Monday, November 16, 2015

Nome próprio

I don't usually go to the theatre. Is is more expansive than the movies and it has not many sessions per day.
But last weekend I went to see "Nome próprio", a comedy about a group of friends that meet for dinner and talk about the name that one of the couples is going to give to their unborn son.
The dinner soon turns into a fight and some truths being said.
The actors are very good and the text is well written. It is a good adaptation of the french play.
Not to miss!

The Girl in the Spider's Web

Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are back!
The book is not written by Stieg Larsson, who unfortunately died. But it has its style, the suspense and a story that makes you want to read it and check what happens.
A man that is a brilliant computer engineer is murdered. The only witness is his son that suffers from autism but makes perfect drawings and solves complex math problems. Together with Lisbeth and Mikael they are going to catch the killer and understand the motivation being the murder.

Steve Jobs

The controversial Steve Jobs played by Michael Fassbender in a great movie directed by Danny  Boyle. Great script, great music, beautifully filmed.
It is set before three important presentations: 1984 - Macintosh; 1988 - neXt; 1998 - the Mac. Steve, Joanna, Lisa, Sculley, Woz and Andy Hertzfeld are present in all three events.
Great quotes:
Andy Hertzfeld: We're not a pit crew at Daytona. This can't be fixed in seconds. 
Steve Jobs: You didn't have seconds, you had three weeks. The universe was created in a third of that time. 
Andy Hertzfeld: Well, someday you'll have to tell us how you did it.

Steve Wozniak: What do you do? You're not an engineer. You're not a designer. You can't put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board! The graphical interface was stolen! So how come ten times in a day I read Steve Jobs is a genius? What do you do? 
Steve Jobs: Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.