sexta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2013

ESCAPE PLAN (film) and… Living in beehive!




What do you expect when Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are together in a movie? Gunshots, cars crashes, fights and lots of adrenaline running through your veins, right? Totally true!!! However, this film shows more than just action, action and action.

Escape Plan tells a story of Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), a structural-security authority that is sent to a prison where nobody has escaped. He needs to put all his knowledge in practice to survive and get out alive. Many awkward situations take place to force Ray improve his methods. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays one of the prisoners that starts a friendship with Stallone’s character. Jim Caviezel plays Hobbes, the head of the prison. The prison is THE big character of the film, it is secret and its location is unknown. If you were a prisoner there, you would know how a bee’s life is.




Although I like Schwarzenegger’s movies, I am not fan of Stallone’s. Even though, I was convinced that it would be a great idea to see them acting the action.

‘Let’s go to Action Time’  - That was what I thought.

What a huge surprise I had when I realized that Escape Plan blew my mind!
The climax is perfectly created; the crew is the best choices for the plot (it couldn’t be anybody else).

Stallone did really good job and Schwarzenegger was funny, hilarious sometimes. But I would like to expose my unexpected feeling when I saw Jim Cavievel’s performance. Just a simple word to say: P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N! He is amazing, magnificent. It is absolutely fantastic how he becomes one of the main characters so easy and in a quiet way. 

The final words of this review are: Be afraid of action movies, you can shift into a fan of them. Truly! LOL

See you soon…

Inessa Silva

sábado, 9 de novembro de 2013

CHARLOTTE STREET (book) and… a contemporary story!



Dear Readers,

I chose to change the way I usually begin my reviews because November is a month that people are making lists for Christmas. Why not to write it as a letter to Father Christmas/Santa Claus?

My intention is not to persuade you to read or not to read the books and films I have read and watched, it just to put some ideas on words and help you to pick stories that you may like.

Few days before reading Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace, I read reviews and asked others readers what they thought about the book. For my surprise, I had two different points of view: first group considered not a good story because the main plot was too confused; the second one thought amazing how the author describe London as scenery and guided the whole story. It is a Love and Hate dichotomy for sure. My decision was to read and decide what 50/50 I am part of.

Before you start reading this book, you must have three characters in mind: the disposable camera, the girl and Charlotte Street. Yes, I consider disposable camera and Charlotte Street characters, truly.  The book tells a story of Jason Priestley (not the actor), an ex-teacher who starts writing for a newspaper. One day, he helps a girl who was taking a cab, but he keeps with her disposable camera, accidently. Jason wants to find her not just for giving the disposable camera back, but because he thinks she is the one!



In my opinion, Danny Wallace was brilliant when he chose a random encounter to show how Jason is living his life, his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, his friendship with Dev and lots of ordinary happenings in a human being’s life.

I confess that in the beginning it was really confused text, however I didn’t stop reading I wanted to find a reason of all messy thing. I believe I did: the main character is confused, too many conflicts, so maybe it was on purpose. It seems the characters are real.

One thing I am sure you will do while you were reading Charlotte Street: you and Jason will suffer, cry and laugh together – I promise you.

At the end of the book, I realized I am part of the group that loves Charlotte Street!
            
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See you soon…

Inessa Silva