Archive for July 4th, 2010

We have good news. Although our Earth is a speck floating in an endless dark universe, and we, human beings, are minuscule specks walking on the major one we call our planet, we are valuable. That’s right. As far as we know, we still are the center of the universe.

What makes us special is our complexity. Complexity belongs to the essential terminology of who wants to be up to date with the latest about the meaning of life. Complex things, like stars, planets, or living organisms, consist of diverse components bound into larger structures. These structures are patterned in very precise ways.
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House of Sand is a spectacular movie entirely shot in Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil, between the sky and the sand, and a bunch of actors. Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres, mother and daughter in real life and in the movie, acted astoundingly in this story that captures one of the most crucial aspects of life: circumstances.

In an endless sea of sand, he two Fernandas, and soon after the granddaughter for Fernanda Torres is pregnant, are stuck. There is no television (it hadn’t been invented yet) no telephone, no books, no music, radio or instrument. Nothing, only the white sand on the three directions, and the blue sea oh the fourth. The daughter, Fernanda Torres, tries to escape in whatever way she has available until surrendering to the inevitable. Her daughter will be able, after three decades, to get rid of the sand and to return to “civilization”. Read the rest of this entry »