thanks yama and sebastian! downloading too! i lately discovered some other great movies that show about life in other places around latinamerica... 1) "La Zona Sur" from Bolivia 2) "Qué tan lejos"from Ecuador
thanks, Kiko Mayorga i+d ata/escuelab.org On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm sure there are concrete ways to help uruguayan cinema but probably the > first is to watch it. > I'm downloading from: > http://thepiratebay.org/**torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_** > del_Papa_2007_ibarak<http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_del_Papa_2007_ibarak> > > Ahoy, > Sebastian > > El 02/07/11 19:20, Yamandu Ploskonka escribió: > > Just finished watching The Pope's Toilet, a Uruguayan movie telling of >> parental sacrifice, poverty, relation with authority, dreams of the young >> and of the old... >> >> Great movie, highly recommended if you want to have a better idea of how >> real Uruguayans live or survive, especially among the urban less well-to-do. >> Many elements I found highly accurate: the bar where the group of friends >> meet every afternoon, the neighborhood, small-time smuggling as a way of >> life for many - protectionism and import taxes make many "legal" imports >> unaffordable, thus Brazilian products have forever been a gray-area option, >> indeed considered by many as the very origin of the Uruguayan nationhood. >> >> I could almost smell that house, those streets... >> >> If you watch it, do notice the "need" of the daughter to go to study to >> Montevideo, how that is interpreted by his mother, father, peers and the >> "friendly" older lady, that one with a hint of ulterior motives, by the >> customs officer who is quite outright on what *he* wants... How much she >> believes in her mom's desire, that after she graduates she will come back. >> >> Wife asked if I had ever smuggled when in Uruguay. I have. >> (to admit something like that sounds strange - us Uruguayans feel it's >> entirely normal, even the wife of President Sanguinetti shared her >> adventures. Moreover, my experience was during an official school trip, >> where everybody came back at least with many layers of T-shirts - and >> chocolate! I can say it was quite the bonding experience) >> ______________________________**_________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/**listinfo/iaep<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/**listinfo/iaep<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep> >
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