domingo, 31 de julio de 2016

About books and films

One of the things I really enjoy is watch movies, horror movies specially, but lately I have seeing other kind of films, classics like "A Clockwork Orange" or "Modern Times" of Charles Chaplin.
"A Clockwork Orange" is an interesting movie in my opinion, it shows how violence alters behavior and feelings of Alex, the protagonist. He's unable of sizing the damage he makes, in one of his crimes he's caught and detained, and to obtain freedom faster he decides to take a new treatment, which will turn him into a harmless person, who can't be violent but can't defend himself too. Finally, it is assumed that Alex is cured; in this point, personally, I prefer the book's end because it shows to the reader not only Alex's end, if not his friends' end too.
Another book I really enjoyed was "Perfume: The Story of Murderer", which is about a young man, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who has a privileged smell, and from his birth it's surrounded by strange events, for example the fact of that each person who leaves behind dies, strangely. Thanks to his smell and ability, he achieved work with a perfumer, Giuseppe Baldini. He taught Jean-Baptiste technical methods to make perfumes, and the protagonist learns, but later he starts a macabre plan, becoming a murderer of women which fragances were irresistible for him. In my opinion, this is a fantastic story, and the movie is really similar to the book so I recommend both of them, the book first, obviously.
To end, the most recently book I read was "Misery" by Stephen King... it's the first book of him that I read, but I really want more, he can keep your attention through the whole story, he's really the master of horror!