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.

A Photograph and it’s story 👀

I Love This photo. It was taken when I was at the beach with friends from university in Las Cruces. In this photograph we appear together and we look happy, personally I think that these were the best days of my recent years.

We decided to runway for two days to the house of “Josecito”, he is this boy that is using a red sweatshirt. It was the best decision we could have made because it was like going to a spiritual retreat, since we were all very stressed and being in another place outside of Santiago helped us relax.

Taking this picture was a bit chaotic as there was no one else on the beach because it was a weekday so we had to wait for half an hour for someone to pass and ask him to take the picture, but when we achieved the result it was the best, because this photo reflects one of the best moments of my life.

Hobbie and Pastime ✍🏾🌈

To be realistic, i forgot about my hobbies for some time, since I have been very busy with university, my family and my work. Currently i have no time to spare, I actually lack time.

As I said before, I like to paint and draw a lot, before my favorite pastime was painting a picture and drawing in a croquette, but now the only thing I can do to fulfill my passion is to paint in the wall of my bedroom that has a special slate paint and start drawing little by little, so you could say that this is currently my hobby.

I used to like to exercise and run, but my level of anxiety can no longer be controlled with exercise, so it's been hard for me to continue with my routine, but I think I'll never stop drawing again.  Like sometimes I like to watch classic movies I feel that I enjoy them a lot, especially when they are black and white because they reflect in some way the perspectives of life of previous years and I am passionate about that.

My favorite Piece of TechNology

I have loved music since I was born, I can not live without it. that's why I think that my little piece of technology is the music players of any style, whether old or new, any element that generates a slight melody manages to move my heart and my soul.

When I was a child I received a small radio adapted for CDs, although there were other music players in my house, my first approach to this branch of art was through this player. from it, I met several artists at that time. my favorite was Julieta Venegas. From this approach I also realized how it affects me and my emotions, how it encouraged me and motivated me when I was sad, and in a way, how it complemented my daily life.  At 15 I got an mp3 player, so I started to breathe music, I could not continue my daily life without it.

Today there are cell phones that have different functions, among them, is the function of playing music. although I still keep my mp3 music, because as long as I can continue playing it, it will remain as a part of my life, because I think that every song that I have heard in my life and that I have made my favorite is now a part of my life, of my changes, of my growth and my emotional states. what I want to say is that music is like a journal of my everyday life.

Anecdote 🆘

After leaving my first career I had some very lonely months but I also had the time to learn to know the world around me and the simple but coherent fact that life continues even though you feel you can not do it.  maybe that was my biggest lesson

During my sabbatical half year I practiced fabrics, I read many books and I started to visit places that in my life I never thought I was going to go alone, I also had to work,and that helped me monetarily and to organize myself.  All this, I think, helped me to create a better version of myself and mature because in those years I had the feeling that I had always been locked in a bubble that protected me and kept me from the outside

Why Journalism ✨

I always loved journalism, but I must admit that I was quite confused about what I wanted to do with my life when I was six years old.  for some time I seemed very confident, but nobody knew that inside of me, I was afraid of having to make a decision that I believed in that moment, it would mark my life forever.

At the beginning I studied design because I thought that that career would bring me closer to what I've wanted to do all my life, that is: to become an editor in a magazine, then I realized how competitive the artistic careers are, and i started to lose my desire to draw and I abruptly moved away from art.  After a while I meditated on my decision and reformulated my idea of ​​working in magazines but from another perspective, that is from journalism and this opened doors and windows that remind me of how much I love this career and to lose a little of my fear of failure.

currently my dream is to be an editor of a magazine, that is layers x annotated artistic criticism, talk about trends and write about contingencies and issues that affect society as a reporter and report or expose new characters through interviews.