A new ending stars a new perspective (Pay much attention to this story!)

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Thursday, May 9, 2013


         All the tragic endings have a seemingly good perspective, resultant from the insane eccentricity of the characters, after the awful effects of a determinate dysfunctionality. However, that aspect cannot be the good counterpart of the ending. Here it is the good (and perfect) ending of the film Rebel Without a Cause (or the ending that the fans like me would like, being me an individual who likes action):

(Jim heads for the entrance door of the planetarium.)

Jim: Ray Fremeck is still out there?
Ray: Yes, I’m here.
Jim: Turn off those lights! If you do, we’ll come out!
Ray: OK. Turn the lights out.
(The Policemen turn off the lights of the cars.)
Jim: You see, come on!
(Jim, John and Judy head out for the entrance door.)
John: Who’s that?!
Jim: Just a guy.
John: I shoted one of them.
Jim: That’s all right, you didn’t hurt him.
John: Those are not my friends!
Jim: Listen!
John: Make them go away!
Jim: Do you want I make them go away? Do you want I make that? OK.
Judy (Making the surrender side on the hands): Jim!
(Jim makes the surrender gesture.)
Jim: Ray, you make those guys get back? You don’t need to worry about anything. Here. (Shows the gun.) This is the gun the boy was keeping. So, keep the guys back. Right?
Ray: OK. I am coming right there.

(Ray comes close to Jim, talk. However, Jim resort to action and grabs the gun, making Ray Fremeck an hostage. The Policemen point out the guns to Jim.)

Policemen: Drop out the gun!
Jim: Listen! I have the lieutenant. Let us leave and he lives!
Frank. Jim, please!
Jim: Shut up, dad! I am done with my life. I am tired of the place you brought me. I can be young. But my sum experience of life thought me that the entire world is a bunch of hypocrites and sick idealists. I just want to live glad, without thinking in the sicknesses of society, in which the people are so egocentric that doesn’t care about a friend’s death, just to continue their miserable and habitual lives. That isn’t enjoying life. That is pure sickness. For me, there is no problem that he had shot a man! The real criminals are not the ones who become mad. The real criminals, the real mad people are the ones who leave the others behind. Even Judy, the girl who says she loves me, tried to convince me to leave this boy behind. Plato is the only one here who is special for me. Before I met him, my life was a mess, in which all my attitudes resulted of my age madness. With Plato, I feel I’m not the only. I feel my madness is not unusual. We are mad, but we are emotionally mad. So, we are going to leave. We’re going anywhere, to the county, to the woods, anyplace in which the sick ideals of the world should rule! The agony we lived on was our only trial!

(John heads for the place where was Jim. Holding Ray an hostage, Jim, alongside John, leaves the place of the Planetarium, heading for the right corner of the position of the police cars. Then, Jim finds a van and leaves the lieutenant on the local. The policemen are pursuing them, and a car persecution is initiated.)

Jim: You see, Plato. We did it. We are finally free!
John: I don’t know. I have fear.
Jim. Don’t worry. We’ll be all right. We just need to get away of the cops. Then, we can go wherever we want. Wherever the little minds of the world don’t have ru…

(The van collides with a white car. Jim and John, after flouncing, die on the local. Despite their ending, the boys were happy because they knew they advised the world to some warning issue: the oppression suffered by young people, the need of attention they have, the need of revolt, the need of getting the control of their life, without getting the mad ways. As the people surround the crash site, with cries of the relatives of both young men, the movie ends with the theme "Here’s to you", by Ennio Morricone [Being this a remake, I include a song of a film of 1971. Yes, I am kind comparing the two group of anarchists. Jim and John died, nut they made the perspective of the teenagers world more intelligible. That’s the happy counterpart of the original ending. The one who makes people reflect about the walls of society, and not just cry about a teenager’s madness].)

Here's to you - Joan Baez

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21st Century Icon's Slogan

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Saturday, March 30, 2013

This song and this specific band indicate the preferences of a model icon of this time.

Basket Case - Green Day

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The Science fiction regarding Technology

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Thursday, March 14, 2013

H. G. Wells
            The issues regarding Technology have gained a popular recognition by the influence of the science fiction genre. Emerging essentially during the 19th century, this genre is concomitant with the advancements of Technology and Science.
            Science fiction takes themes which are at the time often approached in society, as well as imaginative possibilities of what may occur according to scientific aspects. For example, Jules Verne explored the idea of travelling to locals at the outset impossible to reach, like the center of the Earth, and H. G. Wells explored the idea of time travelling.
Jules Verne
            However, the progresses in Science are determined by people mentality, which is intrinsically related to Culture. Although this genre is influenced by technological advancements, the fiction has also a role in the progress. An odd case of this fact is a popular belief that the moon landing in the Apollo program was an idea of the President John F. Kennedy, as he watched the sitcom The Honeymooners.

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The Perspectives about Globalisation

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Thursday, February 28, 2013



Allegorical perspective about Globalisation
            In a brief analysis, we would affirm that the most relevant advantage of the phenomenon of Globalisation is the possibility of integrating the ideals of peace and freedom, without compromising the status of economic and social independence of a nation. On the other hand, the most relevant disadvantage would be the possibility of Cultural Assimilation, if a country has not sufficient conditions to maintain its independence of a considerable dominant other.
            However, the theory of Globalisation is more embracing. The phenomenon of Globalisation would finish with the frontiers which separated each culture along History. According to this idea, it may bring stability or inconstancy, depending of the case. If there is the necessity to establish barriers, in order to avoid conflicts between two cultures, Globalisation wouldn’t be correctly practicable. For that reason, we cannot argue that this is not a so fascinating fact, as we agree fondly that a Globalised world would be a wonderful way to solve nowadays troubles.

 
BBC short film about Globalisation

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The Legacy of Martin Luther King

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Thursday, January 24, 2013

Martin Luther King
Since the re-election of Barack Obama in the last month of November, it is relevant to refer the historical facts inherent to the African-American Civil Rights Movement, from 1955 to 1968.
            Martin Luther King, the most prominent figure of this movement and the racial discrimination against African American people, was a man whose actions didn’t involve essentially any specification of his profession as a clergyman but a pure altruism and a thoughtful Activism.
            On 14th October 2012, it made 48 years since Martin Luther King II won the Peace Noble Price. His actions had a large contribution in the history of the United States of America, having made a reenactment of the values introduced in the Declaration of Independence.
            However, this man hadn’t only contributed to the modeling of the ideas of a nation. Whole the world recognizes today the glory of Martin Luther King.

“I Have a Dream” full speech

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Middle Age: the absence of Technological Development

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Monday, December 10, 2012

The Dark Ages
            Just like Japan hadn’t the opportunity to develop in the Feudal period, the Middle Age in Europe brought a climate of terror and darkness to people minds, due to the formation of certain dogmas.
            The dogmas of society, religion or any institution don’t allow the increase of our ideals, of our economy, of our society in general. The feudalism is against the evolution of the human communities.
            In the Middle Age, between the 5th and the 15th centuries, people feared the apparitions and, so, feared the evolution. The Technology in this period was essentially related to Mechanics, and not really scientifically elaborated assumptions. The period next to the Middle Age were so productive that we call it the Renaissance, allowing us to understand that, if the dogmas in Middle Age hadn’t proliferated, society would be more technologically developed.

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The Technological Development of Japan

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Sunday, December 9, 2012

Greater Tokyo Area
            Between the years of 1868 and 1945, the Oriental Empire known as Japan experienced a large economical and cultural transformation, refraining from the feudal ideals which ruled along centuries.
            Today, Japan is a country with a large social development, perhaps the most developed nation in terms of technology. This considerable development enabled Japan to exercise its influence around the rest of the world. Nowadays, the anime and the manga became popular between children and even adults, even more than American and European cartoons. Also, the videogames produced in Japan gain fans in the whole world. Most of the fiction created in Japan reflects its technological development, which influences the ideas of a creative artist like Akira Toriyama.

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