If...

Marlon Brando, "Há Lodo no Cais", Elia Kazan, 1954.

 If

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
  And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

*Posted by Hood

Bekas

Diya Mariwan, Sarwar Fazil, "Bekas", Karzan Kader, 2012

"Bekas" é um retrato belo do amor, que resiste às maiores atrocidades humanas num autêntico  cenário de terror da guerra. Num mundo onde as crianças têm de ser homens mais cedo, de se desenvencilharem e sobreviverem, existe espaço também para a fantasia, e a ilusão. Karzan Kader apresenta-nos dois irmãos órfãos, corajosos, mas muito inocentes, e naif, que sonham fugir da invasão do Saddam Hussein  no Curdistão, e rumarem em direcção à América, montados no seu burro chamado Michael Jackson, onde irão conhecer o Super-homem, que acreditam que irá ajudá-los a derrubar o ditador iraquiano. O realizador consegue, com esta comovente história, nos fazer sorrir com a ingenuidade dos meninos, e simultâneamente tocar no nosso âmago, ferindo-nos a alma com a visão angustiante deste bravos sobreviventes, que  sonham com a união familiar, a felicidade e o amor, num mundo deles, no qual não conseguem discernir entre a realidade e o universo feérico.... preencheu-me o dia!

Hood

*posted by Hood