From time to time you go to the movies just to spend a Saturday afternoon and you found a little treasure, this is what happened to me when I saw “I am Sam”.
It is a drama film made in 2001; it stars Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Sean Peen plays the part of his life as Sam Dawson; actually he was nominated for the Oscar to the best actor in a leading role.
The film is about the strength of paternal love. Sam Dawson is a 7-year-old-minded man; he has been left to his fate with a daughter to rise the day after her birth.
He takes care of Lucy Diamond (she named her so for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”) helped by her three handicapped friends and his agoraphobic neighbor Annie.
Soon he realizes Lucy is really smart and that she knows her father is different but she loves her dad above all. After Lucy’s eventful birthday, a social worker sends her with a foster family during the trial which has to decide Sam’s ability for taking care of Lucy.
Sam hires Rita as his lawyer (a so called cold and heartless woman) whose private life is as dysfunctional as brilliant is her career.
In his way Sam help the others to make up their lives, he manages to make Annie go to the court to testify and overcome her phobia, he advises Rita to leave a husband who doesn’t love her and to recover the relation with her son.
Sam is somehow more sensible than the average people, his viewpoint is simple and all he does is for love.
During the trial Rita says “every parent has those moments when their child is so unbelievably challenging, that you feel retarded” and as Sam Says fathering “is about patience, about listening, and it’s about LOVE”, ¿simple? but plain truth…
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I am Sam
Monday, March 31, 2008
Working on holidays
Last Easter I remembered why I love working on holidays.
At first glance it is unlikely to enjoy working while others are having fun, but think about the benefits.
First of all you can get up a bit later, and you have the rare opportunity of doing a little lay-in, and in case you are not as sleepyhead as me you can a have a slow breakfast, so you leave home happy.
Then you get into the car and ¡surprise! You find no one on the road, except those happy drivers who like working on holidays, there is no traffic jam, and there is plenty of parking place, so you arrive early and happy to work.
Once you are there, and as you are early you have time to have a slow coffee, what a pleasure!
Then you start working, there are fewer phone calls, less mails, less interruptions, so you can catch up with work, you have time to clean and organize your desk (you rediscover your desk under those piles of sheets you use to have on it!).
When the working day is over you can go home on time because you have finished your tasks, and again the road is empty so you arrive home happy and early and you have time to read or watch TV or whatever you like.
Don’t you think it’s fantastic?
At first glance it is unlikely to enjoy working while others are having fun, but think about the benefits.
First of all you can get up a bit later, and you have the rare opportunity of doing a little lay-in, and in case you are not as sleepyhead as me you can a have a slow breakfast, so you leave home happy.
Then you get into the car and ¡surprise! You find no one on the road, except those happy drivers who like working on holidays, there is no traffic jam, and there is plenty of parking place, so you arrive early and happy to work.
Once you are there, and as you are early you have time to have a slow coffee, what a pleasure!
Then you start working, there are fewer phone calls, less mails, less interruptions, so you can catch up with work, you have time to clean and organize your desk (you rediscover your desk under those piles of sheets you use to have on it!).
When the working day is over you can go home on time because you have finished your tasks, and again the road is empty so you arrive home happy and early and you have time to read or watch TV or whatever you like.
Don’t you think it’s fantastic?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Nominated!
Today Javier Bardem has been nominated for the Oscar’s for his performance at “No country for old men”.
I haven't seen the film yet but I'm looking forward to seeing it. I enjoyed the film which gave him his last nomination for his performance of Reinaldo Arenas at the film "Antes de que anochezca".
Do you think that nomination will help somehow the Spanish film industry?
I like Spanish films "El cielo abierto", "You're the one" or "Sobreviviré" (Have you seen them?) but I can't either stand Almodovar's or Santiago Segura's films, they're too much for my nerves.
What kind of cinema are you keen on? Do you like Spanish films?
Urban legends
I was thinking about an uncanny story to tell you when I realized that we are usually bombed with SPAM in our mailbox explaining frightening stories or what we call urban legends.
I use to ignore them, but here it goes one that shocked me a few months ago.
Be careful when you drive at night, and please don’t warn a car with the headlights off. This is the starting shot for the initiation rite of the Latin gangs. The “applicant” must drive with the headlights off and his target will be the first car to warn him of driving blindly with flashing lights. Next step is turning around, pursuing that car and killing all the passengers. Only this way he will be accepted in his new family.
Perhaps you will think this is a piece of nonsense, but think about it next time you see a car driving with the headlights off, what will you do?
I use to ignore them, but here it goes one that shocked me a few months ago.
Be careful when you drive at night, and please don’t warn a car with the headlights off. This is the starting shot for the initiation rite of the Latin gangs. The “applicant” must drive with the headlights off and his target will be the first car to warn him of driving blindly with flashing lights. Next step is turning around, pursuing that car and killing all the passengers. Only this way he will be accepted in his new family.
Perhaps you will think this is a piece of nonsense, but think about it next time you see a car driving with the headlights off, what will you do?
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