Our future

Now we need to stop our film reviews to talk about an decisive moment in the future of the country, which includes the election for president. The candidates are Ms Rousseff from PT and Mr Serra from PSDB.

Ms Rousseff was a warrior during the militar dictatorship. She seems to be doing better than Serra because she got the assist of the last president, Lula. But she doesn't get any experience in the range of politics.

Mr Serra has got the assist of many important politics like Aecio Neves, Mr Alckmin and Mr Anastasia, but he seems to be losing. Universitary teachers say FHC has "destroyed the universities", then they won't like Serra as a president.

It may be hard to decide who do you vote, but now it's harder to decide who you won't vote. The election is tomorrow and there is a short time. Ms Rousseff and Mr Serra are not the only polemic candidates in Brazil's elections this year, i.e., how could the clown Tiririca become a deputy?

And if Mr Serra and Ms Rousseff are almost in a draw, one single vote can make a big turn.

500 Days of Summer

Releasing year: 2009

Duration: 1h37'

Gender: Comedy, Drama

Director: Marc Webb

Staring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Grey Gubber.

Soundtrack: Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen, Regina Spektor, The Smiths, Black Lips, Doves, Hall & Oates, The Temper Trap, Carla Bruni, Feist, Simon & Garfunkel, Wolfmother, Mumm-Ra, Meaghan Smith, She & Him.

"This is not a love story, this is a story about love"

Tom was a man influenced by English music. Since he's a teenager, he believed that he couldn't be happy until he meets his soul mate. He seemed a normal man with a normal job and a normal life, but everything changed when Summer began to work as a secretary in his office.

Summer seemed a normal woman, but she seemed to cause some kind of people's approach. Some would say it's a "Summer effect". But in a big city such as New York, how could Tom meet Summer? And would she be, after many girls, his soul mate?

Tom was almost sure of it, but as Summer said, true love, destiny and soul mates are fairytales. And with Summer, Tom spent the five hundred best (and worst) days of his life, thus learning many things about the real meaning of love.

This movie has a very good story, but the best in the film is the soundtrack, by The Smiths and a lot of artists. Very funny sometimes (Summer is quite crazy) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt acts well as a man in love (you can see him in "10 Things I Hate About You").

Supersize Me- You'll never see junk food as you used to

Releasing year: 2004
Duration: 1h40'

Gender: Documentary
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Staring: Alexandra Spurlock, Lisa Ganjhu, Daryl Isaacs, Stephen Siegel, Don Gorske.

This film is a documentary with so much impact, that shows us the success of fast food companies and turning the fun of eating two tasty Big Mac per week in a difficult question for your health. The challenge was to eat this food at the richest junk food company in the world-McDonald's-for 30 days. And Morgan Spurlock risked himself doing it. Spurlock's rules were:

1- He should only buy food at McDonald's. Even water.
2- He should eat three times a day. Not more, not less
3- He should eat everything in the menu until the end of the month (he did it in 9 days).
4- He should Super Size only when asked.

Before Febuary Spurlock was about 84Kg and was 1,90m tall. His CM was about 23. His cholesterol and sugar levels was normal and he didn't drink smoke. In the first day, everything got OK, but in the 2nd day Spurlock ate his first Super Size supper. It made him sick

In his second weight, in the 5th day, he was weighting 88,5Kg. He needed only 2500 calories a day but in his McDiet he ate almost 5000 calories a day.

In the third weighting, it got down to 87Kg. Good? I guess he didn't think so. In fact, muscles weight more than fat. Morgan was losing his muscle weight and getting fat.

Some of the major fast food places were visited by him. The fattest city in USA, Houston, is home to many McDonald's. Only in Manhathan, there are more than 80 McDonald's. Experts concluded that obesity and diabetes in children are growing. If someone get diabetic at 15, she loses 23-27 years of life. It is said that 25% of the american people eat fast food daily.

Scary numbers? See those: 1 bagel used in hamburgers is equal to 5 slices of bread. A small McDonald's fries, the original size, has 200 calories, but a Super Size fries has 600. One DoubleGulp soda from 7-11 has 64 ounces, and 48 teaspoons of sugar.


In the 21th day Morgan was feeling too bad. His expert Daryl Isaacs told him to stop that ridiculous thing he was doing, but Morgan felt he could survive nine days more. And he didn't stop. In the final weight-in he has over 90Kg. It took 14 months to lose all the weight he gained. And Spurlock had doubled chances to have a heart attack, very high cholesterol and his damages in the liver and kidney were irreversible.

The documentary was released months after it. McDonald's cancelled the Super Size option and added other sandwiches with more variety. They said that decision had nothing to do with this movie. A lot of people has abandoned fast food in their lifestiles.

Everyone knows fast food has always been a danger to our health. If this is the way you want to go, see the impact it may cause: hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, gall blader disease, asteoarthritis, sleep aphea, respiratory problems, cancer (endometrial, breast, prostate, colon), steatohepatitis, dyslipedemia, insulin resistance, asthma, hyperucemia, reproductive hormone anormalities, POS, impaired fertility and adult onset diabates.

This documentary changes our idea of junk food drastically and became famous all over the world for it's impact and polemic.