Category: Cinema

22/08/2015 Foxcatcher | Mark Ruffalo | Poder | power prime | Robert Trivers | Steve Carell | The Folly of Fools Feitosa-Santana

Foxcatcher: The Power of Power!

We are quite used to the phrase “power corrupts” but we rarely stop to reflect on it. According to Robert Trivers, by acquiring power, it instantly corrupts our mental process. What does that mean? It means that the more power we feel (empowerment), the less we consider the other’s point of view and the more […]

07/05/2014 Annika Wedderkopp | Children Innocence | How Memory Works | Memory Errors | The Hunt Danish | The Hunt Vinterberg Feitosa-Santana

The Hunt

THE HUNT is one of the best contemporary movies! Just perfect! I’m speechless! There is nothing better than these 115 minutes to understand how human memory works and how most of us is ignorant about it! Memory is malleable and every time that we remember, we modified it! Memory could never be used in the court because memory […]

21/09/2013 alexander siddig | Arab-Israeli War | Deir Yassin Massacre | Israel Palestine Conflit | israeli palestinian conflict | julian schnabel | middle-east | Miral Movie | politics | Yolanda El Karam Feitosa-Santana

Miral

Review by Grady Harp: “”It is refreshing to visit the Israeli/Palestinian conflict form a vantage too seldom shared in cinema. Director Julian Schnabel once again proves that he understands human responses in the face of political conflict. Rula Jebreal has adapted her own novel which in turn is a biography of her involvement in the history […]

15/08/2013 Caroline Bottaro | gaming | Kevin Kline | o jogo | playing chess | Queen to Play Movie | Sandrine Bonnaire | video games Feitosa-Santana

Queen to Play (Joueuse), the Movie

Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) is a maid and, after observing a couple playing chess in the hotel where she works, she gets interested in learning how to play it. She buys one set for her husband’s birthday but he does not find it attractive. She starts playing by herself and gets so obsessed by the game that […]