Have you ever watched a movie with a female character that is quirky, adventurous and "not like other girls"? If your answer is 'yes', you may have encountered with the 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. The term was coined by film critic, Nathan Rabin, in 2007 to describe a character who serves as a catalyst for the male protagonist's growth and transformation. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl if often outgoing, she approaches the protagonist first; whimsical and, even if these girls are p

"Hay tres clases de personas, los de arriba, los de abajo, los que caen." There are three kinds of people, those at the top, those at the bottom and those who fall. Goreng (a name that means "fried" in both Indonesian and Malay languages) wakes up on Level 48 of the pit. The pit is a system where people are left in a cell; everyone gets a cell partner and, in the middle of the cell, there is a hole, one that carries a moving platform with a feast. The whole purpose of the sys

Megamind, a movie released in 2010 and directed by Tom McGrath is a movie about rediscovery, particularly, of our protagonist, Megamind, a blue skinned alien who proclaims himself as a villain. In the beginning, Megamind is an innocent child whose expectations of the world are limited, due to the fact that his entire planet was abducted by a black hole. HIs parents send him to another planet, the Earth, for him to start a new life. Little did he know that another alien, Metro

This isn't a love story. This is a story about love. "This is a story about boy meets girl" The boy, Tom, grew up believing that the world could never truly be happy until the day he met his soul mate. We are introduced to Tom with this line, telling us a lot about him with just a few words. A boy who thinks that romantic partners are supposed to fulfill the emptiness inside someone, to complete them, a totally false statement. We see that Tom is very similar to the common vi

There has been 40 years since the release of this amazing movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis. Zemeckis himself told once that his idea for Back to the Future came to him when looking at his father's yearbook and wondering what would have happened if he had gone to school with him, would they have been friends? This movie takes this concept and makes it into one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, a movie about family and time travel. Marty is a normal teenager. He goes

The film, released in 2004 and based on a novel with the same name, written by Nicholas Sparks, is, I have to admit, extremely beautiful in its style. The color and softness of the filters let have a warm atmosphere, making a visible contrast between the scenes set in the 1940's and the present timeline. It also gives an emphasis on the time period using things like clothing and its soundtrack. But what is behind all of that beauty? What dos the plot teach us about love? Let'