Catch me if you can

“Catch me if you can” is a comedy film of Steven Spilberg starred by Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks.

It is about a fraud man who makes himself to pass through pilot, doctor, lawyer, and other jobs in only 21 years old.

Near all this situation there is a FBI police (Tom Hanks) that keeps an eye on him.

However, this young man seems to be cleverer because every time that is in danger of being captured, he achieved to escape. Making all these frauds Frank W. Abagnale (Leonardo Dicaprio) gets to earn a lot of money, but on the other hand he lost his father.

There are lots of funny moments, he gets the place of director of an hospital and he doesn’t know anything about medicine… and the most important thing: he flies around the world free!

Finally, police capture him, taking him to prison.

If I have chosen this film, it is because it’s a very amusing one which you can watch wherever you are, because it’s sure that you will get entertained.

The perfum

This is one of my favourite books and I have already read it twice.
The story takes place in the 18th century in France. It's about a man who has got an extra developed sense of smell and first he started creating incredible perfums which smell so good. But lately, he wants to create a special fragance, the best in the worl, and to do this, he doesn't need flowers, he needed young and beautiful girls. Jean-Baptiste, which is his name, thinks that young girls have got the best smell of the world and he wants to posses that. Then, he became a murder who kills the most beautiful girls in France and after he covers them with fat to extract their smells. Finally, he gets his goal but he is caught by the police and the people decide to kill him. But when he is ready to be killed, he opens the bottle with the perfum in it and the people, when they smell that excelent creation decide to let him free. Jean-Baptiste returs to Paris but there he feels that his live hasn't any sense and he decide to die.

DANGEROUS MINDS

“Dangerous Minds” is an execellent drama movie. It was directed by John N. Smithry Buckheimer.
The story takes place in one area in Northern California.

The most important character is LouAnne Johnson, who leaves a nine-year military career to try as an English teacher in a high school.

There, she has to teach a “special” group of students who change her live. And she changes theirs too.

LouAnne becomes Hal's friend. Hal is another teacher. LouAnne teaches and helps her students not only as a teacher; she was also a friend for them.

Carla becomes pregnant and she decides to leave school. LouAnne tries to convince her about not to do that because she is a great student, although she doesn't think so and wants to waste her intelligence.

But finally the teacher can't do anything. After that, Emilio is killed by a man who wants to separe Emilio and his girlfriend. It saddens LouAnne very much and she decides to communicate her students that she is going to leave school. They don't think it's a good idea and they finally convince her to stay, because they need her.

They say that she's like their pusher, because she has the goods, the help that they need. And LouAnne doesn't leave.

She's proud of them and she finally decides to stay. The objective of this film is to make us learn that you always have to go on, happens what happens.
I really enjoyed it and I’ve seen it many times. It's one of my favourite films and I think much people need to see it, because they like it very much.

Las trece rosas

Las trece rosas is a film which explains a true story from the franquist's epoque. It shows us the difficultyof living in Spain at that time if you didn't think as Franco.

In this movie thirteen women ,whose age was between nineteen an twenty-four, were condemned to die because of taking part of JSU ( juventudes socialistas unidas) which was against Franco's ideology.

This story takes part in Madrid when the civil war was finished, in 1939. All of these women were couturier from a modest family which has lost some of their members in the war. The only thing that these girls wanted taking part of JSU was enjoy with the sport activities that it had. However, they tried to put off Franco's arrival in Madrid giving people papers where "menos Franco y más pan blanco" was written. This fact made them go to the prison.

After being some months in prison these bold, fighters and full of happiness women were killed, they were innocent.

Spain in becoming more and more like THE USA

Americans have lot of influence in the European countries. We are importing their culture and although most of them don’t think about it, we could live in the USA like in Spain without differences.

Spain, like each European country, is becoming more and more like the United States of America because, on second thoughts, we would realise that we are rounded by them. Actually, we has imported all their technology and we use lots of things that are made in America. Moreover, we are copying their programms and the basic structure of our media is similar to theirs.

Every European people wears American trends: Nike, Levi's... Nowadays, we frecuently have fast food, what means that we are losing our Mediterranean diet, in spite of being considered as the healthiest. Also our shops seem American, for instance, lots of department stores are being established, and the ways of marketing are the same, therefore we can buy the same products here than in USA.

In my opinion, the main reason which could explain this influence would be the mass media. Most of the films that we watch are made in the USA, and the same happens with advertisement. It means that we act like them.

To sum up, we had colonised them 500 years before, but at the moment we are becoming a part of their huge imperialism.

An adapted mixture

It isn’t a normal book. It mixes an interesting story with the knowledge of a distant culture. Its name is “Memorias de una Geisha”.

It’s based in a real story of a geisha in Japan. Geishas, in Japan, are women who share funny meetings with important men and they make them enjoy parties. They aren’t prostitutes as almost everybody says, they are artist as their name’s meaning.

This book explains a famous geisha’s experience, what the geisha life was like and how did she feel working. It is set in a little village of Japan in 1900 more a less. At that time, geishas were in all the men’s parties playing instruments, dancing, talking... They had to follow a hard education to be able to work as a geisha besides succedding. Being a geisha although the effort it supposed was a chance for every girl.

This book made me cry and feel the emotions of the protagonist' situations. Although, it has a happy end the story is so hard and sometimes very sad. Anyway there are amazing situations which made me laugh, for these reasons and more and more and so on I recommend this book for everybody who wants to have a good time and learn about the Japanese culture which is very interesting.

HUMAN TRADE

Human Trade (Tráfico Humano) is a real film about the human trade that affects our world. The director shows in it how these kind of traffics are made.

The film is based on a true story in the west countries. The group of criminals organized a fashion model contest. All the girls were very exited with the contest because that could be an oportunity to visit the United States. Most of them are between sixteen to twenty-five years old but there were also younger girls.

That criminal company of human trade owned lots of brothels but they ough to be on hiding places. The story is about some main characters who are victims of the traffic. These women are sexualy raped and physicaly abused.

Finally, the FBI catched the group. Some of the victims had been killed by the criminals and others are in proces to recovering their lives.

On the end of the film, previously of seeing the name of the director, actors.... it said that every year in all the world are traded with 800.000 people!!!

I recomend you this film because it shows a world real problem, but you have to be very strong because of their cruel realism.