Bruno Pardo Porto: going to the cinema

I went to the movie theater on Thursday and there were no tickets left. A chill of nostalgia hit me. I revisited Friday to watch “Sundays,” a recognition that this is no longer a movie but a topic, and that what someone projects still matters. … On a big screen in a dark room. Arauda Luis de Azua It made us think about the mission of teenagers, today Martians, who leave this world and enter a monastery, after which they discuss the matter at length. I see people discussing faith, family, the reactions of a father who doesn’t exist, the love of an aunt who doesn’t understand or exist. And therein we find the deep, estranged meaning of the story, and the reason why we are inevitably drawn to fiction. This is what he said about the movie: tarkovskyyou end up looking for time that was lost, time that ran away, or time that you haven’t yet gained. We go to the movies especially to live a life we ​​will never experience, but movies still interest us. because? This is because the ego loses its possessiveness after adolescence, but the desire for conversation does not disappear. Culture is the conversations we continue to have around the fire.

Alejandro González IñárrituHe complained a few days ago about all the space and time and energy we spend talking about movie box office sales, something that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. “This collective insanity against everything that has nothing to do with cinema is brutal. All this is detrimental to the joy of cinema, to the joy of people,” he stressed. There’s something sad about all the articles written tracking global box office receipts as if they were the vital signs of a patient in intensive care. Deep down, they confuse the movie business with movies themselves, which is like confusing bottled water with the ocean. Los Domingos didn’t need to reach a streaming platform to become a phenomenon.A house full of dynamite” and so on. The question is whether these industry details should be of that much interest to us as viewers. I can almost stop thinking about the implications of a possible nuclear attack on the United States, or what would happen to that teenager who entered the convent that Sunday today.

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