Romeo + Julieta

I remember that the first time I saw Romeo + Juliet was 13 years old and I had already read Shakespeare's novel.  Personally I had not been fascinated by the book, but the screenplay of this film blew my mind.  In those years I did not know Baz Luhrmann, director of the film,   but the richness of the images and his baroque and grotesque style, made me fall in love with his work after seeing this film in which he maintained the essential romance of the characters but modified the character’s context, making the Capuletos and Montescos families a gang of thugs that confront through the territory of "Verona Beach" a city that would be the mix between Miami and a typical city in Mexico such as Monterrey or Mexico City.

I have always considered myself a person who focuses on the aesthetics of the movies, that's why I love classic films that maintain an essence that is very difficult to see in today's cinema, although I must admit that Romeo + Julieta is not at all  a classic film, although its script is, its aesthetic is totally contemporary.  A film so well thought on an aesthetic level that I personally think it’s made to never take your eyes off of it. Its neon lights, its Mexican colors and aesthetics and its intentionally chosen wardrobe are some of the highlights of this film, which  has great performances by Leonardo Dicaprio (Romeo), Claire Danes (Juliet), Harold Perrineau (Mercury) and John Leguizamo (Theobald).

                   

The scene I love most about this film is the party in which Romeo + Julieta is known, since the decision of the director to make it a hidden costume party is a sense of reflecting the essence of each character, positioning Julieta as a virginal angel, Romeo as a knight, Theobald as the devil and Mercury as a transvestite, subliminally inscribed on the scene the perception of the characters that the director had. Plus I find fascinating that all the verses that Romeo utters before and during the party are justified by the fact that Mercury gave him an LSD before going to sneak into the event of the Capulets.

A subject you enjoyed studying this term 🎓🔥

the topic that I was most interested in talking about was gender, since it is something that is currently relevant nationally and globally.  It is also a theme that is related not only directly to feminism, but also to issues that concern sex minorities like trans people.

It was also interesting to talk about technology and thing about the technological object closest to us, which made us question ourselves a bit in the era in which we were living and as our priorities are directly relate to these technological objects, I personally cannot live without my music

 And last but not least, the post about ourselves, how to make an autobiography or talk about a photo that meant a lot to us. These posts were also very interesting to do since they gave an insight to ourselves and often helped us to breathe through these rough times (the end of the semester)

A career-related website/ an expert on your field 🤖

Journalism is always analyzing and looking for emblematic cases in society to investigate which is why as journalists we always have to be up to date with the current news and national contingency, to achieve this we can use various resources including  the internet that it is one of the most important, through this tool we can find different pages that can give us the information needed to develop a topic and provide us with the current news, these pages can be:

DIXIT.IO

https://dixit.io

This page selects the most important news by collecting them from different media.  It is excellent to always be aware of the national guideline and to be always informed.

THE WEB PAGES OF THE DIARIES

https://www.latercera.com/

https://digital.elmercurio.com/mobile

You can never miss the bookmarks on your cell phone, at least not if you are a journalist, and the webpages of the newspapers help you to be always informed of the latest news and reports.

TWITTER

https://mobile.twitter.com/home

I know it is not a page, but one of the most important and relevant platform nowadays is Twitter, so you can be informed minute by minute about what is happening globally.

Gender roles and stereotypes 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️

Gender roles and stereotypes have always been a part of society, I personally believe that it is because of the religions that limit some of our social margins. An example of these Gender roles in our actual society is reflected in the jobs or the assigned tasks given to every Gender, that is to say that I am girl, I have to be housewife, get married and have children, while if I were a man, I could have jobs and less limitation.

Nowadays a global change is being generated about Gender themes and stereotypes, the ideas that women have been subjected to for many years, under the concepts that the state founded and internalized in a sexist thought that only seeks to degrade woman has become widespread. That is why they have generated massive manifestations and protests against the patriarchy that has constantly tried to have dominion over our bodies and our minds.

Within this same theoretical framework we have stereotypes that are not alien to gender roles, leaving much to be desired, since all they do is frame and square people according to a supposed role they must follow to adapt to morality, which is socially inculcated by a conservative thought that limits the individual, and not only speaks of the idea of ​​man and woman, but of the self-denial that exists about sexual minorities, such as transgender people.

Perhaps for many people, nowadays it can be an aberration to try to raise gender issues and fight to break the current social norms, especially conservative people and older adults who are used to this type of oppression, but we must fight to break these stigmas that all they do is break us as a society and show that maybe we are not as evolved as we think, because a gender or your sexuality does not define everything you are as a person.