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The Hunger Games are addictive
By GalaTView staff
Photos By: Alfonso de Elias.
The Hunger Games tells the dark tale of a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who is selected to compete in a vicious televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post-apocalyptic society fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. In the future, North America is no more. In its place has risen Panem, a divided nation split into 12 districts. Every year, each district selects a teen of each gender (called “Tributes”) to test their worth in a competition known as the Hunger Games, which are broadcast across the nation as entertainment, and to reinforce the government’s total power. When her younger sister is selected as District 12’s latest “Tribute,” Katniss volunteers to take her place, and trains under hard-drinking former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) to sharpen her killer instincts. Now in order to survive the game and emerge the victor, this young combatant must put all of her skills to the ultimate test.
GalaTView talked to Amanda Stenberg (Rue) and said: “Jennifer is extremely funny, in every time that we take together laughing, Jen and I were doing the same things acting. Sometimes, I had to play on some scenes and these ones had to be explained them to me mainly in some scenes were I was extremely scared because I was involved in a kind of games so It become something that I really got each scene after all.”
Alexander Ludwig (Cato): “I jumped up to my opportunity just because I had this chance to play this guy. It was really wanted to experience the dark side so I had to twist individually. I wanted cared about physical presents in a mental movie and there was a lot fight training where you can go through so I have been working with a navy seal and tons of hang calls back like a club.”
Lenny Kravitz (Cinna):”I have been in rock actually but I didn’t know about the book so I had to read it but the crew call me back very quickly after see this classic epic story, I hated at the beginning for the classic way but I loved for the costumes and messages at the same time. I’m so satisfied to do a great project with everybody who was cool and nice, no divas no drama, real actors and everyday was hugging and saying hi to each other and we had so much fun. So is not a goodbye in a certain point.”
An American man in a foreign tongue in Casa De Mi Padre (My Father’s house)
By Jenny Alvarez
Photos by Alfonso De Elias
This film is coming out in theaters March 16th. If you want to watch a 2 hour Spanish movie with English subtitles, you will get to focused on The Alvarez brothers who are searching for a way to save their father’s ranch, but they find themselves in a war with Mexican drug lord. Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). Then they will find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal). However, is not the best film that I have seen, its humor is rude social criticism. Will Ferrell is unfamiliar with this type of Spanish soap opera, but a good point is that he tried to speak in Spanish (although it was by memorization). On the other hand, Director Matt Piedmont plays it silly, thanks to the use of miniatures and puppets, fake animals, and life-size dolls. Hilarious? Not exactly, it was odd and silly.
Casa De Mi Padre also provides a smart, humorous display about complex U.S. and Mexican relations and a subliminal message about family, love, unity, struggles and odd relations between two nations that go beyond border-crossing, expanding its repertoire to other ethnic stereotypes. Even Cristina Aguilera sings the little track at the beginning of the movie, the script of this Mexican ‘telenovela’ soap is really bad and the dialogue made me smile just a little, due is terrible and others may feel the same way. Certainly, it’s an homage to the Mexican spaghetti western with many mistakes and overacting but is a good opportunity to analyze life is a satire full of complexity and the idea for this film was brilliant!
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Footnote summarizes all the references of the relationship between father and son
By Jenny Alvarez
Photo: Cortesy
Footnote is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition.
Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, is thrilled to see his father’s achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father’s. Will he sabotage his father’s glory?
Their relation is very complicated between a father and son. Does Uriel give too much respect to his father? Is the price he pays too great? It’s much more a tragedy than a comedy (though it has very funny bits) and I found the focus on the word (as in “In the beginning was the word”) fascinating. “Footnote” is a decidedly male-centric film. Structurally, this film is divided into named chapters that make for cute markers but give it the not-entirely satisfying feel of a jaunty satire.
Eventually the movie focuses on an unknown that is stretched almost to the point of paradox: Is the quality of the old man’s work in academe really unsurpassed, or is it really unsatisfactory? The movie does turn out to be a fable, and a fable worth taking seriously. Finally, we won’t know the possible end but I figure out that love will win in this complex paradigm.
