All Forms of Art

Fractured is a psychological thriller we follow through Ray Monroe's point of view. Ray travels across the country with his wife and daughter. One quick stop in the journey and tragedy happens. From that moment on, we follow his doubts and fears, dragging us into a spiral of madness, disorientation, and paranoia. Predictable The biggest problem I see in the plot is that it is entirely predictable. It’s an interesting story, but, at least by the middle of it, you already realized what happened. It is not an original or surprising story. You can see others of the same sort in many different movies. Just the context is slightly different. Emotionless I like emotion. I want to watch a movie that makes me feel something. This was not the case. Sam Worthington  is fairly convincing in his role, but something is missing in the film. I felt some lack of emotional connection. In a story like this, you expect to suffer with the character. You feel his anger...

The available time to read is, unfortunately, very less than I would like to. Yet, I try to read every day, even if I can only read a single page at a time. This time, I chose something in my first language, written by a renowned author.   Fancy writing, poor content I’m not the biggest fan of Portuguese literature. You may find it odd. It would be expected that we would quickly identify with our country, culture, and language. Unfortunately, what I see in Portuguese literature, most of the time, it’s a whole lot of beautiful words and fancy sentences, with no significant ability to make us dream.  Beautifully arranged sentences and highly educated words seem more important than the story itself. It lacks the fantastic ability to drive us to different worlds, of making us live what we are reading, or feel what the characters are feeling. Despite that, I try to keep updated with what’s new or considered a ‘must to read.’ I must say, however, and wi...