Surrogates

A movie about people that have surrogates living by them. These surrogates may be younger, more beautiful or completely different from the originals. But one day a surrogate dies with a powerful and mysterious weapon and this ends up killing the human that was operating it.
Bruce Willis is investigating the case, his surrogate is damaged and he has to do everything on his own.
This movie questions the replacement of human life by technology.

8 mile

The story of Eminem with Eminem. How he suffered in a musical genre that was associated with black people. How he persevered and got famous.

Brother Bear

An animation about a boy that is responsible for the killing of his brother and a bear that is transformed to a bear to experience a different perspective.

Silence

This is indeed a great movie! Beautifully filmed, it is the story of Jesuits in Japan in 1640. Two Jesuits come to Japan to look for the whereabouts of Padre Ferreira. It is said he apostatized and that he is now living as a regular japonese. The priests see the brutality of the japonese inquisitor that wants to eradicate christians and christianity in Japan. They follow separate paths but they are both caught and we follow Padre Sebastião Rodrigues for the rest of the film. We see him questioning his faith and watching as other christians die because they refuse to step a holy image and they refuse to renounce their faith. Should we question our religion? Should we renounce it to escape certain death? Can we remain christian in our core but act otherwise?
The movie poses very interesting questions and it shows us how Japan was at that time.

Hacksaw Ridge

This is a war movie about a conscience objector that goes to the 2nd World War as a paramedic with no guns or weapons. Based on a true story, Desmond Doss saves 75 people and he does not use a weapon to shoot his enemies. There are some brutal scenes, but it depicts the brutality of wars.

Os dias realistas

The Realistic Joneses, translated as Os dias realistas, is a play written by Will Eno that was translated to Portuguese by Jacinto Lucas Pires.
It is about a couple, Bambi and João Dias, that become neighbours of a couple with the same surname: Margarida and Tó Dias.
Our first impression is that they have not much in common and that they are very different, but then we realise they share the same concerns and even the same illness.
I found this play a little upsetting because it addresses many issues we experience in our everyday lives when we interact with other people.

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso - PORTO LISBOA / 2016-1916

An exhibit about an important Portuguese painter: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887-1918).
He lived between Paris and Manhufe, near Porto, and he had futurist, surrealist and cubist influences in his work.
In 1916 he organized two exhibits, one in Lisbon and the other in Porto, to show his works. 100 years after these exhibits the Portuguese Art Museum decided to comemorate. About 80 works are showed.

Rogue one

The new Star Wars movie. It takes place before episode 4.
I really enjoyed it, but I'm a fan :)

New year resolution: one book per month

This year I'm commited to read at least one book per month.
I started with the Origin of Species from Charles Darwin.

This was a revolutionary book that altered the way human beings are perceived in the world and the concept of evolution.

A mãe é que sabe

A portuguese movie about a woman gathering her family to celebrate the birthday of her father. Her mother died some years ago and she wonders how life would be if she could warn her. Other changes in her life are put the test.

Allied

The movie sets in the 2nd World War. It is the story of two spies, played by Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard that get married and move to London, where Brad Pitt lives.

Suspicions begin when English intelligence suspect Marion Cotillard works for the other side.

A thriller from Robert Zemeckis.