Usually,
the notion of technology is related with the usefulness. In that case, probably
the most useful object is the mobile phone, because it’s got a lot of functions
that the humans of our time need. But, if I have to choose, my favourite piece
of technology would be the camera. I’ve been wondering about the memory and how
fragile it is. Fragile because we forget almost everything that happens in the daily
life, but also because sometimes we just need a tiny stimulus to recreate old
memories. In my opinion, the photograph is an excellent way to do that. The
camera helps me to remind how our streets were and how our faces have changed. It
could be interpreted as a desperate act of trying to register everything. However,
I think that’s impossible for the camera and for me.
A Great Film
The movie I like the most is called “21 grams”. It’s directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and the main cast is Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro. Besides, it´s part of a kind of trilogy, along with “Amores Perros” and “Babel”, in which the plot tells the story of three different characters that don’t know each other, but for many reasons their lives coincide at some point. You may think that the film could be related with drug traffic or an addiction, but it begins explaining that the title is based on an old story. Somebody, I don’t know where or why, said that our body, at the exactly moment of our death, loses 21 grams, so it would be the weight of our soul. I can’t remember the characters’ names, so I’ll use the actors’ ones. Naomi’s husband and her two daughters suffer a collision by a car that is being driven by Benicio, an old man who used to be at the ‘dark side’ and a few years ago had converted into Catholicism, but it doesn’t save him from jail. For his par...
Is great that you like the photograph! take me a picture
ReplyDeleteI really like the camera too! I did not think to write about it.
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