news. For my surprise (and for everyone’s surprise) the man didn’t rape the baby, she only fell down of a swing and this caused to her a terrible brain hemorrhage, and this hemorrhage caused a strange allergic reaction in her skin, similarly to burns. The man has been plead not guilty because the baby didn’t has any sign of rape, but I think that his innocence doesn’t compensate him all that he has passed and all the things that were said at the news. Now the man has pressed charges to the doctors that examined the baby and all the media that said that he had raped the baby.

Kate Moss

I’m doing a work, in computer science, about the anorexia and the bulimia. In this work I talk about what are these problems, what are their causes and consequences , what are their simptoms, which are their medical treatment and the influency of the TV, radio, magazines, in conclusion the mass media, in that diseases.

Yesterday I was reading the newspaper on the internet and I read an article where Kate Moss was criticized because she encouraged the anorexia (Kate Moss is a famous british model and the idol of a lot of girls and women in the world). The british model said in a fashion magazine that “ There’s nothing better that being thin”.

This statement have been used as a slogan by the web pages that defend the anorexia.

In my opinion the magazine that published that article shouldn’t have published the statment of Kate Moss and I think that this british model is an immature. In my opinion this model can do anything she wants but she should realize that she is an idol for a lot of girls and women in the world and her words are very important for these people. I think that she should realize that a lot of people love her and they have helped her in her path to fame so the less that she can do is help that people too and I think that saying to them that “there’s nothing better than being thin” she isn’t helping them.

On the other hand, the magazine shouldn’t have published the article, they should have censure it, because they knew the consequences that Kate Moss’words could have.

We have to stop the anorexia because it’s a desease that is very difficult to cure. The first that we have to do is doing a tracking of the models, because there are a lot of them that have anorexia and they’re imitated by many teenagers and women. We can stop the anorexia but we need the help of the mass media too.

Against the sexist violence?

The dane NGO ‘Born og Unge I Voldsramte familier’ has published a very polemic advertising campaign, on the internet, against the sexist violence.

This advertising campaign consists in a kind of ‘game’ called hit the bitch. This game consists in that the ‘player’ has to hit a woman that is insulting him. The person who is playing the ‘game’ hit the woman with a man’s arm that he controls with the mouse or with the webcam. He has to hit her about ten times and the woman each time appears more and more injured. There are two scores, the woman score and the ‘player’ score. The woman score decrease as the ‘player’ is hitting her and the player score increase . Finally the ‘game’ finishes when the player is a 100% macho man and the girl lying on the floor says to him that he is 100% idiot.

This advertising campaign only is available in Denmark, because ‘Born og Unge I Voldsramte familier’ has prohibited its reproduction because of the excessive traffic that they have recieved. So now if you try to enter in the official page of the ‘game’ ‘hitthebitch.com’ there is an informative sign explaining why the entrance to the page is restricted.

I think that this advertising campaign isn’t correct because althouth after the ‘game’ there are some signs that tell you that you’re an idiot and a monster, the person who have played the game have hit the woman and maybe he liked it. I think that there are another best methods to stop the sexist violence, there is no need to hit a woman(althouth her isn’t a real woman) for that.

Here I leave the link of the video, spread by ‘Born og Unge I Voldsramte familier’, the dane NGO, where we can watch, but no play, that game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbr2xLKBrA&feature=related

NEW GLASSES!

(Here I leave a photo of these curious glasses.)

This morning I was reading some news on the internet and there was a very interesting and curious one. A Japanese company, called NEC, has invented some glasses( Tele Scouter) that can translate, almost simultaneosly into writed words, a conversation in any language into the language you want. The glasses have a microphone and a camera that recieve the words of the person you’re looking at. This sounds are sended to a tiny computer, situated on the wrist of the listener, and that computer sends the information to a server. This server does the translation of the text into the language that the listener wants and then the new text return to the glasses like text messages. These messages appear in a kind of slide viewer situated on one of the lens of the glasses. Although this translation of a text into a different language seems complicated, the inventors of the Tele Scouter said that only takes a few seconds.

The glasses have only been presented in a Tokio trade fair, but for the next year(2010), said its inventors, the glasses will be for sale.

At first when I saw this new I was worried because these glasses could compete with tranlslators job, could be a terrible rival for the interpreters and for lots of tranlator companies. But then I realized that it maybe couldn’t be a rival, the price of this invent is 1,2 million euros!!!