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The deepest conquest in “Embrace of the Serpent”
By Jenny A.
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The ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscapeest in Embrace of the Serpent, the first film shot in the Amazonian rainforest in over 30 years. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the film centers on Karamakate (portrayed in various stages by Nilbio Torres and Antonio Bolívar Salvado), an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists (Evans and Theo, portrayed by Brionne Davis and Jan Bijvoet) who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Kock-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Embrace of the Serpent from director Ciro Guerra who reflects a poetic film and It’s a tense, trippy, emotional and full of adventures and if you go into it just looking for metaphors and symbolism about colonialism and indigenous culture, you will find those things. During 2 hr. 3 min.you will see the real redemption of the white colonials with the best images of the jungle even are in black and white.
More happiness for Eva Mendez
By GalaTView Staff
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Despite of this famous couple kept their pregnancy quiet, Eva Mendez and Ryan Gosling. Even they have short term planning and not necessarily a lifetime commitment their baby would be a blessed angel from heaven. This will be the first child for Mendes, 40, and Gosling, 33. Congratulations for the new parents!
Ivete Sangalo stronger than ever
Ivete Sangalo, one of Brazil’s leading female pop music icons with a remarkable career spanning over two decades, will bring her “Real Fantasia 2013” tour to the U.S. for a five-city run in August. The tour will begin Aug. 9 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, and continue on to the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Aug. 10, the Lynn Auditorium in Lynn, MA on Aug. 16, the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Aug. 17, and lastly the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Aug. 18.
