After watching two movies

I watched two movies in my spare time at work in the afternoon, one was the latest version of 007, and the other was the new Hollywood movie "The Web of Lies". I gave her a 4 for the former. 007 is a different movie because it lost its character. Another reason to watch this film is that, according to Chilean media, about 40 minutes of the film was filmed in northern Chile, and the author who wrote that article is as proud as we Chinese have successfully hosted the Olympics. After watching the film, I found out that "nada que ver con chile" has nothing to do with Chile, even though some of the exteriors were shot in the northern desert of Chile.

As for the American blockbuster "Web of Lies", I give it a perfect score of 7. Although it is also a movie with a happy ending (I don't know why I don't like movies with happy endings, maybe it's because I read Schopenhauer's "The Void of Survival" that I read in high school. This one is much better than 007, and more importantly, she made me think further about the meaning of movies, the future of movies and other boundless things. At the end of the film, I said to myself in my head: la pelicula no va a cambiar este mundo, pero si esta haciendo un mundo entero, the film does not change the world, but creates a whole world.

Today, there is no subject matter that cannot be reproduced in movies, and there are no secrets and taboos that cannot be expressed in movies. This art form will become an integral part of people's lives in the future, if not today (obviously not, as the film "Web of Lies" shows, in Iraq and in parts of the world, people life has not yet entered a "civilized world" like the United States). War will not go away, hunger and poverty will not go away, but, I believe, movies will slowly spread like television and affect (if change is impossible) the world and the people who live in it.

Out of the cinema, the sun is shining. Looking at all kinds of people around me, I have a feeling of being in a movie, which is the feeling after watching every good movie. In this movie I'm in, I'm not only the protagonist, but also the director. I can't say that my movie is the best and most beautiful, but I can say that this is a movie that only I can direct and star in. I'm going to keep directing and acting, and although the ending will be the same as most people's films, the content is completely different.

In the afternoon after watching two movies, nothing seems to have changed in this world, including mine and my movies. But I know that change will come. It's like the wind, you can't see it, but the leaves are moving, and it's like a tree, you can't hear the sound of the roots growing, but the trees you see dozens of meters high grow like this.


2008/11/24 San Diego

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