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Agos182008

Caza

Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) trabaja en la prestigiosa compañía de publicidad Sterling Cooper. Cuando está a punto de saborear las mieles del matrimonio conocerá en su propio trabajo a la secretaria Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss). Su relación es en teoría estrictamente profesional pero en algunas ocasiones ambos acaban extralimitándose. Es precisamente después de uno de esos momentos en los que los vínculos laborales se han sobrepasado cuando Peter confesará a Peggy su afición por la caza.

Pete Campbell: You ever been hunting, Peggy?
Peggy Olsen: No, I don't think so.
Pete Campbell: You either have or you haven't. I went a couple of times. With my uncle. New Hampshire.
Peggy Olsen: I saw my cousin shoot a rabbit by Coney Island.
Pete Campbell: It's an incredible sensation. You have to be very quiet. Take it down with the first shot or you scare it away. Then sometimes you have to go up and finish it off. Then you tie it to the bumper and go home. But do you know what I've always wanted to do? I would pick it up, throw its back legs over my shoulder, and I would drag it through the snow to this little cabin. And there, I'd hang it up between a couple of trees, cut it open, and drain it, dress it. Then I'd take my big hunting knife and I'd cut this loin right out the side. And I'd go into the cabin and there'd be this woman waiting for me. Standing by one of those old stoves with a big black pipe. And I'd hand it to her and she'd put it in a cast iron skillet and then I'd sit at the table. And she'd bring it to me. And I'd wipe my knife on my knee. And then I would eat it. While she watches.
Peggy Olsen:That would be wonderful.

Bridget Bedard (2007). Red in the face (Mad Men 1x07)

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Agos052008

Parejas

Martha y George son una pareja de coalcohólicos. En sus momentos más beodos pueden llegar a ser extremadamente crueles el uno con el otro. Cuando las cogorzas son más leves pueden llegar a zaherirse pero con un ensañamiento muchísimo menor. Uno de los entretenimientos favoritos de este par de enamorados es invitar a sus amigos a pasar una estupenda velada a su humilde morada y practicar con ellos sus enfermizos y destructivos juegos de manipulación.  Nick y Honey serán sus siguientes víctimas pero por alguna extraña razón son como corderos que acuden al matadero con una sonrisa en sus labios.


Martha
: You make me puke!
George: That wasn't a very nice thing to say, Martha.
Martha: That wasn't what?!
George: A very nice thing to say.
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.  

Edward Albee (1962). Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Jul302008

Violación

Mikey Livingston (Jonathan Osser) es el benjamín de una pequeña, pero feliz, familia estadounidense. Los standards morales de este pequeño grupúsculo humano son realmente encomiables y su concienciación con temas sociales como la inmigración y la integración racial son dignos de admiración. Quizás por ello la familia tiene como asistenta a Consuelo (Lupe Ontiveros), una latina con un hijo en el corredor de la muerte en vez de la típica señora de la limpieza wasp. Consuelo percibe esa patente preocupación por su bienestar, ya que el trato con los Livingston es más que cordial y las preguntas de Mikey acerca de su armónica vida familiar no pueden ser más delicadas. Por ello, Consuelo está cavilando un plan para actuar con reciprocidad hacia estos seres humanos llenos de cualidades.  

 

Mikey Livingston: Why was he on death row?
Consuelo: For rape and murder.
Mikey Livingston: Consuelo, what is rape exactly?
Consuelo: It is when you love someone and they don't love you and you do something about it.

Todd Solondz (2001). Storytelling


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Jul292008

Sonrisas

David Foster Wallace decide embarcarse en el lujoso crucero Zenit (llamado por él mismo sarcásticamente Nadir) para contar al resto de la humanidad lo que puede suponer una experiencia de este calibre para una mente crítica como la suya. Si bien este paquete vacacional supone un enorme regocijo para el común de los mortales, para el pobre escritor los lujos y opulencias en alta mar significan un castigo de proporciones bíblicas. Así, gracias a la cínica mirada de Wallace acabamos descubriendo que bajo las muecas de forzada felicidad que se pueden observar en la cubierta siempre se aloja una tristeza infinita.

 

“This is related to the phenomenon of the Professional Smile, a national pandemic in the service industry; and no place in my experience have I been on the receiving end of as many Professional Smiles as I am on the Nadir: maitre d's, Chief Stewards, Hotel Managers' minions, Cruise Director -- their PS's all come on like switches at my approach. But also back at land at banks, restaurants, airline ticket counters, on and on. You know this smile: the strenuous contraction of circumpolar fascia with incomplete zeugmatic involvement, the smile that doesn't quite reach the smiler's eyes and that signifies nothing more than a calculated attempt to advance the smiler's own interests by pretending to like the smilee. Why do employers and supervisors force professional service people to broadcast the Professional Smile? Am I the only consumer in whom high doses of such a smile produce despair?”

 

David Foster Wallace (1997). A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again


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Jul282008

Horror

Al capitán Willard (Martin Sheen) se le ha encomendado la peliaguda misión de eliminar al insurgente Coronel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Con el objetivo de acabar con el reinado del terror que impera en los dominios de este miembro del ejército estadounidense Willard viaja a Vietnam. Una vez allí vivirá en primera persona en la extraña y primordial sociedad creada ad hoc por el coronel Kurtz y descubrirá por sí mismo el verdadero significado del horror.
 

“I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.” 

John Milius y Francis Ford Coppola (1979). Apocalipsis Now

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