måndag 23 mars 2009

Blog assignment #4: The state of the planet

We humans work in a specific way, we are all curious and want to develop things. From the first energy source we used, witch is the fire, have we constantly widened our ways to gather energy. With the industrialisation a new revolutionary device was introduced, it was the combustion engine. Now 150 years later many scientists think that this machine will ruin the world. The reason is that the exhaust gas includes CO2 witch damages the ozone layer. Right now with our knowledge of environmental causes there are a lot of researches to find a remedy for the ozone layer. We can predict what’s going too happened with the planet if we don’t make some changes in our energy consumption. We will have a much warmer climate witch will lead up to a melting of the polar ices and a higher water level witch will be hazardous for many peoples. This has intimidating a lot of peoples.


/Anton

söndag 15 mars 2009

Blog Assignment #3: Interview with the Vampire

Since the last half year I’ve been almost obsessed with Vampires. It all started with the TV-show True Blood, which by the way the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard makes a brilliant take as a Norse vampire. I truly recommend this show. Next up was the Swedish success movie “let the right one in” and after that the teenager movie “Twilight”.
I have never liked the movies about Blade or the shows about Buffy. I think it is because they shows vampire from a bad angle instead of showing them in a more poetic way.

However, after this I was forced to see this Vampire movie again, which is from the year 1994. Really major actors play in this movie, actors like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas and a very young Kirsten Dunst.
The film is based on the novel “Interview with the vampire” by Anne Rice. It opens in present time with a reporter talking with a Vampire called Luis. Through the movie we can hear Luis (Brad Pitt) talk about his life as a vampire, from when he first turned in to a vampire and all his adventures until present. What makes Luis special is that he still have kept some of his humanity after he changed. We can also follow Claudia who’s transformed into a vampire as a child.The film is about beauty, wealth, passion and desire, but even more about the endless search for satisfaction.

//A