Monday, June 13, 2011

A beautiful true story!


There are many films that I like, but I am going to talk about one of these. 
The film is “Siempre a tu lado” in Spanish, but the original title is “Hachiko: A dog`s story”. I saw this film about two years ago with my family. It`s an American drama film, about a true story from Japan.
The film is about a man, who is interpreted by the actor Richard Gere, he is a teacher and his name is Wilson Parker, he has to take the train everyday to go to his job. One day he finds a dog in the train station and he is captivated by the dog and he decides to take the puppy to his home overnight.
The next day Parker thinks that someone is going to be looking for the dog, but nobody does this. A friend of Parker  helps to translate the symbols on the dog’ s collar and they discover that the mane of the dog is Hachiko, he is an Akita, a Japanese dog. Parker decides to take care of the dog and he calls him Hachi. At the beginning his wife doesn`t want to take the dog home but when she sees how her husband plays with him, she decides to accept the puppy, and they adopt him.
Parker and Hachi are very good friends, Hachi goes with his boss every morning to leave him at the train station and in the afternoon Hachi waits patiently  for Parker to go home with him.  One day Parker is working and he suddenly suffers a heart attack and dies. While, Hachi is waiting that the train arrives, but there isn`t sign of Parker. The next day, Hachi returns to the station and waits for a long time… 
Parker´s wife sells the house and Hachi is sent to live with her daughter, but Hachi escapes and goes back to his old house and then to the train station. Years after the wife visits Parker's grave and she sees Hachi waiting at the station. After that the old Hachi has visions of Parker and he dies. The two spirits meet in heaven.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Books, more than words!

Clearly I remember the book that I read for first time, it was “Papelucho Historiador”, I was in the school and the history´s teacher gave us the book, it have been the book most boring that I have read, then when in language we had to read something it was difficult because in this time I didn´t like to read.

Went many years where I read only the books that my teachers send me, I only read for obligation. But when I was fourteen I was in other school and obviously with others teachers and the language´s teacher sent us many book for read, and in this years I knew some authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Fran Kafka, and their books were more interesting for me and I decided to read more books.

When Harry Potter was fashionable, I remember I wanted to read the first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", it was very entertaining and then I bought the next book, until the fourth. Also I went to the cinema when the film was premiered. These books were the first books that I read because I wanted and not for school obligation.

One of my favorites books is “The perfume” by the germany Paul Suskind, the book is about of a murderer, his mane is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, he was born with a special olfactory sense, and he wants to create the perfume finest of the world, the best scent, which Grenouille finds in a young woman named Laure whom his acute sense of smell finds in a garden.

Also my favorite author is Isabel Allende, I love her books, they are very entertaining, when I start to read some of her books I don’t stop until finish it. The last book that I read was “La isla bajo el mar”, it´s a very good story!