WEBQUEST. TASK 1. GRADED

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Post 4: Themed Post: MY LIFE IN MOVIES AND BOOKS

The bOOKS aNd Films of MY LIFE

It was the year 2000, the storm that month were  chasing town constantly and my thoughts were  completely immersed into the smooth reading of Herman Hesse’s Demian which I had found by chance when looking into the old shelves of the local public library. The family was going  through hard times because I was quite sick, I had a tumour in my head and they had to operate it, and given I had plenty of time to rest and get bored I started reading a lot and with it, getting ready for surgery.  Demian bewitched my deep thoughts and made me grow more mature and see this operation as a step into a new life.

With years I continued reading and I developed the taste for cinema, it all started when I discovered Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being  and then life started bombing me with many more books, movies and other displays of human creativity. I remember I was at university when I watched “Hombre Mirando al Sudeste” and “Magnolia”, both films that made me realize I wanted to write a movie some day.

Also I like music, and the boost and spice it gives to films, one of my favourite soundtracks is the one from the film The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I think the music is fantastic and also, the characters of the movie represent me in many ways, even in the way both lead actors have a strange relationship, in the emotionality they have and the romanticism they display, as well.

Nowadays, my preferences in cinema have changed and I try to watch more off-stream cinema and I don’t read as many books as before now, the time I have for reading I spend it reading documents and papers for work, scientific magazines, reviews, etc. Very little Literature. That is why I am watching more movies than reading, last week I gave myself a Chilean Home-Cinema Festival and I watched “Valparaiso Mon Amour”, “Caluga o Menta” and “Johnny 100 pesos”. I loved all of them and I am sure my hunger for fiction will make me continue finding the time to watch a good film.