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- Whiplash The last Saturday was a snowing, so my boyfriend and me decided to go to the cinema to see Whiplash. We chose that film for two reasons, firstly because we have read a lot of good reviews about it, and the second reason was that my boyfriend is professional drummer and the film is about a young drummer who wanted to be remembered like best musician in history, so he decided to study in the best musical academy of EEUU, with a very exigent teacher. In summary we don´t like the film, and I would like to explain why. My boyfriend found a lot of musical incongruities which obviously I didn´t realize. I only could notice that for the director the faster you play the drum the better musician you are. But for me, a person who have been teacher for some years, It worried to me that the director confused to be an exigent teacher with to be an abuser and find the way to justify it. If the main character´s hand blooded due to the long time he pass practicing is because he doesn´t have good technique not because of the effort, if he doesn´t get to play in the correct “tempo” is because nobody have teach him what it is. I don´t recommend this film to young people who was beginning their professional careers because It could make them believe that to get to be the best in their professions they have to renounce to their personal live, it doesn´t mind if they enjoy with that or not and, if it is necessary, they must hurt theirselves and let their mentors humiliate them and attack them without any reason, instead of teach them how make their work correctly. The message that tries to transmit that film is: if you get to be the best and be remembered for that, everything is justified. I don´t share the opinion of the director, I think that the best way to get to be the best in your profession is enjoy your job, working hard and being a equilibrate person.
January 19, 201530 - Disappeared twin syndrome in human evolution The study of human evolution is a young science in spite of our origin has been a mystery that has obsessed us since we are aware of ourselves. In the last years we have resolve some aspects of this mystery getting an open window to our past. Now a day, we can say with some confidence that our origin was in Africa, we come from small primates like chimpanzees, bipedalism has been one of the most important advantages of these groups such as the meat incorporation in their diet… But there is an aspect about our evolution that attracts my attention especially is the fact that we have walked with other species, very similar to us, until 30.000 years ago. At the beginning these species were ecological competitors, group with which we had to fight for the resources, sometimes directly, sometimes with our biological skills, and finally became extinct. In the Middle Paleolithic appeared more complex groups in Europe and Asia that coexisted with our ancestors. When the first fossils of these groups were discoverer, in the early twentieth century, were interpreted like pathological individuals not as members of other species and this idea was maintained in the following years. That´s the reason why we tend to believe that Neanderthals, for example, where dimwit, primitives, rough… but now we know that they have enough cognitive abilities to perform complex funerary rites, decorate their body, create beautiful and useful tools, develop difficult hunt strategies… we swapped culture and objects with then, even DNA, the 2% of our DNA come from Neanderthals. It should be impressive and terrific al the same time meet with someone very different to you but equally intelligent. This aspect about our evolution make me think if our obsession about aliens or monsters, most of the times anthropomorphic, could be a disappeared twin syndrome.
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