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songs Film: California Dreamin' (Chungking Express)

I've never been very keen to listen to movie soundtracks, even those that I have drawn special attention. I like to think of records as anything more than a compilation of songs I think are set to work in groups or artists who have made every one of their songs have sought to give cohesion and unity, an entity beyond the mere sum of different combinations of harmonic sounds and text, and in many cases assume the chronicle of an era.

However, a time now has been happening to me a fact that could be explained as a mechanism of classical conditioning single test, or simply with a "go you to know." It turns out that watching a movie I like a track repair (existing and independently prior to the film) that appears in any particular scene or over footage in general, and despite being well known was never called my attention. Since then, I like to listen to that piece before I said anything and that reminds me of the movie that, normally, I have left more than satisfied.

I'm not a connoisseur in music (not in film, I must say), but inaugurated here a comment section in which different samples of what I have explained, as I have, in the previous paragraph.

This first installment will devote to the case where this phenomenon has occurred to me: California Dreamin '(The Mamas & the Papas, 1956) , published in Chungking Express . This is a curious film, directed by Wong Kar-Wai in 1994, which once attracted wide attention of Quentin Tarantino himself. Tells two stories of love and heartbreak set in Hong Kong, independent of each other except for a common meeting point, and completely different in style and narrative. The first is the crush by a secret police agent of a woman involved in the gruesome business of drug trafficking. In the second, more leisurely pace, the lover is a girl who works at a fast food stall, and he is a regular police, in uniform and routine patrols. Importantly, all the characters presented a host of eccentricities only assume from the stereotype you have in the Western world that "the Chinese are weirdos."

It is the second part of the film when it appears, endlessly repeated, the song California Dreamin ', favorite character played by Faye Wong's hypnotic . I do not know if this interpretation or the psychedelic touches and the chorus of the song, that scenes like those shown in the video left me with the theme embedded in my consciousness for many days.

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Sunday

a day like today, a Sunday in summer 1990, took place the famous slaughter of Puerto Hurraco. For those who do not remember it (like me, who was 2 years old), a long series of feuds between two families over the Izquierdo siblings shaping the deep cazurrez of Spain at its best shot and getting involved with all quisqui. In 2004 the movie was released on 7 th day , directed by Carlos Saura and scripted by Ray Loriga , based on the fateful event.

Typically think that from a base that's hard not to leave a good movie. And actually this is not a bad play, but his script is not making the huge potential of the story. The main problem therefore lies in the script. Of all possible approaches, the author would prefer the easier and less risky, less intersante accordingly. The film takes place from the point of view of one of the teenage daughters of the family, say, a victim. This is a cowardly approach, because the story is much less complicated than starting from the perspective of the victims. Where the real interest of the viewer is in the characters offending family members, deranged and insane, here are portrayed as mere fools, motivated very simple and without delving into their relationships. But focusing on them was too risky, Loriga must have thought, since it is difficult to get into the mind of a murderer and trying to show their motives, especially when the murderer is a whole family. To have raised it from this point of view, the film could go wrong, of course, but also could have gone very well, certainly much better than the final result.

to all this we add that, personally, it reminded me at first to Los Santos Inocentes masterpiece of English cinema and I daresay the world, the final print can not get much better. Comparisons are odious, yes, but also unavoidable, and the rural environment in which the film takes place automatically took me back to the famous film Mario Camus. Accentuating another script failures: poor construction of the secondary characters, some stuffed with shoe to adorn the main story.

However, in conclusion, On 7 th day is a film worth seeing. If one reduces the initial expectations can enjoy a history of revenge and love, while enjoying the beautiful picture, without feeling particularly disappointed or bored.