11 de abril de 2010

Soul Kitchen

First challenge of the weekend: to have company to go to the cinema.
Usually I like to go to the cinema alone, because I don't like to think the other person isn't going to like the film I've chosen after reading and re-reading the film guide so many times.

Second: to chose something the other person wants to watch.
What if you like and the other doesn't like? I confess... this is a disaster for me.

Third: give up on your choice to watch what the other wants.

I was hoping to watch Das Weisse Band  but my dear friend was tired of films about nazism and the big wars.

That's how I've chosen Soul Kitchen, German-Greek production supposed  to be fun.When I arrived at the
cinema, I saw the director was Fatih Akin... Well, the last film I saw directed by him was Gegen die Wand and instantly thought "Soul Kitchen is going to be fantastic". Soon after, I thought "Thomaz will hate that". But both of us lauhgt a lot and left the cinema happier.
It wasn't a complex history about life, universe and its everyday drama. It was what I call "a story easy to assimilate". And because it isn't easy to make a great film based on an relatively easy screenplay, Fatih Akin demonstrated he is definitely a genious.
All the terrible things in the world happens to Zinos Kazantsakis (the main character) and he doesn't make use of positive thinking. He gets mad, as me, you and even Thomaz! But Fatih shows them to us with a non-dramtic view and the audience keeps laughing... I'm sure everybody thinks "great that this is not happening to ME". So the formula is laugh on the other's tragedy... And feel relieved when things are fixed.

I admit that's not easy to laugh on our own tragedy. But this film made me think we may laugh on our own tragedy more frequently, making life funnier. Also, we can make great things of simple thoughts. in synthesis, probably life is really simpler than we realize.