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January 4th. Voces inocentes (2004), dir. Luis Mandoki

I was around seven years old when I first watched this film. I remember I couldn't understand a lot but it had me crying my eyes out because I realised how terrible people were. It was an intense film for me when I was seven, and it is now that I'm eighteen. Maybe it's because of the things that are going through Mexico right now (this film is based in El Salvador, though) that had me thinking for awhile after it finished, and literally broke my heart and had me crying for a bit.

The film is good. The adaptation is good. The environment is good. The actings are good. Something I would change, somehow, are the dialogues and make them more central american, since it has a lot of mexican slang (though it was good for me, still: it's based in El Salvador, not Mexico) and it can be misunderstood.

I think I'm going to check out more movies like this, and if any of you has a recommendation, please feel free to send it to me.

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January 5th. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010), dir. David Lynch

I couldn't watch a film today since I got busy studying (and I woke up late), but still I didn't want to miss a day and I watched this shortfilm/commercial.

With that being said, I need to add that this didn’t feel like a commercial at all. Lynch really knows how to play with mysticism and he showed us well in this one, and yet, I need to say I really love to see sweet things made by Lynch.

This had a romantic and soft side, including a blue rose, which we could also see in Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), as a sign of hope. A concept that means different things on both films, but that is still there and is a main player on the whole story.

Is David Lynch a hard director to watch? I wouldn’t say so. I’d say he really enjoys playing with all the details, and that he has a superior eye than most of us. I also need to add that I love the way he leaves the door open for us to make our own conclusions, as a part of his surreal-symbolism work.

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