The portrait in the movie

The portrait in the movie

A weird headline you would say, well yeah it is. The think I like most of it, it’s that it doesn’t give anything away so you may stay and read all the entry and discover what’s about or at least I hope you would. It’s well that some movies are based on real facts, real things that happened to some people; even some movies that illustrate bad events have a background that it’s not fantasy. Knowing this feels sort of sad, doesn’t it? Knowing that reality can be terrible too is a really sad thing, but we are here- alive- to deal with it and try to make the best out of everything even bad situations.

On note to that we can put an example out there: “The pianist” that is a “Roman Polanski's heartfelt and high-minded Holocaust movie - based on the true-life memoir of Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman” (Bradshaw, 2003) so you’re probably very well aware that this movie in particular portraits the journey of a man –jewish- who tries nothing but survive the horrendous atrocities of the time (World War II).

The real question, though is it accurately portrait? Yes, yes it is. You may think “you don’t know for sure you haven’t experience anything like that” and it’s true, but in reality we all can say it’s a good representation of the events, not necessarily because it’s based on a real life story, but because it illustrate what the human kind is capable of doing and how terrifying things can actually become. So yes, “The pianist” is a great movie that demonstrate how much suffering occurred to those people in those times. 

Oñate, B. (2017)

(Brody, 2002)

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Bradshaw, P. (24/January/2003). The pianist. Retrieved: 2017, From:  https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/24/artsfeatures6

Brody, A. (2002). The pianist. Retrieved: 2017, From: https://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/Books-Films/Images/2012-05/adrien-brody-the-pianist-6.jpg

The mask behind “The Pianist”

The mask behind “The Pianist”

That title sounded a little odd didn’t it? Well you must have already figure out that I’m referring to the movie called “The pianist” but if you haven’t, I am. Have you seen it? You probably have since it’s very well known in the world especially because its plot doesn’t revolve completely around a man who plays the piano, there’s certainly more to it. Now you must be thinking that it’s just an entry to refer to the Second World War, which might be true to a certain extend. This is an entry to actually stop to think what’s the message hidden behind this story and what can we learn from it.

The pianist is a heart breaking story about the tragedies people had to live during those years, so probably the message it’s just “Do not take for granted what you have it could be gone in a second” right? It’s just part of the message, one of the much lessons we can learn from this story. And if that’s not the main message what’s it then? Is “People have a tendency to adapt, make do and look on the bright side.” as (LaSalle, 2003) puts it? No, that isn’t either, though it’s a great lesson too.

The aim was probably higher, the main message will probably be among the lines “Never forget who you are on the inside, it doesn’t matter all the difficulties you’ve to pass, what matters is that you stay true to yourself” yeah that sounds right, doesn’t it? 

Neira, E. (2017)

 (Focus Feature, N.D)

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Focus Feature. (N.D). The Pianist. Retrieved: 2017. From:  http://focusfeatures.com/the_pianist.

LaSalle, M. (03/January/2003). Masterpiece / Polanski's 'The Pianist' is a true account of one man's survival in the Warsaw ghetto. Retrieved: 2017, from:  http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Masterpiece-Polanski-s-The-Pianist-is-a-true-2687880.php

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Against to the stereotype.

During the years, people have been created their “idealized perfect couple”, and also stereotypes in order to define the person created in their minds, even if they are women or males, those stereotypes are focusing only in the typical physical characteristics, but that is not going to define the person that your heart will chose, your perfect partner is not going to be someone that will love for how you look, furthermore the most that we find in a person is confidence, love and the most closed to a soulmate, even if this is just a myth, human’s heart and minds, still thinking in it even though if they knew the truth.

And believed or not, people are constantly believing that having a perfect couple is going to be the easiest thing in life, I mean the way that we will manage this situation and how the relationship will work with the past of the years, because we pretend that the hard work, and problems are things that only affect at the first stage of it, but an experience of (Cabaniss, 2017) it’s against that opinion.

She said “Good relationships take hard work. Sustaining a relationship over years is not for the faint of heart.” And if we starting analyzing it, this is one of the main reasons of why the people can’t find their “perfect couple” or “perfect relationship” because they don’t want to work in it at all, even if at their first stage they knew that this will be difficult, because the goal of finding the imperfect person, is the process of learning themselves and construct the stairs to achieve those real stereotypes that scream in their heads.   (Sánchez, J. 2017)

Cabaniss, D. (03 de 03 de 2017). HUFFPOST. Obtenido de http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-l-cabaniss-md/good-relationships-take-hard-work_b_9358456.html

The perfect couple among our life

The perfect couple among our life

What is the thought that often comes to your mind when you think about the perfect couple? It’s probably some kind of stereotype like “prince charming and snow white” that has been engraved to our brains since we are little kids or now days maybe you’re thinking more about “Elena and Damon” from the vampire diaries, yet those are just stereotypes, of course subconsciously we will look for partners had somehow match with those traits that we believe make the perfect couple.

As we grow many of us stop believing in the existence of such a thing as “the perfect couple” labeling as a sappy believe, although that’s not a rule that applies to everyone but is fairly general. Anyway when we end up in this place some of us tend to idealize love, a train of thought that often comes as “my special someone should be like this… and should be like that…” and so it goes on and on until we have so many standards that need to be achieve that we give up on the idea while others just avoid the topic in general deciding to focus on many other matters.

But wherever you end up, the perfect couple does exist it’s just not as you think it may be. Everybody has their perfect couple however it what you least expect because you should “Never judge a book by its cover they say. It’s what’s on the inside that matters” (Vasilopoulou, 2016)so me perfect couple are made from the imperfections both partners have. What is yours?

Oñate, B. (2017)

(Vasilopoulou, 2016)

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Vasilopoulou, N. (2016). There is no such thing as ‘The Perfect Couple’. Retrieved August 21, 2017, from http://pillowfights.co.uk/mark-my-words/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-perfect-couple/

The perfect Couple in pop culture

The perfect Couple in pop culture

Love. Oh sweet love, or at least that’s what everybody says because not everybody has had the joy to experience knowing the feeling; at least not in a romantic way; in spite of that everybody has actually come across some show, movie or some sort of media that can be related to it. Now days has become strangely common to watch tv shows as a hobby, mainly for teenagers which happen to always create new words and term to refer to certain things and so that’s how we find ourselves with an acronym that you may or may not have heard before: OTP.

OTP stands for one true pairing and is the current form most use by youth these days to refer to the so called “perfect couple” and not necessarily prince charming and Snow white; due to the fact that “More exposure to marriage-themed reality shows led participants to believe in “love at first sight” and that true love will be nearly perfect” (Hillin, 2014) so that’s what’s psychologically call idealization, yet it seems on the other hand that a lot of people have a tendency to believe that your OTP is a mechanism of projection of what you want/expect in a relationship with a significant other. 

Neira, E. (2017)

(Barnes, 2014)

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Barnes, Z. (24/November/2014). Which TV or Movie Couple Is Your "One True Pairing"? Retrieved: 16/August/2017, from: https://www.glamour.com/story/which-tv-or-movie-couple-is-yo

Hillin, T. (18/June/2014). How Movies And TV Shows Are Changing The Way You Think About Love. Retrieved: 16/August/2017, from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/love-study-_n_5508965.html

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