Paula’s Films Blog

Fourth floor is a film based on a group of guys called “los pelaos”. The main character Miguel Angel, represented by Juan José Ballesta, is entered in this hospital along with other guys: Dani, Izan and Jorge, because they have cancer in their legs, which had made them lose one of their legs because it had to be amputated. Even having this disease, these four guys continue doing things that make them see every day a little more comfortable despite his illness, things that make them smile, such as basketball, trips by the hospital at night, see a pretty girl … each of the characters live this situation in a different way, for example Dani, who knows his first love, and Jorge, who lives with the pain of waiting the test results to determinate if he has cancer or not. Fourth floor hasn’t got a final, simple life goes on …

This is a film that tells the life of a peculiar guy: Benjamin Button. Since his birth, Benjamin has a special feature compared to other people: he born like a old boy. Just born, his father got rid of him, leaving him in a nursing home. As Benjamin grew rejuvenates his body, which produces a contradiction with his environment. Benjamin has the body of an elderly man with the inexperience of a child. During this learning time is marked by a number of adventures. Thanks to a Marine knows the sex and travel the world. Destined to the north of Russia has his first love adventure, and there became a war hero accidentally. Returning to his hometown, New Orleans, the environment which he grew up has changed, but found a love child who he thought he had lost forever. From this moment, the film tells the meeting of the couple until they finally live together. Both have reached the same age at the same time but when they have children Benjamin realizes that he can’t be a good father to them because he goes back physically and mentally. He decides to leave his family and, over the years, his partner forms another family. At the end of the movie when Benjamin is only a child his partner will take care of him until his dead, when he end because of senile dementia.

Pablo, a boy of 12 years old called the “ball” has a group of friends at school, and they usually play a game that is very dangerous, it consist on crossing the railway line a second before the train arrives. Moreover, his father is a man who is always grumpy arguing his son and the mother of this can’t do anything about it. One day a new child called Alfredo, arrives in Pablo’s class. They become two very good friends, they come out for a walk together, they keep talking after school until late, they go together to an amusement park, etc… When Pablo meets Alfredo’s parents, Pablo likes them, and one day they invite Pablo to go on tour with them. When Pablo’s father discovers what have done Alfredo’s family, Pablo’s father forbids him to see them. As he refused, his father gives him a beating. This day is when Alfredo’s fathers begin to suspect that Pablo suffers abuse from his father. When Alfredo’s fathers try to help Pablo, his father gives him a beating that nearly kills him, so Alfredo’s parents decide to take the child to the hospital, and then they take Pablo to social services.

On one hand I like this film, because i shows the problems that some families have, for example on Pablo’s family, he is abused by his father, and I think that is important to show the people that some children need help and make them realize about it. But, on the other hand, I don’t like this film because it has got violence, and I don’t like it, and because I would like that this violence wouldn’t exists in the world, but, unfortunately, it exists. But the film is really well done, and Juan José Ballesta is a really good actor.

Peg, a lady of about 50 years old, is visiting different houses to sell beauty face products, when by a coincidence she arrives at a castle on the outskirts, where she’ll find Edward, a guy a bit strange that is a guy who has scissors instead of hands. He proves to be a guy with a good heart and harmless, so Peg decides to take him home so he can meet people and see the world. On reaching home, Edward meets Kim, Peg’s daughter, who will love since the first time. All the neighbors will be delighted to have Edward near their home because he cuts their hair; he trims their gardens, etc. But a small incident will destroy all the appreciation they feel for him, but it won’t ends with the appreciation that Kim feels for Edward…

I have put this film because I think it is different. It shows the little love that appears between Edward, a different guy, a “monster”, and a normal girl, Kim. It also shows the injustice with which the people treat Edward only because he is different. But especially because I love Johnny Depp and I love all his films.

Chris is married and he has got one son. Before getting married, Chris invested all his money in high definition scanners a little more expensive than standard scanners, and he bought many of them, about 20, but what he didn’t know is that hospitals see these scanners as “a unnecessary luxury “so these scanners are very difficult to sell. When Chris and his family are in ruins, his wife abandons him, leaving in his charge their son, the scanners and the rent. One day, while Chris is visiting a hospital, stops in front of a “borsa” office, and someone tells him that it is a very well paid job, so Chris goes into one of the offices looking for a work. The secretary say to him that for this work he will have to convince the chiefs that he is one of 20 guys who can enter in the program for 6 months of learning this job. When he has come into the program, he still living in appalling conditions, he can’t pay the rent so he and his son have to go to sleep in some rooms that are giving by the hospital. To be number one among 20 guys, he makes many things and invests much effort to get it, until in the end achieves his objective: happiness.

I like this film because it shows the importance of be happy, and it shows that no everybody finds the happiness easily, a lot of people have to work a lot for become happy. The film also shows the relation of a father and his son, and although they are unhappy, they are minimally happy because they have each other, sometimes without our family, people would become a little mad… And I like it also because Will Smith it’s a really good actor and I think that he interprets his role very well.

This is a movie based on a book that explains the history of nacis from the viewpoint of a child of 12 years called Bruno. Bruno is the son of an official naci, so he and his family will move in a house next to the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Bruno doesn’t want to leave his city because he believes that he will lose their three “best friends for life”. Bruno is very bored in his new home because he doesn’t go to school and he hasn’t got neighborhood, so he hasn’t got friends, so one day he will visit the area around his house, and through a gate Bruno meet Smuel, a boy with the same age as Bruno but a little different physically, Smuel is thinner, paler and with his hair shaved at 0. Bruno realizes that Smuel and all the other people behind the gate dressed in a striped pyjamas, and he doesn’t understand why. One day Smuel asks Bruno to help him to look for his father because a few days ago he had gone nowhere and he never returned. Bruno agrees to help, so Smuel brings to Bruno a striped pyjamas and Bruno dresses and traspas the gate. They enter in the middle of a bunch of people and it begins to rain. They are been bringing somewhere but they don’t know where and when they come indoors, Bruno think that is because of the rain, but suddenly their lives ends. After a few months of searching for Bruno, his father understand what really happened.

I really like this film, because it shows the story of the nacis from the viewpoint of a boy that he doesn’t know anything about it, so he doesn’t know why everything happens. I think that’s a film that everyboy must see for knowing more about the nacis and for seeing it more closely.