I love cinema, watching movies is one of my favorite things. Though I never thought about it as a real option, I would like to have studied cinema. I think that it's still an option. I think about cinema as an art that involves many skills that are related to other arts. It takes many people with different skills to make a movie, and a movie.
I can't say I like every kind of movie, but I don't have a specific genre that I like the most. I have some favorite directors, as Krzysztof Kieslowski or Agnes Varda, among many others. Last few months I've used 'mubi' to search and watch films, it's a streaming platform.
The last film that I really liked was "The gleaners and I" (original title: les glaneurs et la glaneuse). I found it on mubi, and it was directed and written by Agnes Varda, one of my favorites as I mentioned. The film is a documentary that starts talking about the gleaners, which are the people who goes after the wheat harvest to pick up the rests. They pick up almost as much as the official harvest, and without their job all that wheat would have turned into waste. Varda extrapolates this concept of gleaning, and tries to show how many people 'glean' different objects, not just wheat. Artists, farmers, homeless or just people who doesn't want to see how things are wasted on society, are the protagonists of her film. Besides the topic, the film is really beautiful.
I think that cinema, as most of the art, makes life more interesting.
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