Let's change the subject - Volume 2 Ep1 - HUGO

How does it feel to go to the cinema and experience wonderful words, magical characters, a rollercoaster of all kind of emotions?

That is what the movie Hugo is all about that, the true essence of the cinema.
Way before the special effects, gadgets and technologies a film was something magical; like “seeing your dreams during the day,” and it is that essence that Martin Scorsese brings us with Hugo.

Revealing the story of this movie is pretty much like knowing what you going to get before Christmas; the excitement, isn’t the same, not is the reaction when you finally open it. Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is not a movie of twists and turns, plots and under plots, it is simple, what you see is what you get, but you have to look at it closely.

The past, the present and the future are tied together, by different actors from different generations showing us the essence of the films. It would be easy to talk about Christopher Lee or Sir Ben Kingsley, but I think I owe to Asa Butterfield, to mention his name. This young actor has being showing bits of his talent here and there, as Modred in BBC Merlin, or as Bruno the young boy in The boy in the stripped pyjamas, and I dare to say we are going to hear a lot more from this young actor.

As many I am a fan of cinema, but today I came to you humble acknowledging that I know nothing about cinema. Sure I know the Lumière brothers, but after that and before “Gone with the wind.” I literally know nothing. Back then when the movies were silent, black and white and were colour frame by frame. “We had fun back then” I bet they did. And so seeing Hugo is going back to the simple to magical, not only by the way the movie is told, but also by the presence of great actors, that lend their talent to make this a hommage  au cinéma.

Me vs First Day of Work

As you probably are aware I don’t write about myself. The (fictional) characters I write about are not real and any resemblance with reality may be pure coincidence.

First day of work is always a pain. For starters you always go way to much fancy and formal for what is required on your job, it don’t really care if it’s a formal or casual dress code, you always go a little bit too much.

Don’t matter what you’re supposed to do, in that first day (or week) you follow people around and do whatever you’re told to, and smile a lot, although in my case that happens always (the smiling not the working).

The “best part” is that you always wake up early to arrive on time and set up a record of punctuality, that you know you’ll end up breaking it after two or three weeks (who knows, maybe earlier), of course none of your superiors (or the people you work with) arrived at the schedule time, unless in that one day your alarm clock don’t wake you, or the bathroom is flooded or you miss your bus. In that one day be sure everyone will be asking or needing you.

First week is also when you do a lot of screw-ups, don’t try to avoid, it will happen sooner or later, and you’ll be messing up with a thousand of Euros in equipment long before you realize.

That, of course, never happened to me, although I know a friend of mine…

The thing is starting a new job is not always easy and you problem have the same problems every time, so just keep it calm and smile, because everyone else is.