Film review

HOME

This film is called “home”, and it talks about the earth, its history, the recent pollution, the causes and the consequences. The title relates the earth, with our home like a lovely place where we have to live and to take care of it.

Truly it’s more similar to a documentary than to a film because there aren't characters who talk or something like this, but the earth and us as the main characters and a narrator that explains the story.

Apart from the plot it have to be recognized that the film have been a very hard work and shows us a very beautiful and real landscapes of all around the world.

The main objective of this film is to raise awerness to what have happened in the earth, what we are changing to worst and which consequences it will has this and teach us to be more respectful in this topic.

In my opinion this film is a good initiative and it's done for a good reason, but the most of the companies that have helped in the production of the film have started with a lot of the problems and I think that the big companies are the only ones that can change the current situation.

Book review

Deception Point

I read this book in English, because we had to read a book for English class. There were a lot of books to choose, but I chose because of the title that is a bit mysterious and it doesn't give you any information of the book and because it was one of the non-adapted books which gave more points to read it.

I only read 110 pages of the book because it was what I have to do but it was quite good. The part of story I have read it it's very interesting but there are too much descriptions of places and characters (that probably could be justified because I have read only the first pages) and all them are a bit extravagant. The story is very mysterious because it happens things and you don't know exactly what is happening after some pages. 

Apart from that the book tells the story of parallel happenings in the same time but of different characters. 

The plot of the story is about a girl called Rachel whose father is a senator (called Sexton) who is applying to be the president. Rachel works for the government making important briefs for the president, so she is in the middle of his father and the president. Sexton's campaign is especially against the NASA overspending and uselessness. In this situations it seems that, when Sexton is going to win the presidential elections soon, NASA have made an important discovery. The president wants that Rachel and some independent scientists go there to see the discovery and make sure that is not an invention of the NASA. It seems that is the most important breakthrough ever done. Since this moment the story starts and...

I can't tell any more because I haven't read it all, and I know the discovery but I won't say it here because you will have to read it if you feel interested. 

Obviously I don't know the final but for the title, probably the discovery isn't true or something like that. 

I have to say that I would recommend this book because I don't like too much to read, but I have liked a lot this book and it has been very catchy.

Finally I have to say that I liked a lot this book and I probably will read the whole book, but this time in Catalan because it was a bit difficult for all the complex vocabulary that I had to search in every page. 

Gattaca (film review)

I will do the film review about this film called Gattaca because since a lot of time I don't see any complete film and this one I have seen it in class, on the CMC subject. Another reason to chose this film is because I like a lot this topic of the DNA and all things related with genetics and this is the only film I have seen that talks about this topic without doing it boring. 

First of all this strange title is because gattaca is a sequence of the DNA molecule. This was the first that catch me the attention. 

The film is set in a future human society, where people is separated in two social classes since they born. This is because in this time is possible and allowed to make a baby "in vitro" with the best characteristics and since people born they know when they will die, their intelligence and which type of job they will do. So they can be valid or in-valid for a job only looking on their DNA. In my opinion I think that this is a bit futurist and unreal because it's certain that with your DNA you can see probabilities of some diseases but you can't see the job or when someone will die.

The story is about a boy called Vincent that is an in-valid one and they have always wanted to go to the stars but he can't because he is an in-valid and he was predestined to be cleaner. When he is older he buy the identity of a valid one that is in wheelchair and he start working in a company that sent its workers to the stars. Since this moment all his life change completely and he became a valid one with all the advantages that this implies. 

I can't explain the final of the story but is a bit shocking because it's happy and sad at the same time.

I liked a lot the film specially for the topic and because is something different that we are not accustomed to see.

In or out of time

“In Time” is an action film starring by Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried with a lot of special effects that it are very powerful.

The plot is very sophisticated: this is a science-fiction film set in the future where people can live 25 years without complications and they grew up but then they stop ageing and they have only a year of time to live so they have to work to earn time because all it is paid by time so the society is divided in the ones who can live for ever and the ones who have to live for the day, and every day they are nearly out of time. All the people have a counter of time on their wrist.

About this I think that is very well designed and is very interesting.

Will, that is the main character, is a young boy of 28 year that live for the day in the poor part of the city, and in the beginning of the film her mother died because her times runs out. Then Will meet is in a bar and some boys are trying to steal the time to a rich man, Will help him and bring him to a safe zone. They sleep there. When Will wakes up he has a million of years in his counter and the other man isn’t there. She go to the rich part of the city and there he meet a girl. Meanwhile he is followed for the police, because it’s strange that he have this too much time. Then during the film they escape and she that was a son’s rich man, firs is angry but then she fall in love for him.

I like specially the plot and the special effects.

In general I think is a good film with a very well designed plot and very catchy.

So if you want to see an undemanding, visually exciting film with action and spectacular special effects go to see this film.

Star Rating: *****