Mr. Stranger

Hi, do you see this picture? Yeah? …Well, I'm gonna tell the story about this guy:

First of all he wasn't a human, he was a Smurf (yes, believe it or not), the specifically the Dreamy Smurf (Schtroumpf Rêveur if you want to name him by his name or Astrosmurf called by his friends).

Astrosmurf was always dream about other places and different people (some inhabitants thank that Astrosmurf get high and eat too much mushrooms), but in fact, he was dreaming about our world.

One day when he felt so lonely and sad, he went to the crypt of Gargamel, the evil sorcerer. Gargamel offered him the possibility of turning into a human in exchange for his voice (this is not a plagiarism of “The little mermaid”).

So Gargamel put the little smurf in a toilet, shook his wand and pulled the chain and in a blink of an eye Astrosmurf appeared in Nagasaki on 9 of August of 1945, seconds before of the explosion caused by the atomic bomb, so what do you see is the picture of Astrosmurf trying to ask for help when he appeared in a theater and didn’t have a voice to be listened to.. Later the bomb fell and left the silhouette of the silent smurf.

And the lesson is: if you are a smurf, never believe in a dark wizard (:

The dreamers

It's was a movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in the 2003, based in the novel The Holy Innocents of Gilbert Aldair. 

The movie was set in May of 68's at the students riots where a american university student (Matthew, performed by Michael Pitt) meets two singulars brothers (Isabelle and Theo, performed by Eva Green and Louis Garrel respectively) who love the classical cinema; they become friends and Matthew notice the dependency relation between the brothers, that according they, they were siamese.

After sharing with them, Matthew fell in love of both, and they end up involved in a relation that mixed sex, politics and the taste of movies. 

Why I love this film?, because I consider so interesting the reference of classical cinema; the sweeping plot, that struck and move you; how the characters played their role in the movie, and the ending that leave you with a lump in your throat.

I can only talk about this film referring to visual pleasure, every scene had a “magic” inside it like the moment when Isabelle recreates the Venus de Milo (in the photograph).

A good movie to see, that I always recommend. Enjoy it.

Merton

Well, I have to talk about somebody that I admire [about my "field" that is to say sociology (although I don’t even finish the first year in the university)]... but I consider that I don't know enough to talk about somebody; I need to read, study, mature and reflect more to choose somebody proper and strong arguments.
But I have to write this post and I am going to talk about Robert King Merton because my father on last Christmas gave me a book; the book’s name was “Social Theory and Social Structure” written by Merton. That was my first reading of sociological theory and this book help me at the subject of anthropology about functionalism and structuralism.
Robert Merton was an American sociologist that spends the most of his career teaching at Columbia University; father of the theory of manifest and latent function and the theories of middle range and he was recognized for study the sociology of science. He died at 92 years in 2003.
Some books that he wrote was
§ Social Theory and Social Structure
§ The Sociology of Science
§ Sociological Ambivalence
§ On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
§ On Social Structure and Science