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Piece of new Summary

I choose a column of a man called Tim. Tim have a children, called Louise. She asked to him about the point. “The point of what?” he ask back. “You know. Living. Everything”.

In the column, Tim shows the different answers and messages that the people used to use with their children, and he makes reflections about it. Messages like ‘the point of the life is to be happy’ or ‘the point of the life is to be a good person’. The problem to the writer is that if you tell that toy a child, he or she gonnas to pursue that goals, and in the personal experience of Tim, that type of things are thing that you more pursue, their more seemed to elude you. There is no problem if you feel good or happy, but that things transpired. You don’t have to pursue them. People who tried desperately to be good gets depressed.

 “To serve god” is not a good answer too. There are so many gods and a lot of ways to serve them. The problem is that the child will internalize moral courage only because it’s feeling like an obligation. The people shouldn’t act with moral courage because they ought to.

 “Follow your dreams” is another possible answer, the answer of the Disney movies. In the writer point of view, we have capacities and weakness, and we can’t do everything. We have limitations and is good to know them.

“Muddle through, roll with the punches and hope for the best.” Is the common sceptical answer, it’s not inspiring but at least is honest, because he combines the luck and the chaos of the life.

At the end, Tim admits to not have an answer but if He has to response honestly, he would say: “The point of living, Louise, is to try to get back as an adult what you are shortly going to lose as a child.” To Tim, the children know that the life has no purpose; they only live in the moment. The adults forget how to do that.

I choose this piece of new because I think that the children have questions to everything, and the answer of the people can have a lot of effect in their mind through all their lives. I think that the children have the advantage of have no certainty, so they can question all. 

A Film

The last movie that I saw is Memento. It was a film directed by Christopher Nolan. The principal actors of the film are  Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. I saw it because a friend recomends me the movie a pair of years ago, but for some reason I did not want to see it before.

The film ends with the the photography of a dead man in the floor. But actually, this scene is the beggining of the movie, because the movie start with the scene that chronologically is the end. Through the movie, we go more and more to the past. That’s funny because when we see a new scene, we have more information and then we reinterpret the previous scenes.

The movie was about Leonard, a man who can’t make memories. He remeber everything of his past til a specific moment of his life. Since that moment forward. That’s is a problem because often he is talking with someone, but he can’t remember who is that person or how the conversation started. He only have notes that remember him where he lives, which is her car, etc. I think that the backwards style of the movie combine really great, because we don’t know neither the past. And we have to take a lot of atention, because the film can be really confused.

I think that one message of the movie is the fact we are actually like the protagonist. Our memories are really usefull, but, like the notes in the film, we didn’t know why we remeber that things, or in what situation we make that or another conclusion about something or someone.

Know I want to see another movie, called Happy ending. That have the same narrative style that this movie.