July 17, 2002
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Staying in one´s own city during vacation is also good for the senses… I saw a documentary some days ago- Janela da Alma, Soul´s Window. It is one that mentions the look as a great link of communication. Its original idea is related to how the vision problems can interfere in people´s lives and personalities.
It is a sensitive and reflexive investigation of the soul through people´s vision and the lack of it. Nineteen people were interviewed, among known and unknown ones, with different degrees of visual deficiency. Each one spoke of how they see the world and themselves, opinions that reveal different landscapes as we watch it. The production was done in three years, time that the producers had led to consult historians, artists, physicists, philosophers, and professionals who work in the ophthalmology area.
This documentary has made me remember a book I read once. It is by Jose Saramago, a Portuguese writer. Blindness: a novel( guess not yet translated into English). In it, people from an ordinary city become blind all of a sudden. The story goes showing how those people seem to lose control of their principles. A very intriguing and yet tough-to-digest book, it drives the reader to re-evaluate most of nowadays moral values.
I also watched MIBII last weekend. NO news about that, as it seems to me that everyone decided to do so…
Anyway, the film is very good. It has showed me people still can make good commercial films, with great cast, nice visual effects without being pathetic. Besides, it is as good as the first one. I did have a good time! Really liked that doggie….
Besides watching movies, I have started walking around São Paulo again. I´m not sure if it´s either because I haven´t done that for long or the city has changed much, but it seems the great grey giant is more charming. It may just be the way I see things now. Through my eyes, I see things in a more colorful and charming way. As I close them, the colors and light remain for some seconds, what makes me look for more sights, and walk for miles without minding the time.
You see this above? It is my license to blog!
Hehehe… Hope it helps me whenever Xanga is down… Xanga has made me lose some blogs. Somehow did not feel like rewriting them. Guess I´ll wait till all gets back to normal.
Comments (16)
Great blog. You come through here so alive and sensual and sensuos, too!
License to blog! That’s too much.
Staying in one’s city is OK, I think. As long as one becomes a tourist in that predatorial arena.
License to blog! I need one!!
You’re completely right, Xanga has been AWFUL lately!!!!!!!!!! (Angry smile here…)
But back to your lovely blog, you’ve been licensed even without a license for a long time hon… just ask any of your subscribers eheheheh
I will keep tags on you hon, coz i want to make sure to give you news about my trip to Portugal and stuff like that… I am however leaving Xanga… at least until they figure out the security stuff (people are hacking on other people’s xanga sites).
Men in Black 2 – definetely a good movie.
Could have had a better happy ending though lol
Take Care,
Nessie.
I am looking at my own city with different eyes this summer. It’s a holiday!
Congratulations Shy . You can blog during 150 years ! What a nice future !
Amitié Michel
Wonderful plate!!! I cannot wait to see the movie too
hi there ,thts a lovely blog n am waiting to watch M11B.
LOl….i know….ive been re-re-re-commenting on ppl’s blog. tiring. *ooof!*
i know what you mean about xanga, i’ve lost some decents post in the past. I haven’t seen MIIB, i doubt i wil sit through it anytime soon, the weekend it came out i choose to see my big fat greek wedding instead.
*hugs*
I might take a sabbatical from Xanga for a while! Well, you can always catch me at our favorite meeting place! BTW thanks for the review – I’ll surely catch MIB next week if I have soome dough a Gas in my car
I so love your blogs… emotional, philosophical, and yet so much related to life
hmmm… MIB II… I havent even seen MIB I
Though I have seen the cartoon series twice 
The look is one of the most direct languages /communications between people.
I have some difficult now in reading/understanding it because the language of look is cultural and with all the world coming together is impossible to understand it.
I read too the book of Jose Saramago, it is surely translated in Inglish.
Sometimes I m blind too,so I understand very good the state of blindness of the world and I m very pessimist about it.
Ciao SHY/LOTUS
at times xanga can be a pain. some of my blog entries went kapoot. i don’t even think twice to write a new, fresh empty. i’ll be too pissed. anyways, i guess i need to catch mIIb too?
I guess everyone is a little blind… especially when it comes to find happiness, we just have a tendency to look for distant goals, which supposedly would bring us happiness… it isn’t always that far, and that difficult.. sometimes, havin’ faith in ourselves can solve the problem!!!
I love that. Where did you find it?
Love the bumper plate LOL!