The role of drama is to transport the reader to another world 

A review about “The Dark Knight” 

By Cristiano Lima – English teacher, translator and theologian 

“The Dark Knight” is a movie with an intensively dramatic story about a rich playboy who wears a cape and a mask of a bat just to fight against criminals in the Gotham city. This movie is the continuation of the British director Christopher Nolan’s reinvention of the Batman story and it takes the story up to his primal confrontation with the Joker – the main, devilish and the cleverest villain in this movie. Christian Bale plays the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes and Heath Ledger plays the role of the Joker.Bruce Wayne is Batman – a multimillionaire and the main honor of the Wayne Enterprise Companies. As Batman, he tries to defeat the worst criminals of Gotham city. The Joker is the worst Batman’s nemesis and he is the worst and terrifying wrongdoer in the plot. All the characters are living in the city of Gotham. It is a cosmopolitan city that has been destroyed by corruption because of its political and financial system.The scenario of the movie is bleak, rainy and with the scenes happening, mainly, at night.People who watch films, which contain drama and adventures, will enjoy this film because this kind of production can give us a sensation that all the ordinary people can be a kind of hero trying to help people next to them. As Batman said in one of the most epic scenes of the movie: you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.From my point of view, I prefer to die as a hero!

The Importance of Distinct Characters in Movies

A review about the movie "The Lord of the Rings"

By Cristiano Lima – English teacher, translator and theologian

“The Lord of the rings: the return of the king” is a movie based on the intensively touching book from the author J. R. R. Tolkien – the book is a classic fantasy novel, which revolves around a magical, seductive ring with dark powers. The book is a masterpiece of the English Literature.J. R. R. Tolkien’s timeless adventure follows the exploits of two friends – the two feisty young hobbits Frodo and Sam and their journey to Mordor in the company of the wicked and duplicitous Gollun to destroy the magical and powerful ring. “Return of the king” dispatches its characters to their destinies with a grand and eloquent confidence. Notwithstanding the marvelous creativity linked to the movie, the story is just a little too silly to carry the emotional weight of a masterpiece. The movie contains epic actions sequences of awe-inspiring scope (including the massive of troops for the final battle), and the two most inimitable special-effects creations are Gollun, who seems as real as anyone else on the screen, and a monstrous spider named Shelob.The hobbit Frodo is the main character and this hobbit has to destroy the ring that reveals a moral exposition of good and evil. This character named Frodo suffers a lot when in the main scene, he fights with the Gollun and while they are fighting, the Gollun bites the Frodo’s finger where the evil ring was and the Frodo’s finger is ripped out while the Gollun steals the ring. In this marvelous and dramatic scene, the Gollun puts the ring on his own finger while he is falling in the abyss where the ring is destroyed by the fire from the mountain and where the decision to totally destroy the evil ring is taken into consideration.
The final battle is kind of magnificent. We see men and even an army of the dead join the battle against Orcs, flying dragons, and vast lumbering elephantine creatures that serve as moving platforms for machines of war. Sauron is the biggest enemy in the Middle Earth and this enemy wants to find the evil ring just to dominate all the existence but the ring is in the Frodo’s hands.
In addition, the plot of this movie reveals the eternal fight between good and evil while the mission of the small hobbit is just to destroy the evil ring but at the same time Frodo is attracted by it and sometimes Frodo tries to defend this ring against different kinds of enemies.
In conclusion, Frodo, being the main character, has a long journey just to destroy the ring. Also, Frodo has matured and grown in his long journey. Summing up, this movie is the voice of a magical imagination, which adults insist on forgetting.