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I m allways happy to go back to a big city, because
most of the time they give the opportunity to do a lot
of different things. Melbourne is definitly one of my
favorite visited place in Oceania because it is a very
poly cultural place. A little bit of history, a interesting
Architecture, a lots of events and street crowded with
people. What you search you find here. At Night you
can walk at 2 oclock and there are still people walking
on the streets, reflecting the good nightlife.
Nightlife:
My first compagnon in Melbourne is Jeff, a canadian
guy, nice with a strange funny humor. The Pub Crawl
was the starter of the nightlife. The young hostel organized
a kind of bar discovering tour. Imagine 30 people going
from bar to bar. Its a nice thing to do for meeting
new people in different places, and also a cheap thing.
2 Dollars for the first drink. For me Red bull most
of the time....I love it.
Then the disco time. Jeff and me landed in front of
a disco where just asiatic people stayed in the line.
A indonesian party. Well I don t care lets try it. The
girl at the entry look at us strangely and ask us if
we don t mind to be the only caucasian customer. Nop.
We entered and it seemes to be in asia.
The other place to go out is the Metro, a big disco
with 3 different stage. One pop to techno, one other
for R&B and an other with a like music rock band.
The first time I went there it was the top, the second
time a flop. If you prefer a Bar and lounge, on the
Elysabeth street you can find a good one, called something
with 72 ? Very good music and nice atmosphare.
Events:
When I arrived in Melbourne the International
Film Festival of the city was just started. A good selection
of international movies from documentary to science
fiction film, every theme, every type of movies are
represented. I decided to buy a card witch allowed me
to see 13 films.
So each day I appreciated different movies, and meet
inside the theater interesting people.
My favorite films are following:
- Nobody Knows (Japan): a lovely story
built on impression and observation of a 4 children
family. The kid have just a mother and each of them
different father. They are smuggled in suitcase in a
new appartement in Tokyo where they hide. One day the
mother vanishes, leaving behind some money and a note
for the eldest child Akira, asking him to look after
the others. The cituation become critik...
- Nina: (brazil) young Nina, an intelligent
and talented comic strip artist has a full time job
attending hip parties and scraping to enough money to
finance her lifestyle. This latter activity is however
not very successful and she has great difficulty coughing
up the rent for landlady Eulalia. The two housemaster
make life as difficult as possible for each other and
the everyday harassment goes from bad to worse. Nina
s situation in the chaos of Sao Paulo and she flees
more often and futher into the world of her violent
comic stips. Slowly but surely she slide into insanity...
- The Five Obstruction (Denmark): Danish
enfant terrible Lars von Trier, enters the world of
filmmaking, challengin Leth a filmmaker to remake 5
times his 13 minutes film called the Perfect Human.
But to make the film more difficult Lars chose to add
obstructions. The vicious game start...
" A fascinating meditation on filmmaking and
a remarkable intellectual exercice, the Five Obstructions
illustrates the way in wich innovation flourishes in
the wake of adversity. It also offers conclusive proof
of von Trier s outrageous genius" BBC FILMS
- Tongue Tied (Korea):Short movie.
The shooking occurrence of parents who have their children
undergo tongue surgery in order to pronounce the English
"R". This is the first film where I was close
to loose my conscience. Imagine a child in a Operation
room for children. The operation for cuting the tongue
begin followed by the scream of the child. Camera get
closer each time....Horrible but welldone.
- 9/11 Farenheit (USA): Michael Moore
and the critic of the Bush family. An explosive documentary
before new presidential election in USA.. Why does the
gouvernment leader don t send they child to Irak, what
profit makes Bush in the Irak, how did Bush became president,
what did Bush do to prevent 9-11, ....tousend question
that Michael Moore force to be answered.
- Notre Musique: (France) Godard: reflexion
about our world and the wars that allways repeat the
same process. Godard ask here for tolerance.
Exposition in the Potter art gallerie:
A very interesting expostion of modern media art. The
creator use the modern media to create a artwork where
the spectator become part of the active process of creativity
and so part of the art pieces.
Young Hostel:
Was situated in the center of the city, all the people
I meet where very nice. Maybie just one or two strange
guy. One who spend his time trying to unlock his 4 numbers
locker. Each night he seat down and try one after the
other the numbers...0001, 0002, 0003, ....When he left
the room he didn t cracked his number. I told him to
buy a new one for 5 box but well...
I realy enjoy my time with you friends....keep in contact
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