Wikileaks.

By Sylvia Godoi

In my opinion I think that the creation of the WikiLeaks website is a revelation that has left the world shocked by the content of their publications, which express the abuses that  have been committed by large countries, such as the United States, on other smaller countries, and other series of criminal acts that have been committed by major figures in political and social history of the world, who have even claimed the lives of thousands of people, or, as Julian Assange (founder of Wikileaks page)has said, millions of lives over the years. Seems to be ironic that criminalize these acts and say that Mr. Julian Assange has endangered the lives of those involved in these acts, because in my opinion this argument is very weak, if is contrasted with the effects that these countries have caused.

From this I think that the world needs WikiLeaks, if people want to live in countries where democracy is something pure and not only the speeches and initially good intentions, because people need to know the truth about events that have not been disclosed transparently, which in my opinion also hurts people's rights and dignity to not be deceived by public figures, whom believes that are representing us, wanting the best for us. Well, now the downside of these publications is that people tend to think that these acts of corruption or abuses of power are widespread, causing panic and disappointment among the population, however this is due to the same governments who do not transparent their actions, generating distrust in the general opinion, further compounding the error of governments, as all these facts were revealed at once, so the people know some terrible news and unable to forget, or assimilate them , take knowledge of others more, so the effect tends to be accumulated  and, in a final point, cause all this efects.

The WikiLeaks revelations undoubtedly affected the relations between countries, and are generating mistrust, because this revelation transposed physical, social and cultural boundaries, even being heard by people in other countries, generating a global effect. This point, in my point of view, is the most important feature of the web side, because of the impact that a simple publication can cause.

On another topic, this type of publications has caused the imprisonment of the people who published them, an that clearly is a threat to all those who want to disclose these facts of injustice, governments also, knowing that this is part of freedom expression, is trying to act outside of law criminalizing people if they talk the truth. I think this attack is a government strategy to silence the truth, destroying freedom of expression in all its forms and this is not justifiable.

In my opinion, governments have tended to think that their wishes are more important than the wishes of the people they claim to represent and have forgotten an undeniable truth, that is these same people, who they are trying to manipulate and deceive with false promises and hidden acts, who should be represented, heard and obeyed by governments, which were elected by them.

Stefan v/s Kramer”: a disappointed movie for Chilean people

By María de los Ángeles Miranda

     To start I will say first that I have never been a girl who likes to watch many movies, I have always preferred to do other things like go dancing or as a child to play outside my house, I never liked being cooped up watching television , I always go with my friends or my mom. That's why I have little experience to tell if a movie is bad or good.

what I can say is that I had high expectations of the movie "Stefan v / s Kramer" and I think it was a bit disapointed to see it, I expected it to be more entertaining as all Chileans know that imitation is a genius kramer expecting much more. which was released on August 2, 2012 and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

     For you can understand a little more I'll tell you who is Kramer. He is an imitator, actor, comedian and broadcaster of Chile. Coming from a family of German Swiss descendants of Araucanía Region, Kramer is well known in Chile for copying with very similar tones, tones of voice, gestures and expressions of dozens of characters Chilean and international environmental, such as entertainers, singers, politicians, athletes, sports commentators and general non sense characters. Successfully participated in the second night of the Festival of Viña de Mar 2008. In a routine that lasted nearly 90 minutes, imitated to 33 characters. The audience cheered and rewarded him with two torches (silver and gold) and a gaviota.1 Several television programs have benefited Chile that produces good hearing Kramer's routine and have repeated countless times without receiving comedian any financial remuneration. In 2010 encourage with Felipe Camiroaga   a show that’s calls the Falcon and Chameleon in TVN, with which achieved great success. The most imitations have been characterized with costumes and makeup, but at other times Stefan Kramer has only imitated the voice and gestures without characterized.

     I did not like the movie because the plot was not very good and could not  a very good story with so many imitations involved, was as false and fantastic series. I find that not imitated so well this time and that new characters were missing because we know by heart all the routines that showed. I also believe that the wife center much history and we're not very interested in her, wanting more than kramer. That's why I think the movie was not very good, because Kramer is a very talented to imitate but despite that the director was Leonardo Prieto kramer apparently gave many ideas and were not very good.

Mirror, Mirror... in my opinion, a not recommended movie!

This movie it's like a remake of the classical movie “Snow White”, but not in a entire way.  I mean, in the traditional version of the story. In that point, this film starts and develops weird, because you always think in the old version but has some new things that, in my case, doesn´t really match with the idea or concept of Snow White.

However. the truth is this movie has a great cast. One of their stars is Julia Roberts, a incredible and famous actress. Lily Collins plays Snow White, the main character. She's young but  achieved fame for some movies like "The blind side" in 2009. The name of the director is Tarsem Singh. Another movie known of him is “The cell” with Jeniffer López.

Well, I saw this movie about a few months ago, like May in  a cinema. Me and my friend, bought the ticket of this movie because we had to make time and was the only film that the cinema were giving in that moment. At that moment, I had no problem with seeing this movie. Actually  I thought, ok, not think it's bad ... I see some good actors, the plot is sure to be funny ... ok, let's go.

So we went into the room, waiting for the start. I think at the first 30 minutes I was ok, with expectation for how the plots were going to be. As when she was going to meet with the 7 dwarfs, if the prince fall in love with the wicked queen, if he had a sad ending or something no one would expect. A lot of expectations for the movie how you can see.

But nothing of that happened in this film! It was so boring! Really, for me, this movie lasted years and years. Almost, my friend falls asleep in my arms! It was really bad.

I think the plot is very slow and without much emotion in their scenes. Clearly, in many parts one knows what will happen because it's a familiar story, but new that could add that it was too much, I could not make you feel an emotion or intrigue, or simply one that was not hit with the rest of the film.

I know the movie is aimed at young children but I have seen another movies for this segment, and they aren´t like this! They have a lot more action and movement!

At only different thing that I remember and maybe caused some impact or novelty, was when Snow White fights with a really strange dragon bird that wanted to kill her, and inside this “animal” was the soul of her father. I I think that might be a good change or addition to the plot but still for me wasn’t entirely convinced or create a good story. For me, Snow White was still a strange and poorly arranged.

I think that obviously, I didn't like the movie, practically in nothing. I think a little girl who is her first time for seeing and known about the story of  Snow White, maybe likes this movie and  can find out more good elements and scenes than me.

Anyway, I saw all the movie and I made my wait more “entertaining” that day, but my friend weren't very happy with our choice of movie. He just told me: we could have eaten an ice cream and be more happiest and keep us awake!

by Verónica Waldron 

The Wizard Of Oz: a movie of many feelings!

The truth is that long ago when I was  a child I saw many movies, every day saw a movie and almost all saw more three times, I was a quiet girl and I liked for example “The Little Mermaid” , “The beautiful and the Beast”,” Aladdin”,  and among others that I cant remember right now. Watch movies was one of my biggest hobbies and I enjoyed it a lot, meanwhile my mom was happy that I stayed indoors and not go out as much as other children. However I was a very sensitive child and things affect me very much, if a movie was sad I cried and cried nonstop, or where certain bad things came out I was really scared, then I used to dream nightmares later in the night and woke up at midnight and I used to go  to my parents' bed. I remember that something strange was going on with the movie "The Wizard Oz" because I loved that movie and I think I saw at least ten times in my childhood, but at the same time I was really scared that movie by the witch that appeared and monkeys that had slaves, I was really scared that the swirl also kept house, because although Dorothy was a dream I thought everything was real and very scary that this could happen to my house. Besides the fact of losing my house was something that terrified me and I was always afraid that because my mom had that fear and now I think that she transfered to me. Although not a film that I will talk hate the Wizard of Oz, because although it was a movie that I liked but its cost a lot of bad dreams that brought me during my childhood. This film was created in 1939.The starring was Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. The management were involved in Victor Fleming, Mervyn LeRoy, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor.The film is based on the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

The movie had parts that I would take of for the mental health of the children who see it, for example at the beginning when carrying the puppy dorothy, that part I didn´t like because I remember that I had a dog when I was a child that had been taken  also so  I suffered a lot and I quess that happens to many children in the world, then that happen in the movie saddened me because it reminded to me of my bad experience,  also  Dorothy cried in despair and I don’t think that’s can be  good for a child to see that. Another part that I didn´t liked was a witch when it drop a house as shown above and you shrink the feet, that image I really dont  know why but appeared many times in my dreams.

Obviously everything about the witch terrified me, from their appearance to their shouts and laughter. But the part that I liked least was when the witch was burned, I was very scared that scene. Finally, the part that it was desapointed to me  was when the magician doesn´t has real powers, it gave me a lot of anger as a child and  of course didn´t understood the true meaning of that, I just  cried of rage and thinking that Dorothy would not return home.

 

By María de los Ángeles Guerra Owen

Circumcision: a controversial topic

By Maria de los Ángeles Guerra

Circumcision involves cutting a portion of the penile foreskin covering the glans, leaving him permanently .The most common reasons for circumcision are religious, cultural or medical. In 2006, according to who estimates, 30% of men in the world was circumcised, 68% of them are muslims . In Judaism, this ritual is called Brit Milah. Although not mentioned in the Qur'an, circumcision is practiced throughout the Islamic world.

A little of history...Circumcision is mentioned in the V century. C. by Herodotus, that the names in the second book of his Histories and attributed its origin to the Egyptians. This origin seems confirmed by the numerous archaeological remains, the oldest is an engraving of the tomb of Ankhamahor (between 2300 and 2200 a Representing a circumcision performed with a flint stone in a man standing.The oldest practice is widespread in Judaism, whose realization is a mandatory practice for over 4500 years, when the patriarch Abraham was circumcised by a divine order as the biblical texts and times of the stories.

In the United States, is often done before the baby leaves the hospital. Circumcision has medical benefits and risks. Possible benefits include reduced risk of urinary tract infections, penile cancer and sexually transmitted diseases. Risks include pain and low risk of bleeding or infection.

Well, in my opinion I think it ´s a practice that isn´t necessary and that babies can´t decide, so it's not fair, I think it should be done at an age when men could decide if they really want to do it or not. Well,the true it has many benefits such as hygiene or prevent contagion of disease or other infections, however I think it's part of a ritual and I think that rituals have destroyed societies and religions have made just a frustration, because when there are such sacrifices other people evade quer areas of religion can be good, Judaism is a sect full of rituals and a very closed circle and that does not seem right, I think we all are equal and have the same rights. I think it's very common in religions perform rituals in babies and also spoke of baptism for example, in the Catholic religion baptize babies who do not know what they are doing and are not aware of what happens, I believe that religion is a desicion to be taken with a conscience to be true. I think that's why it has caused so many problems in the world, because a baby can not decide what you want and not just bring it to pass that way. True, there may be a hygienic practice, however it is something that man must decide when it is aware. I think that nature is wise and if the body is in a way is because they have to stay, I do not think it's good to surgically alter it unless it is for medical reasons.

Perfect Sense: An interesting Love Story

By Maria de los Ángeles Guerra Owen

To start talking about the movie first give a brief introduction

Perfect Sense is a movie at times surprising and in many issues, sometimes it was a little shocking because its had strong images on the subject of strange disease.The movie is a love story that takes place in a setting quite controvesial, and unleashed a virus that produced quite contagious and symptoms unimaginable, what was produced was the loss of the senses that slowly trapping people  desperate to recover, the cities were devastated by such behaviors and destroyed lives and places.The love story is not given as typical of those we see in other movies, because the stage is not ideal and the woman was a serious scientific and somewhat confused, second man was a fun and friendly chef. when they met she was very heavy with it and do not take into account, one could say that it was impolite to close the window as abruptly as he had been very kind to her.Was all very strange because they could have a very good time but the next day she woke very serious, I think in real life so a woman would cost a man fall in love.In short the story was intense and interesting.
I think it goes without saying shocking parts of the movie, for example part that caught my attention and I think I was disgusted when the disease make that the infected an insatiable hunger, people seemed to animals and was a little gross view scenes.I must admit that at that time quize stop watching the movie or advance it to another scene.But also parts that I liked  as when they kissed with masks on, I think that scene was very symbolic and summarized the full movie.

I think Susan was taken quite professional disease, since it is true that his first symptom was the attack and did not stop crying all night the next day she realized it was the virus and relaxed, did not despair as showed in other people and continued his life and trying to solve the serious problem attacking the world.In the movie the show always very calm despite everything happening yet she seemed depressed, I think the disease and especially the very depressed when he left Michael, that affected him deeply because she had no family.

In my opinion Michael was a little affection disease, the symptoms were stronger or at least more harmful, as when Susan became aggressive and she let him.Also when he lost his voice and could not speak or hear the truth maybe that scene is not understood if he could not hear or hear, well in the film only shows that he was desperate and very sad for Susan, as he realized he was in love and that it needed.I think in that sense the movie was very realistic because love is never perfect and always brings suffering.In life when you decide to fall in love too must assume the risk that entails.

If he were to lose my senses I would act with desperation, as they are absolutely necessary and I think birth is harder to lose them all, because one becomes dependent on them and know the world with them, to me a lack of awareness and live and I need all my senses to do as I want.

“People prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

They concentrate to the things that are important to them..

all the things beyond fact and flower.”

On these words identified by the narrator i can say that is very true, people must be prepared for the worst ever, because life always brings problems that we must to confront with hard and temperance.However I also believe that hope is one of the most important things in life, one must have hope always to fight and expect things to work quietly, as people who have no hope that they become depressed and cause more problem and can sink into a bottomless black hole that will not let you leave until you do not choose to leave and hope is crucial because it is what helps us out and troubleshoot.

About that which states that each person concentrates on his stuff I think it is very true, humans often tend to be very selfish and concerned only for our welfare and when we remember the rest is when we need them, I it's time to start worrying about others and that many people need companionship and love that are not receiving.

The movie that I hated the most: Mr. Popper's Penguins

By: SYLVIA GODOI REYES

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a film released in June 2011, the director was Mark Waters and its cast included actors like Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll and others.

Mr. Popper's Penguins tells the story of Tommy Popper, who as a child was every night waiting for the time to communicate with his father through a radio, because this was the only way to talk to him, due to tours around the world that his father was doing all the time, so did not have much physical contact.

 Today Mr. Popper is a successful salesman in the city of Manhattan. He is divorced, with two children from his previous marrige, and lives in a luxury apartment located in the center of the city, where lives a comfortable, quiet and carefree life.

Popper`s two children are called Madeline and Max. Popper only has contact with them from time to time, and don’t shows a real interest in them.

When his life was in perfect conditions, and he thinks that nothing can be better in his life, Popper receives a wooden box that his father had left him before he died along with a letter, which contained the last words and wishes that his father wanted to tell him in person, but the circumstances had made it impossible.

When he opened the box, Popper saw that inside was a figure, life-size, of a penguin, which seemed very unappealing and tasteless. He thought that this figure could even be a toy that his father had sent from his last trip.

When popper back home that same day he realized that the penguin was not a toy, but a real penguin that was screaming and sliding down the department. It was a big surprise when he realized it that it was not just a penguin, but several more inside the box.

Eventually popper and his sons began to love the penguins, who teach them a lesson that was stay together as a family and support each other no matter what happen.

Even when Mr. Popper's Penguins is a film for all viewers and has a white humor, I found it very boring. I thought that if the film was performed by Jim Carrey this would be much more fun and I would laugh more often during the show.

Perhaps the actor was trying to turn around his career, however see Jim Carrey in this type of film, in my opinion, creates expectations that are not met at the end. Jim seems to me that not only did not identify himself with the character, but his career did not generate synergies with this film in particular, synergies that were reflected even in dramatic films such as “number 23”, but these movies are a clear reflection that Jim is having a bad time in his career. Another point that I did not like was the slow flow of the film, nothing happened in the first hour to make you laugh or to that makes a significant contribution to the story, however I think that the main reason of my disappointment with the film was the great expectation that I had in it based on its cast and advertising. There is nothing worse than paying for something and get something else.