Monday 8 September 2014

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

American Horror Story is a horror TV series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. It's an anthologic series. Each season has different plots, characters, settings ...

It is one of my favourite series. I'll talk a little about each season:

Season 1: Murder House 
The first season is based on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben Hayden an affair with one of his students. The family moves into a mansion, unaware that the house is haunted. Ben and Vivien try to rekindle their relationship as Violet, suffering from depression, finds comfort with Tate, one of Ben's new patients. Her neighbor Constance, and a stranger named Larry Harvey, affecting the lives of the Harmon frequently. The life of Harmon becomes more complicated when Hayden comes to Los Angeles in an attempt to win the love of Ben.


Season 2: Asylum
The second season takes place in Briarcliff Manor, an asylum for the criminally insane. There is sent Kit Walker, a young man who worked at a gas station, accused of killing his African American wife Alma Walker. The marriage was kept hidden to avoid social impact, as it was illegal in several states and racial discrimination was very violent. Kit is brought to the asylum being confused with the serial murderer "Bloody Face", who skinned his victims (always women) and cut off their heads. But really, Alma was abducted by aliens with her husband, only the latter returning to Earth
. No one believes the story of Kit. Within the asylum, he will encounter terrifying characters like Dr. Arthur Arden and Sister Jude. Strange events take place in Briarcliff, where reign horror, injustice, dementia, inhuman treatment and pain.


Season 3: Coven
It's been over 300 years since the turbulent days of the Salem witch trials. Those witches who escaped are now endangered. They are producing mysterious attacks and therefore decide to send younger to a special school in New Orleans where they can learn to protect themselves. One is Zoe, reaching the place hiding a terrible secret. Furthermore, alarmed by the recent attacks, Fiona, the long absent supreme witch, decides to return to the site to protect theirs ... and no one stand in his way.
Main topics are witches, witch hunt, incest, minorities, slavery, mothers and daughters, and sorcery against voodoo.


Season 4: Freak Show
The fourth season (not yet released) will be set in Jupiter, Florida in 1952. It will be centered around one of the few remaining freak shows at the time, as its members do anything to keep the business alive. The season will focus on the conflict between the freaks and the "evil forces" who do not understand them. The season will also feature a "clown killer".


This summer...

This summer I went to New York.
I was in a hotel named "Sheraton" between Times Square and Central Park in Manhattan.

The first day i went in a bus to see Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens, and after i went to the Brooklyn Bridge. At the night i went to Times Square.

At the next day in the morning we went to the Rockerfeller Center and we went up to the building Top of the Rock. At midday we went to the American Museum of Natural History, and after we took a walk around central park. In the afternoon we went on a boat that went around manhattan, and incidentally saw the Statue of Liberty.

The third day I went to see the 9/11 memorial and its museum. At night we went up to Empire State Building, and when we went down we went in limousine to the hotel.

At the next day i went to The New York Public Library and to de Grand Central Terminal. After we went to the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). In the afternoon we went to see the Broadway musical: "The Lion King"

At the next day we went to MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), and when we left we walked down Fifth Avenue. In the afternoon we went to the Lincoln Center.

The last day we went for a walk through Central Park and then we went to the airport to return to Spain.






Monday 1 September 2014

LUCY

This summer I went to the cinema to see Lucy. Lucy is a 2014 French science fiction action film directed by Luc Besson.

Plot:

Lucy is a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan. She is tricked into working as a drug mule by her new boyfriend, whose employer is a Korean mob boss and drug lord named Mr. Jang. Lucy delivers a briefcase to Mr. Jang containing a highly valuable drug. She is captured and a bag of the drug is sewn into her abdomen. While Lucy is in captivity, one of her captors kicks her in the stomach, breaking the bag, releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly powerful and enhanced physical and mental capabilities. She kills off her captors and escapes.

Lucy goes to the hospital  to remove the bag of drugs from her abdomen.

At her apartment, Lucy begins researching her condition and contacts a well-known scientist and doctor, Professor Samuel Norman, whose research may be the key to saving her. Her powers continue to grow, leaving her able to telepathically incapacitate armed police and members from the Korean drug gang. Lucy meets Professor Norman, with whom she agrees to share everything she now knows, after he points out that the main point of life is to pass on knowledge.


In the professor's lab, Lucy discusses the nature of time and life and how people's humanity distorts their perceptions. After being injected with the contents of all three remaining bags of drug her body begins to metamorphose into a black substance, spreading over computers and other objects in the lab. Lucy reaches 100% of her cerebral capacity and disappears within the space time continuum, where she explains that everything is connected and existence is only proven through time. Del Rio asks Professor Norman where Lucy is, immediately after which, Del Rio's cell phone sounds and he sees a text message: "I AM EVERYWHERE." With an overhead shot, Lucy's voice is heard stating, "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what you can do with it."



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