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Atlas: the new movie from Jennifer Lopez

 

    Atlas is a sci-fi thriller in which humanity faces the fury of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Filled with impressive visuals and intense action sequences, the movie explores themes of technology, ethics, and humanity’s future in an increasingly interconnected world. However, despite Jennifer Lopez’s convincing performance, the film’s predictability impedes its potential to become an incredible masterpiece.

    Jennifer Lopez is simply superb as a human distrusting machine. Her struggle to survive the battle and her transformation from analyst to combat fighter are convincing. Simu Liu, as the villainous robotic character Harlan, is believable, though he could have been more impactful. Sterling K. Brown, as Colonel Elias, delivers a strong performance, and Abraham Popoola, as the unbeatable AI fighter Casca, is brilliant. In a limited role as Atlas’s mother, Lana Parrilla plays a key character in the film.

(Archika Khurana. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 24.05.2024. Adaptado.)

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You’ve seen this movie before, but Jack and Morgan make it taste better than average

    A car mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and a billionaire hospital CEO Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with cancer. They become friends as they undergo their respective treatments. Carter is a gifted amateur historian and family man. Edward is a four-times-divorced healthcare tycoon and cultured loner who enjoys drinking expensive coffee and tormenting his personal assistant.

    Carter begins writing a “bucket list,” or things to do before he “kicks the bucket.” After hearing he has less than a year to live, Carter crumples it up and tosses it on the floor. When Edward finds the list, he urges Carter to do everything on the list and offers to finance the trip. Carter agrees and the pair begins an around-the-world vacation, embarking on race car driving, skydiving, climbing the Pyramids, and going on a lion safari in Africa.

    As much as I love Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, I wasn’t very excited about seeing this movie... it looked really cheesy, and the reviews were not good at all. It turned out pretty good, actually... We’ve all seen movies about people who find out they only have some time left and make a list of things to do before dying, and The Bucket List is not original or innovative at all, but Nicholson and Freeman alone make it worth seeing. It’s not sappy as most movies about terminal patients and it’s entertaining enough.

    And even though it doesn’t intend to be serious or thought-provoking, death is always a delicate issue, and this movie might make you reflect about how you spend your time: in movies, people only start living to the fullest when they get to know they’re about to die. That’s something we should all think about: we should all enjoy more the present instead of worrying so much about the future, because, unfortunately, there’s no such thing as life guarantee.

 

For its humor and tenderness, The Bucket List deserves a 7.5/10 from me.

 

Glossary:

Bucket list: a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying.

To kick the bucket: to die.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucket%20list. [Adapted]. Image source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825232/?ref_=ttpl_ov. [Adapted].

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You’ve seen this movie before, but Jack and Morgan make it taste better than average

    A car mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and a billionaire hospital CEO Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with cancer. They become friends as they undergo their respective treatments. Carter is a gifted amateur historian and family man. Edward is a four-times-divorced healthcare tycoon and cultured loner who enjoys drinking expensive coffee and tormenting his personal assistant.

    Carter begins writing a “bucket list,” or things to do before he “kicks the bucket.” After hearing he has less than a year to live, Carter crumples it up and tosses it on the floor. When Edward finds the list, he urges Carter to do everything on the list and offers to finance the trip. Carter agrees and the pair begins an around-the-world vacation, embarking on race car driving, skydiving, climbing the Pyramids, and going on a lion safari in Africa.

    As much as I love Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, I wasn’t very excited about seeing this movie... it looked really cheesy, and the reviews were not good at all. It turned out pretty good, actually... We’ve all seen movies about people who find out they only have some time left and make a list of things to do before dying, and The Bucket List is not original or innovative at all, but Nicholson and Freeman alone make it worth seeing. It’s not sappy as most movies about terminal patients and it’s entertaining enough.

    And even though it doesn’t intend to be serious or thought-provoking, death is always a delicate issue, and this movie might make you reflect about how you spend your time: in movies, people only start living to the fullest when they get to know they’re about to die. That’s something we should all think about: we should all enjoy more the present instead of worrying so much about the future, because, unfortunately, there’s no such thing as life guarantee.

 

For its humor and tenderness, The Bucket List deserves a 7.5/10 from me.

 

Glossary:

Bucket list: a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying.

To kick the bucket: to die.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucket%20list. [Adapted]. Image source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825232/?ref_=ttpl_ov. [Adapted].

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  One of the things that made an incredible impression on me in the fil'm was Frida's comfort in and celebration of her own unique beauty. She didn't try to fit into conventional ideas or images about womanhood or what makes someone or something beautiful. lnstead, she fully inhabited her own unique gifts, not particularly caring what other people thought. She was magnetic and beautiful in her own right. She painted for years, not to be a commercial success or to be discovered, but to express her own inner pain, joy, family, lave and culture. She absolutely and resolutely was who she was. The trueness of her own unique vision and her ability to stand firmly in her own truth was what made her successful in the end.

HUTZLER, L. Disponível em: www.etbscreenwriting.com. Acesso em: 6 maio 2013.

 

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[1] GIVEN TABLETS BUT NO TEACHERS, ETHIOPIAN CHILDREN TEACH THEMSELVES

 

[2] A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown “encouraging” results.

 

[3] With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child
[4] (OLPC) organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages−simply dropping off tablet computers
[5] with preloaded programs and seeing what happens.

 

[6] The goal: to see if illiterate kids with no previous exposure to written words can learn how to read all by themselves,
[7] by experimenting with the tablet and its preloaded alphabet-training games, e-books, movies, cartoons, paintings,
[8] and other programs. Early observations are encouraging, said Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC’s founder, at MIT Technology
[9] Review’s EmTech conference last week.

 

[10] The devices involved are Motorola Zoom tablets−used together with a solar charging system, which OLPC workers
[11] had taught adults in the village to use. Once a week, an OLPC worker visits the villages and swaps out memory cards
[12] so that researchers can study how the machines were actually used.

 

[13] After several months, the kids in both villages were still heavily engaged in using and recharging the machines, and
[14] had been observed reciting the “alphabet song,” and even spelling words. One boy, exposed to literacy games with
[15] animal pictures, opened up a paint program and wrote the word “Lion.”

 

[16] The experiment is being done in two isolated rural villages with about 20 first-grade-aged children each, about 50
[17] miles from Addis Ababa. One village is called Wonchi, on the rim of a volcanic crater at 11,000 feet; the other is
[18] called Wolonchete, in the Rift Valley. Children there had never previously seen printed materials, road signs, or even
[19] packaging that had words on them, Negroponte said.

 

[20] Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I
[21] thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off
[22] switch… powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were
[23] singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot
[24] in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked
[25] Android.”

 

[26] Elaborating later on Negroponte’s hacking comment, ED McNierney, OLPC’s chief technology officer, said that the
[27] kids had gotten around OLPC’s effort to freeze desktop settings. “The kids had completely customized the desktop−so
[28] every kids’ tablet looked different. We had installed software to prevent them from doing that,” McNierney said. “And
[29] the fact they worked around it was clearly the kind of creativity, the kind of inquiry, the kind of discovery that we think
[30] is essential to learning.”

 

[31] “If they can learn to read, then they can read to learn,” Negroponte said (see “Emtech Preview: Another Way to Think
[32] About Learning”).

 

[33] In an interview after his talk, Negroponte said that while the early results are promising, reaching conclusions about
[34] whether children could learn to read this way would require more time. “If it gets funded, it would need to continue for
[35] another a year and a half to two years to come to a conclusion that the scientific community would accept,” Negroponte
[36] said. “We’d have to start with a new village and make a clean start.”

 

[37] Giving computers directly to poor kids without any instruction is even more ambitious than OLPC’s earlier pushes.
[38] “What can we do for these 100 million kids around the world who don’t go to school?” McNierney said. “Can we
[39] give them tool to read and learn−without having to provide schools and teachers and textbooks and all that?”

 

[40] Technology Review published by MIT, 29/10/2012
[41] Adapted from http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children teach-themselves/

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  In short, Virginia Woolf suggests that time exists in different forms. It exists in the external world, but also — and perhaps more importantly — in our internal world. Her description of the loud and rushing civilization suggests that we push ahead in the name of progress, without fully appreciating the moment. Through the character of Clarissa, Woolf challenges the usual definition of success. Perhaps we need not leave some magnificent gift behind in the form of a building or a concrete art piece. Instead, maybe it is how we live our lives and our appreciation for the present that are truly more powerful and eternal. The small gifts we offer others, like bringing people together through a party, can touch people differently than a monument.

  Woolf’s message about time should be heeded. Our rush to leave a dramatic mark in the world leads to further destruction. Tension abounds in our modern world as we create technology to increase our efficiency. Our civilization tends to see scientific and monumental achievements as the most valid measures of an individual’s success. However, in the process, our communities disintegrate. More and more people complain of feeling alienated. The evidence surrounds us. The internal time that allows us to slow down and be involved with people finds itself dominated by external societal time. Some might find Clarissa Dalloway’s gift to the world to be trivial. However, we need individuals with the ability to pull people together — people with the ability to create community where it no longer exists.

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The text conveys the idea that

Woolf believes that external time is more important than internal time.