The art of making a movie…

Is the art of creating more than an atmosphere; it’s creating a whole frame of mind. When you get the chance to watch something responding to this description you realize you’ve been pretty lucky. You suddenly start thinking that watching a good movie has some sort of healing and calming power.

Watching a very good movie heals your soul.

 

This is what I thought two nights ago, after watching a famous movie I didn’t happen to see in theaters, I’m talking about “Brokeback Mountain”, by Ang Lee. It really is a cinema masterpiece, but not for the story. Even if this movie was highly helped in gaining its fame by the theme it treated, it really deserved all those awards. I personally believe, making a movie isn’t simply telling a story. If it was only this, every piece of video would be called “movie”, instead it’s not this way the world works. Ang Lee is a master of storytelling, a dreammaker. Everything in the movie, soundtrack, landscapes, actors’ small gestures, words and more importantly silences contribute in equal part to a film that breaches in your heart. There is no need for explosions, big stars (even if Ledger and Gyllenhaal are), huge sets to make a rocking film.

Great 2 h 25′ of my audience life. Thanks Ang Lee and everyone who made this reality.

Spain…the country of the future

It may seem strange I write about Spain when, after Italian election there would be plenty of discussions to be done for what concerns the new government. Maybe I am writing about Spain, also for this reason. I do really prefer to write about countries I admire…, Italian elections’ results definitely aren’t what I was hoping to be…

Why Spain the country of the future?

- Growing economy,

- Social welfare,

- Latin spirit (which is always a good thing )

Event if gay weddings were allowed some year ago, the sky didn’t fall on Spain. Spain, the same country where the new Defense Minister, pregnant at the moment, goes visiting soldiers in Herat.

by Reuters

What a wonderful Europe, what a wonderful Spain!