What have I seen on Netflix? Travellers. Three seasons

OPINION

A few days ago I finished watching the serie Travellers that Netflix is broadcasting in its third season. To say that the tape started well with some first chapters that were putting you in the main plot, but when the second season began, the chapters began to lose steam, as if the scriptwriters did not know how to continue, including nondescript chapters, without any mission and focusing on the sub-plots starring the five members of the travel team and conflict resolution in the least plausible way.

Yes, at the beginning of the third season, the series ended up boring me, because it continued with the same tone as the second, without having a clear objective of how it was going to continue.

So I don't know if a second season will be filmed. In my opinion, this cow doesn't give any more milk, but I'm not a shareholder of Netflix or the production company.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET

Production: Netflix and Showcase .

Script: Brad Wright.

Date: 2016.

Cast: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore.

Duration chapter: 45 min.

SYNOPSIS

Five people, time travelers, who take the bodies of humans who were going to die, try to change some aspects of humanity to change the future from which they come, but they will encounter a multitude of obstacles that will make things very difficult for you to achieve your goals.

Un paseo por la playa con el caballo

Borders and flags

I came to your border

walking the paths of longing, 

running from bullets and bombs,

of hunger and meaninglessness,

looking for the hand of solidarity.

I looked up to contemplate 

the height of your walls of iron, steel and cement,

I brought my knee to the ground.

and picked up the pieces of hope.

Then, I hoisted the flag I have engraved on my chest,

that no one knows and no one respects,

I lifted it as high as I could,

and I moved it back and forth, 

to spill their colors near the horizon.

You didn't listen to me, you didn't see me, you just told me

the way back, 

that of discouragement and hopelessness, 

gagged and covered with barbed wire.

Sitting in front of you,

I understand your flag is a bloody bullet,

that your border is the seed of shame,

that your path is neither back nor forth,

only the path of selfishness.

Here I will be, in front of you,

dreaming of being hope,

with being a ray of sun and moon

to cross the walls of your frontiers

and make your flags invisible

La espera, desespera.

Historias de ayer. La bala

Fuente

Hubo una época en que estuvo muy de moda usar las balas para confeccionar colgantes. No recuerdo cómo, pero una bala cayó en mis manos y pensé que podía hacer un colgante con ella. La bala era pequeña, no recuerdo el calibre porque tampoco me interesaba. Estuve algún tiempo buscando la forma de hacer el colgante; en aquella época no había tutoriales de Youtube.

Intenté quitar el casquillo con unas tenazas, pero no pude, así que pensé que poniéndola al fuego, sería más fácil hacerlo. Con que me puse a la tarea de hacer una hoguera en el descampado que había detrás de mi calle. Yo pensé que la bala no tenía pólvora, así que cogí una verguilla y amarré la bala. Cuando el fuego estaba en su mayor apogeo, coloqué la bala en él y esperé.

Al poco, sentí una explosión que me dejó paralizado y los restos de la hoguera salieron volando por todos lados y yo con el mayor susto de mi corta vida.

Sí, la bala estaba cargada de pólvora. Gracias a que la había colocado con la punta hacia abajo, porque si la hubiera puesto hacia arriba, no sé qué hubiera pasado.

Después del susto inicial y de quitar las brasas que quedaban, encontré el casquillo atado a la verguilla, pero no había rastro de la bala. No desistí y seguí buscando hasta que la encontré. Volví a hacer la hoguera, até la bala a la verguilla y la puse al fuego, con la seguridad de que esta vez no detonaría.

El fuego derritió el plomo que había en la bala y, con mucho cuidado, le puse un trozo de alambre. Al final tuve mi colgante y una experiencia que nunca olvidaré.

What have I seen on Netflix? The game (Le jeu)

Source

OPINION

A few weeks ago I finished watching the French film The Game (Le jeu) and I have to say that I really liked it. A film that begins as the typical French comedy, but that goes convoluted, perhaps because of the eclipse, and becomes a drama based on lies and infidelities.

This film is the French version of "Perfetti sconosciuti" by Paolo Genovese. I haven't had the opportunity to see one or the other, so I don't have an opinion about those films, although if I had seen them, I don't know if I would have seen this French version.

Source of the video: Mars Films

I thought it was the right start to the film, which is none other than new technologies, in particular the use of smartphones and their privacy between the couple and friends.

I also liked its plot development and how all the characters have a prominent role in it and the messages it sends us about love in couple, friendship, secrets between friends and family.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET

Produced by: Mars Films / Medset Films / France 2 Cinema / C8 Films.

Script: Fred Cavayé.

Date: 2018.

Cast: Roschdy Zem, Bérénice Bejo, Suzanne Clément, Doria Tillier, Stéphane De Groodt, Vincent Elbaz, Grégory Gadebois.

Duration : 1h 33 min.

SYNOPSIS

Several couples meet for dinner and during dinner decide to play a game that consists of putting all mobile phones in the center of the table and all communications that reach the terminals are heard and read by all attendees. The game starts with a few laughs, but it will get complicated.

La mano del dólar

Fuente: propia

El magnífico escultor Etual, @elportugal, nos muestra otra vez una obra de arte y como, hace algún tiempo, con un motivo de denuncia. Esta vez una mano que representa al todo poderoso dólar, que tira de una cremallera que abre el mundo en el que nos encontramos todo nosotros, pendientes de los «likes» de este mundo tan interactuado.

Entrando en el detalle de la escultura, como pueden ver, no exagero cuando digo que es una obra de arte de este escultor Gran Canario, que deja toda su maestría y sabiduría escultórica en cada obra que hace. El nivel de detalle de las manos es espectacular, tanto, que parece que la mano saliera de la misma arena. También hay que destacar la flecha, constituida por miles de personas, obnubiladas por las redes sociales que caminan, sin remedio, hacia lo que parece ser un tumba.

Fuente: propia

Estas obras construidas en la arena, que nacen para morir, como si fuera una alegoría de nuestra vida, que también nacemos para, algún día, dejar de existir.

Sin duda una obra extraordinaria la de Etual Ojeda.