My favorite movie

It wasn’t easy to choose just one favorite movie, since I love so many. Some of them are funny, like Clueless; other ones are romantic, like Your Name; while many of them are very intense and reflexive. But there is one particular movie that makes me feel and think things that I’ve never felt before, the experience at the cinema theater was unique and that’s why I choose to talk about it. It’s called “El Abrazo de la Serpiente”, by the Colombian Ciro Guerra, and it was nominated to the Oscars in the international movie section in 2016. The movie is about an amazonian indigenous called Karamakate that helps two anthropologists during two periods of his life. Meanwhile, the colonists are exterminating the Amazon to exploit the gaucho, and are slaughtering the population, killing them and imposing them to learn the occidental culture, and to abandon their own culture and language. I went to watch this movie to the cinema with my ex-girlfriend and both of us were crying during the whole movie. I wanted to leave the cinema because I wasn’t standing so much pain, and I felt like I understood for the first time the true meaning of what I’m studying (which is anthropology). I had to came back to the cinema the very next day with my mom because I needed her to feel what I felt. Changing the subject, the last movie I watched was “El Ángel Exterminador” by Luis Buñuel. I enjoyed it very much since it is very funny and surreal, and you can also analyze deep subjects of the society and our culture but in a lighter way.

El Abrazo de la Serpiente