Articles in English
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You shall love, whether you like it or not. A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth…
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The best place on earth is not British Columbia or Switzerland. The best place on earth is the place in your heart where you can feel at home, where memories are stored and where your future is promised. Actually, the best place on earth is a heart full of hope for the new world to…
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There was a time when a University degree assured you a of good job, good pay and a comfortable life. Not any more. Today, the unemployment rate for young people in this country is close to 15% – double that of the general population. But the real crisis is the increasing number of university and…
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Stalker (1979). Source: Open Culture The Artist exists because the world is not perfect! Art is born out of an ill-designed world. Through the image is sustained an awareness of the infinite: the eternal within the finite, the spiritual within matter, the limitless given form. (A. Tarkovsky) In the beginning was the word. Why Papa? (the little…
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We shape our tools, and there after they shape us. (John M. Culkin) I’ve read The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) and I remembered Plato. In Phaedrus’s dialogue (sect. 274-275), Plato presents a story about the invention of letters by Thoth. This new skill is a…