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The innocence contrast with the racism and homophobia in “Pelo Malo”
By Jenny Alvarez
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From the Director, screenwriter, visual artist Mariana Rondón was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela “Pelo Malo” is one of her master piece that comes with Junior who is a nine-year-old boy who has stubbornly curly hair, or “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer with long, ironed hair. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta, a young, unemployed widow.
Junior, Marta, and his baby brother live in a large multi-family building. Overwhelmed by what it takes to survive in the chaotic city of Caracas, Marta finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior’s fixation with his looks. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him. His paternal grandmother, a witness to this rejection, asks Marta to give her the boy so that he can look after her. Marta refuses and tries to correct her son’s obsession by “setting an example,” a cruel moment which was meant to be a lesson. Junior finds himself as imaginative and resilient mind-boy and his drama is really realistic with children like him. The relationships among adults are the toughest, but is more tense and bitter movements with his mother, in part of his grandmother to the self-discovery of dancing alone – to watching him mess with his hair we see a child try to live while his mother only survives. Is something that contrast with the formidable world they are planted in. Especially when Junior sings to with his grandma a late-’60s Venezuelan rock ‘n’ roll song and as a specter you can see the real social drama that lives this boy for the complex and confusing feelings against the raw background of Venezuela.
Captivating, hypnotic and deeply disturbing in “Under The Skin”
By Jenny Alvarez
Photos By Alfonso De Elias
From visionary director Jonathan Glazer comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial — or something in between. A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring this succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Based on the novel by Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White), Under The Skin is a bizarre movie with a character who examines the human beings with her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results. Definitely is very provocative, intense, and intriguing hypnotically without any special effects. Scarlett Johansson performs a pattern full of female sexuality or empowerment which lures to a completely dark location, tempts her victims to strip naked with the promise of sex, and then the man sinks into a dark abyss. At the end of the story as a reviewer, this is a character full of obstacles and painful journey because this woman set her eyes on our chaotic planet or culture, crowd noise and as humanity is shown as creatures in a wild habitat. Eventually her tragic end doesn’t have a clear goal or a mission in a borrowed skin with a gorgeous but false surface. Definitely is a great movie with transformation and transfiguration.
Madonna: A self portrait during her first years before a future pop star
Galatview staff
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Despite of Madonna was in her twenties or early thirties when she was raped at knifepoint, in her apartment three times during her first year in New York. Even though the mother-of- four still walks a bit on the wild side with her music and fashion, she explained it was much easier when she was in her 20’s to keep up that person.
Bieber Booed Again
During the Billboard Awards, Justin Bieber not only received two trophies but also the negative attention of the audience. While receiving the final award of the event, Justin Bieber was booed for being awarded the Milestone Award beating out Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift.
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National Geographic Society and James Cameron are involved in a new project
By GalaTView Staff
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One year ago today, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron dove to one of the deepest spots in the Earth’s ocean – and what he found could be a “blockbuster” for science. Bill Whitaker spoke with Cameron about his find. On March 26, 2012, Cameron completed a solo dive into the Marina Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the sub named WHOI which has plans to use the Deepsea Challenger’s cameras and lighting systems on another remote vehicle for expeditions in the Caribbean this summer.These systems were used to capture high-resolution 3-D images of Deepsea Challenger’s dives.
