The Dreamers- a movie

Another frensh movie who is not new but still one of those I like to watch as the story is quite a different way written what you are used to.  A movie in the tradition of the art nuevo and in the way like "Breathless" (-Á bout de souffle-) with  Paul Belmondo.
The story is quite easy told. Three young people, all students come together, live together, love each other, try all they can and are little rebells in their heart but one of them more then the other two. Two are sisters and one is a friend who comes inside thier home. What does begin with fun is becoming complicated and the danger beetween them starts to grow as they become not only philisophical and are much into art and literature, they become more and more political and so the weel of future starts to turn faster and faster. Expect the most fun, but also the challange of looking through the eyes of those three people. Where will you find yourself and how can this end. Turned on by the sexyness and fun you will come to the state of mind that you can't decide what side you're on and in the end you won't be sure but sure as well. 
A movie I can recommend for all those who like the outsiders, who likes to look and watch over the ocean and who are into open minds. For the others, this is a chance to open yourself for a new way. There will be no boring minute and you can follow the story but it may touch you somewhere inside you never guessed. 
I saw that film years ago and discoverd it through a friend again. Wonder how I could miss that good movie.
It's maybe not a movie for x-mass and not something to buy for a friend, but just for you to try it.
My second recommendation of the day and it's frensh- again. 
 
Love & Light

Five year Engagement- a movie

A film with Jason Segel from the sitcom - How I met your mother-  A comedy that's for sure and it is a very typical hollywood style version. 

They tried obviously to make a version like screw ball, but it did not work out that way. It's very low key a- like made and thought the idea of a couple who is going to marry, but never has the time for it is quite something you can make a movie with, if you have good writers and the right way of producing it. 

Sadly, as this is fun to watch, but it is easy going fun, you don't keep the movie in mind after seeing it. It has as it is so typical nowadays also a bit drama, but to be earnest- a kind of let's have a drama, but don't have a drama thing. The actors play well and fit each other and it is joy to watch them but you won't miss it, if you let it be and buy another movie. On the other side it is the perfect movie for a girls night at home or a friends party night. The movie can be watched and commended and you can eat and drink and won't have hard follow the story. The dialoges are very easy and so no need to let your brain work. 

The cut and rest of the making of the movie is good but .. yeah... just good.

Anyway you won't be harmed watching it, but won't miss it too. Either way it is worth the look.

Have a nice time...

LOVE & LIGHT

once there was a wall, 25 years ago...

..and people lived in two countries, even thought the language was the same and the history their shared was quite common but different too. How the past made them living a live with borders and under the law and orders of others by many own mistakes. People had an idea of how the other side could be but surely most did never really knew. Not to mention all the countries next to them in east and west. Families where parted and places got a wall in the middle of a garden. Things were suddenly forbidden and stayed it for a very long time. Two systems did grow out of one big country after a war, who was called the world war 2. 

And there was this big town, called Berlin who got a wall around its western side and so there was a wall right through the middle of this town. 

People lived with it. Oh they did question this, died because of this crazy thing standing in the way. 

Propaganda leaded a long way the thoughts of mankind in those two very different countries who represent two different system of politic. The capitalism and the socialism. At the end, none of them survived. None of them had really the common people in mind. But both were capable of war, even it was just a cold war but it did contain the rise of dangerous weapons and lies who are still in this world.

I was a child growing up in the eastern part of Berlin. I had my aunt in the western part and she came once every year to visit us but that never gave me an impression how her life was. 

I just knew our way of living in the east with all the socialism and propaganda, even though I had parents who happened to be critical and so I had a hunch of that not everything was alright. I mean I was a teenager when the time came up that the wall should be fallen. Too young to understand what this could mean and to understand what the politics did, but I realized a bit this and that. I knew the punks in our street and I knew some areas has been forbidden. I grew up with soldiers walking in front of our garden as we had our garden near the wall. I was quite open minded as we had family living in the western world and so I knew that it could not be all just bad. They may tried to give a bad expression t.ex.  about USA but I never really thought bad about them then. But most of us never knew how bad the situation in the eastern countries were, as this came up after the wall has been destroyed. 

But back to the time it all began. The demonstration came into my mind through TV as in Berlin we were able to watch the west channels and as people later waited in Prag I had a feeling of something important was happening. I saw all those people fleeing into the west through Austria and even my bio- teacher went away that time. In school suddenly most of my friends started speaking up openly and we discussed what we knew and this was more or lesson different to the background we knew.

When it was clear the people could visit the west part, my family stayed home as in the beginning it was not clear if we could come back, but after two weeks, no one believed that the wall is going to be closed again. In the same time all the demonstration became bigger and so my family followed that. In the middle of Berlin I was there too. But mostly with the help of TV. 

Nearly next to three weeks after the gates were open we went to the west part, taking the underground to visit my aunt. Strange feeling as so many people from the east went on to see how was it down there in the west sector. 

Many things happened then good and bad and many people went blind by money and lies but mostly my family was clever enough to take it slow and to take the chances they could catch. We knew the industry was in no good health even know we did not expect it to be so much better then in Poland and Russia or the other eastern countries who broke down so  deep that it was a big surprise for all. 

I am by myself very grateful that this happened, because what would I do today? I don't know as people who were disabled were people of second class even in socialism. My choice of a job was poor, really poor and bad. I had to ask for a chance to move to another country, but what had happened to my family? 

So... it was for me the best that could happen. 

25 years ago and it's not a long time, even though for mankind it is. 

25 years and so many things have changed and so many more mistakes have been done and so many chances have been gone for a country who should have known better, but so it is and the hard way is to take now. Well, could be worse.

25 years and I am no longer a child a teen but a man who looks back and wonders.

Send you all out there from the past and the future and the now

Love & Light 

picture taken short time after the wall was broken

The Signature of all things- a book

After all the DVDs, maybe you want to buy a book for x-mas or for a birthday? Then I can recommend my new discovery!

Elisabeth Gilbert surely known as the writer of  -Eat, Pray, Love-  has given out a new book and it's a big one. It's different to the last one but also keeps the track on the growing theme. It's a book about a women who has the luck to be a kid of a rich father and therefore be able to discover many things by herself as this plays in a time where women had less then zero education. 

It's a story of a family and a women growing in and out of it and how she discover that there is more then being a smart mind. 

As with eat, pray, love- Elisabeth is able to express with a rich language and a lot of understandable pictures her story and the journey you follow with it. 

This book is in no way a women(s) book as it contains adventure, the jungle, a rising Philadelphia and the old Europe and science from that time. 

It's not a love story book, but a book about reconnecting mind, body and soul with the help of nature and other people. 

I sure had not a single boring minute reading it and it was not a bit to much or uncomfortable to read, thought with next to 600 pages, it took its time. 

Just the much alive picture you get from our past and history is so much fun to read. 

I just hope that this book will be better translated into other languages then - eat, pray, love-  as those bad translations killed the book. Especially the german translation was catastrophic. 

You see it was and is a New York Times Bestseller, but that does not mean a book is good. 

Here I can say it is. Refreshing use of language- not too complicated, not too simple- and a story who surprise you and while reading you wonder what's next as this book has so many pages. The book is also written in a way so you can understand the upcoming things. Which I really liked as it also did ad a lot of color to the book and you are able to learn some more things in the same time. Yes, you can discover a new world that way and relate to it. 

And after all it is a book of hope, which in the end will tell you it is never to late to change or just be better then you are now. A book for long travels or holidays? Absolute, as you travel in time and space with this book. 

Also I think this book is most needed in our time- as it is about education for all and about education of mind and soul! And it is about equality. It is not that long ago that we started to fight for just those things. Just now we have a backlash and so this reminder is very much appreciate. 

Have fun reading it self or give it to someone who'll will have the luck to enjoy these letters.

Love & Light

Tango Libré- a movie

Und weil wir gerade so schön bei französischen Filmen sind... Hier ein Film der den Tango als roten Faden hat. Ja, ein französischer Film erzählt sich seine Geschichte des Lebens mit Hilfe des Tangos. Interessante Kombination. 

Auf den Film bin ich durch den Schauspieler Francoise Damiens gekommen, der schon bei Natalie Küsst die männliche Hauptrolle übernommen hatte. 

Hier geht es um drei Männer, alle mit dem Gefängnis verhaftet, sowohl vor den Gitterstäben, als auch dahinter und wie könnte es beim Tango anders sein, so ist es auch ein Film um Liebe, Begehrlichkeiten und in diesem Falle, drei Männer und eine Frau. 

Keine Komödie, aber ein Film der zu Herzen geht, jedoch weder Kitschig ist, noch sich endlos in Tanzszenen abspielt. Der Tango ist eher das verbindende und zur Verständigung beitragende Element. Er wird Mittel der Eroberung, der Konkurrenz und schliesslich der Befreiung. So tanzt sich der Film ähnlich einem Tango um seine Figuren, nähert und entfernt sich ihnen, ergreift sie brutal und schmeichelt ihnen wieder. 

Dies ist durchaus eine Herausforderung, wenn man schön gemalte Filme aus Hollywood gewöhnt ist.

Auch braucht es bei einigen Szenen durchaus den Willen des Zuschauers, sich mit weniger schönen Bildern abzugeben und Realitäten wahr zu nehmen, die diese Figuren umgibt. Meist ruhig erzählt, versinkt der Film aber nicht im Sand und nimmt zum Ende hin Fahrt auf. Vom Cover her mag man einen etwas romantischeren Film erwarten, in mehr freundlicheren Farben, aber da täuscht man sich. Auch ist dies weder ein Tanzfilm, noch ein Tango Film. Jedoch ein Film mit wunderbaren Schauspielern und der Frage, wie weit wirst du gehen? 

LOVE & LIGHT