Big Love

Mormon theology is a form of restorationism that shares a common set of beliefs with the rest of the Latter Day Saint movement, including use of the Bible, the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. It also has a history of teaching eternal marriage, eternal progression, and plural marriage, although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had abandoned the practice by the early 20th century. Under the doctrine of revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus leads the church by revealing his will to the President of the Church, whom they sustain as a modern-day prophet, seer, and revelator. Individual members are expected to receive personal revelation from God for specifics in conducting their lives.
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*Acabo de ver as tres primeiras tempadas de Big Love (máis info, na HBO e na wikipedia) e non sei. Si, pero non. Aprender algo máis sobre os mormóns é interesante e algunhas personaxes molan, pero bótase en falta algunha dobrez, algunha evolución. Ao final parece unha espiral, dando voltas sobre o mesmo ata o infinito. Non sei se seguir coa cuarta, faise algo aburrida.

Lugares Comunes

Fernando: Experiencia no implica conocimiento... Yo no sé nada de mujeres.

Tutti: Y eso es una mentira elegante... Un caballero no habla de ciertas cosas.

Fernando: Las pocas mujeres que conocí en mi vida, las admiré, las observé, intenté descifrarlas... Nunca dejaron de ser un misterio. Nunca dejaron de sorprenderme. Pero lo único importante es disfrutar de su presencia. No me di cuenta enseguida, pero... un tiempito después aprendí a escucharlas, a valorar los silencios, las miradas; esos momentos en los que parece que no pasa nada y pasa un mundo... Aprendí a respetar su intuición, su inteligencia... y aprendí a amarlas.

Tutti: Le quiero advertir que el nivel de mis defensas está bajando peligrosamente... No se pueden decir esas cosas así, como si nada.

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*Aristarain sempre volve.

Broken

House: Why did you kiss me?
Lydia: How many reasons are there? I like you. It felt like a nice way of showing you that.

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*Din que non hai nada máis atractivo que a felicidade xenuína e, sen embargo, a algunhas persoas encántannos os seres tristes e escuros.
**O primeiro episodio da sexta temporada de House é a mellor película que vin en bastante tempo. E si, Lydia é Franka Potente.

The Lady from Shanghai

With these mirrors is difficult to tell. You are aiming at me, aren't you? I am aiming at you, lover. Of course, killing you is killing myself. It's the same thing. But, you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us.

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*E outra de Orson Welles. The Lady from Shanghai (1947), que foi un fracaso no seu tempo. Ao público non lle gustou o cambio de look de Rita Hayworth e á crítica non lle gustou a historia. O propio produtor, o mítico Harry Cohn, dixo que era incapaz de entendela e ofreceulle mil dólares a calquera que puidera explicarlla. Nin sequera Welles foi capaz. A min encántame esta película. Sobre todo, esta escena. Ao mellor é porque me intriga a relación que mantiñan Rita Hayworth e Orson Welles. Hai unha frase gloriosa que dixo ela unha vez para definirse a si mesma e a súa relación cos homes: "Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities".

The third man

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo - Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance... In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?... The cuckoo clock.

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*The third man dirixiuna Carol Reed, con guión de Graham Green, en 1949. A frase que cito non estaba no guión orixinal. Engadiuna Orson Welles e, segundo parece, despois recoñeceu que nin é certo que os suízos viviran felices e en paz na época dos Borgia nin que inventaran o reloxo de cuco.

In Treatment

I was looking at her. Looking at every inch of her body. And I said to my self: Who the hell is this woman, sleeping in the sofa, in front of the TV? What the hell does she know about me? What does she think she knows about me? And what the hell am I doing, living with her in the same living room in the same house with the same kids for the last 15 years?

Understand?
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*Cheguei a In Treatment en plena resaca de Mad Men, seguindo os sempre sabios consellos de Ascárida, e papei sete episodios seguidos, sen respirar. É emocionante intensa intelixente contida. Encántanme a brevidade e a estrutura narrativa. Estou enganchadirma. A este non lle gusta tanto, advirto

I think I wrote that. It was to sell nylons.

-"She won't get married because she's never been in love." I think I wrote that. It was to sell nylons.



-For a lot of people, love isn't just a slogan.

-Oh, "love". You mean the big lightning bolt to the heart, where you can't eat, can't work, so you run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call "love" was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.

-Is that right?

-I'm pretty sure about it. You're born alone, you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one.
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*Comecei onte a ver Mad men e alucinei. É gloriosa. O malo é que non fun capaz de atopar o clip de vídeo. Se podedes, descargade ou vede o piloto (aqui, por exemplo).