Mamachas of the Ring
Year: 2009
Country: USA / Bolivia
Genre: Documentary
Director: Betty M. Park

Mark: 1 to 5 [2]

Plot: The story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, a cholita and wrestler who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling. In 2004, Carmen Rosa was at the forefront of a cholita wrestler revolution. Never before had Bolivia seen an indigenous woman into the ring. Along with three other cholitas, Carmen became an international star, and all four were foram the Mamachas of the Ring. The film begins in 2006, shortly after their return from a star-making turn on Peruvian TV—but their rapid success has come at a price. Jealousy and envy begin to ripple throughout the wrestling community, and eventually they are black-listed from performing in Bolivia’s main wrestling league. Betrayed but not discouraged, the Mamachas take matters into their own hands. They pound the pavement organizing their own shows, contracting media appearances, and traveling for days to perform across Bolivia, often to paltry crowds who can barely afford to pay the entrance fee. The pressures of daily living and gendered responsibilities begin to eat away at the foundation of the Mamachas, and Carmen Rosa increasingly shoulders more of the work burden. Her day job as a street vendor begins to suffer, and her attention to her family dwindles, until one day her husband issues her a firm ultimatum: wrestling or your family.

Personal View: If you saw the trailer and the picture will normaly imagine ‘wow that s a nice movie’, but it isn’t. Nice to laugh a little but it’s a movie that starts great and makes you sleep after a little and just lose the end with no regret. Could be a much better.

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"Take my voice with you."

The Stoning Of Soraya M
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Genre: Crime/Drama
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh

Mark: 1 to 5 [5]

Plot: Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day before. As the journalist turns on his tape recorder, Zahra takes us back to the beginning of her story, which involves Soraya’s husband, the local phony mullah, and a town all too easily led down a path of deceit, coercion and hysteria. The women, stripped of all rights and without recourse, nobly confront the overwhelming desires of corrupt men who use and abuse their authority to condemn Soraya, an innocent but inconvenient wife, to an unjust and torturous death. A drama that exposes the dark power of mob rule, uncivil law, and the utter lack of human rights for women. The last and only hope for some measure of justice lies in the hands of the journalist who must escape with the story — and his life — so the world will know. Based on the book of the same title by French-Iranian author Freidoune Sahebjam.

Personal View: Shocking movie, based in a true history to just feel even more cruel. Shows the cruelty without ‘why’ at Iran, until what point a human being can be unfair to another person to kill that person, tru stoning. Strong scenes that ill anyone. One of the bests movies of this film festival. Highly recommended.

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Get here the movie. [Movie with english subtitle only].

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Dear Lemon Lima
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy / Fiction
Director: Suzi Yoonessi

Mark: 1 to 5 [4]

Plot: Vanessa Lemor, 13, a lonely Yup’ik girl, is dumped by her true love – intellectual Philip Georgey,14 – and spends the summer obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy. She counts down the days to fall semester at Nichols School, a close-minded preparatory school in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the Georgey Family lives. Awarded the only minority scholarship, Vanessa’s new life is a nightmare. Back from a summer abroad and fluent in French, Philip is elevated to popular status, while Vanessa is relegated to life with the rest of the “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition”, FUBA. To make matters worse, she is elected captain for the school’s infamous Snowstorm Survivor competition, an event which simply perverts the traditional Native games of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics. But Vanessa believes that victory in the Snowstorm Survivor championship is the only way back into Philip’s heart. She quickly forms a quirky team of social misfits.

Personal View: Cute movie talking about relationships all the time, sometimes remembered Amelie Poulain at the screenshots and the fantasy. Emotional and laughing one. Typical  teenager’s things but also a kind of different view. I liked and I recommend.

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Swine Flu in Mexico

The recent new i got when i back home was that they are asking people to not travel to US and Mexico.
People “should avoid traveling to Mexico or the U.S. unless it is very urgent for them,” Andorra Vassiliou said.

The swine flu is back and killing again. Until now we already got 26 cases in Mexico [and they think that this virus can be responsible for at least 03 deaths there], 6 in Canada and 2 in Spain, and they are looking for more cases in Israel and New Zealand.

All started on Monday when a young student back from Mexico to Spain had the virus confirmed.
President Barack Obama said Monday that the outbreak was a “cause for concern” but not a “cause for alarm.”

The swine flu is contagious by air and as the name said, usually affects pigs. So if is a pig disease the humans have no natural immunity against this virus, and to makes things harder during the ill the disease is in a constantly mutation. Nice isn’t?

The symptoms are similar to common flu. They include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The virus spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes around another person. People can become infected by touching something with the flu virus on it and then touching their mouth, nose or eyes.

So take care people. And just for a while don’t travel there. You ll be safer at your home away from there.

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Nothing is just too bad that can’t worse.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway. Pretty clear examples of the well known Murphy’s Law, that now that completes 60 years in 2009.

It has born in 1949 in USA, in the air force to be exactly, in the middle of one of the experiences there were the Cap. Edward Murphy Jr. , that was coordinatin’ one of the experiences, realized that the technician had committed terrible mistakes, so much work to just nothin’, there was the part where Murphy split the principal phrase out, that after become the universal law of pessimism: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
This law already got Nobel Award, at the category ‘unusual discover’.

Happy anniversary.

Murphy's Law

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The U.S. have a economy basic on capitalism, and as we know, as the school teach us, socialism just doesn’t have space to this.

Instead of we say ‘god help us all’ we can say ‘Obama save us all’, or Stalin?

Raise the bills of the riches ones in 5%, show a economic count to the year of 2010 around US $3,6 tri to get the medical assistance better [including those ones that have no medical support], get the school to the kids better, help the environment to the poor ones.

The real world isn’t a candy shop.

GO Obama!

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And the force be with you!

If you turn the TV on, radios, go to the internet, just one thing you will hear or see, Barack Obama’ s possession.
The world just talk about this now, if was the end of the world, won’t have so many people talkin’ about it. This is a political phenomenon.

The first black president of this mostly racist country,44th elect one from Honolulu. Now he can teach us “how to be happy at 47 years old in ten lessons – for dummies”.

The new president of the world U.S.A in few days will have to take care of a country that he can choice from now on if gonna be in the past or try to keep the present to be at the future.

Is the world imaging that this time can be the end of the U.S. era?
An empire that controlled everything and now is broke? Who could possible imagine that?
Everyone say that is difficult to know if Obama is gonna be better or worse than Bush, and just after they say: ” It’s hard to be worse than Bush”, pretty well joke but who have this guaranty?

Sometimes I wonderin’… Just me see that Barack Hussein Obama has a rude way to talk, yep we already known that he has the power. But it’s not the way to show that he’s strong and will fix everything like Super Obama.
After long and almost interminable 8 years of Bush’s Reich, it’s time to say goodbye singing a Winehouse music ” I told ya, i was trouble/You know I’m no good”

Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good

Let’s see in a good point of view of Bush… he ll back to Texas where the best Bigmc is made, isn’t so bad.

And let’s pray wishing a better government world ’cause worse than that even Klaatu can help us.

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