6/27,28/12
On Wednesday and Thursday we watched this movie called "Abril Despedaçado". It is about family feuds, honor, traditions, change and hope. All of this happens in Sertão, where the lack of water and the harsh lives of the people who worked on the sugar cane farms tried to survive in the early 1900's.
Guided by Professor Fitzgibbon we were able to point out some of the dichotomies in the movie and the readings we have been doing and we came up with a lot. Like tradition vs modern, honor vs reason, education vs ignorance, rain vs drought, dead vs living, rich vs poor, and others. In relationship to the movie and Brazil, it made me wonder about the things that need to be changed to help the country advance, like education, and the things that are best left in its original form, like the Amazon forest. Although I am in favor of progress in general, I think we need to be careful with the culture and other aspects of a country when trying to improve it. For example, I would never change the rich traditions of the north esterners and their talent for crafts and music (forró) here in Brazil, but I would love to see the roads we have been traveling on fixed and in better shape ha ha. I have noticed that the people we talk to in the stores or buses or taxis are very proud of their cultural heritage, and are always telling us about things to do and see. I love it!
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