“The purple rose of Cairo” is a romantic drama by the director Woody Allen, claims the film reviewer Walter Helwich. The film stars Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Dianne West. The plot is set back in 1930 in New Jersey at the time of the economic crisis known as “the Great Depression”.
Cecilia is married to a loyal but unsubtle Monk, and she works as a waitress in a provincial American pub. In the time of the economic crisis, Cecilia, as well as all other people are living monotonous life. Therefore, she decides to find consolation in the cinema and Hollywood melodrama, and the “dream factory” at the time. But what if Cecilia’s favorite movie character enters the real world just to talk with her? One day, during the movie, a miracle happens. Cecilia watches the same film with Tom Baxter, and then, her favorite star comes down from the screen just to take Cecilia with him. Furthermore, the projections must stop; both the viewers and film producers are furious. But Cecilia and Tom on the other hand, are experiencing true romance.
As we all know, Woody Allen is an extraordinary writer, and “The Purple Rose of Cairo” is no exception. Actually, Allen wants to emphasize the feelings you have every time you watch a movie. You are jumping from the cruel real world into some safe corner that will allow you for at least an hour and a half to escape from reality. There, you will need no money, you’re in love, happy and beautiful. Moreover, Allen is trying to point out the boundary between the reality and film in an extremely original way. He also uses those elements for “Midnight in Paris”, where the main character is also sick with his tedious living, so, he becomes part of Paris every night at midnight. All in all, this is a real masterpiece.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Black lungs of a long time smoker – a clever way to scare and mislead the public
In the midst of anti-smoking campaigns, many smokers have given up tobacco, mainly because of the terrible pictures of black lungs, claims Walter Helwich according to some recent data. On the pictures, there are black lungs of long time smokers, who allegedly deceased because of tobacco. We succeeded to reveal numerous lies regarding tobacco, particularly its effect on the mind and body, but now – it’s time to deal with the fake propaganda that someone is serving to us.
After a well-prepared campaign against the tobacco, which has even initiated the WNTD (World No Tobacco Day) or global anti-smoking day, which is “celebrated” on the 31st of May, we start to wonder who is behind this kind of activities? Furthermore, if you take a look at Wiki’s explanation on WNTD, you’ll see that the leader of this project is WHO (i.e. World Health Organization), which has launched an offensive campaign against tobacco in 1987. In the same year, WHO has created a resolution for the UN – WHA40.38 in order to create a non-smoker world. Soon, this initiative started to gain the support of the scientific community. Moreover, the organization succeeded this thanks to the numerous cases, where they showed how toxic and carcinogenic the tobacco is, so the public started to fear tobacco. Furthermore, the WHO conducted an interdisciplinary study that was supposed to show how the passive smoking can also have fatal consequences. But the WHO could not manage to get factual evidences that will prove the danger of tobacco, so they came up with a new plan. Actually, they were trying to demonstrate that tobacco contains many hazardous components that are killing us, but in fact these 600 components were approved by the FDA.
The campaign against smoking reached its peak in 1998, when the tobacco manufacturers were forced to print warnings like “Smoking Kills” or “Smoking causes impotence” on the pack of cigarettes. Moreover, since 2000, many countries engaged into anti-commercial campaigns against tobacco, and started to put horrible pictures, which supposed to show the detrimental effects of tobacco.
After a well-prepared campaign against the tobacco, which has even initiated the WNTD (World No Tobacco Day) or global anti-smoking day, which is “celebrated” on the 31st of May, we start to wonder who is behind this kind of activities? Furthermore, if you take a look at Wiki’s explanation on WNTD, you’ll see that the leader of this project is WHO (i.e. World Health Organization), which has launched an offensive campaign against tobacco in 1987. In the same year, WHO has created a resolution for the UN – WHA40.38 in order to create a non-smoker world. Soon, this initiative started to gain the support of the scientific community. Moreover, the organization succeeded this thanks to the numerous cases, where they showed how toxic and carcinogenic the tobacco is, so the public started to fear tobacco. Furthermore, the WHO conducted an interdisciplinary study that was supposed to show how the passive smoking can also have fatal consequences. But the WHO could not manage to get factual evidences that will prove the danger of tobacco, so they came up with a new plan. Actually, they were trying to demonstrate that tobacco contains many hazardous components that are killing us, but in fact these 600 components were approved by the FDA.
The campaign against smoking reached its peak in 1998, when the tobacco manufacturers were forced to print warnings like “Smoking Kills” or “Smoking causes impotence” on the pack of cigarettes. Moreover, since 2000, many countries engaged into anti-commercial campaigns against tobacco, and started to put horrible pictures, which supposed to show the detrimental effects of tobacco.
U.K. has the greatest number of banker millionaires in the E.U.
In 2011, the number of banker millionaires in Britain was far greater than in any other E.U. country, says Walter Helwich according to some recent research by Colorado University. When the European Banking Agency (EBA) announced the data on salaries of bankers, they concluded that 2436 bankers in the U.K. earned at least million, or even more in 2011. Furthermore, the report said that 1,809 of them are working in the banking investment sector, 85 in the retail banking sector, 182 deal with management assets, and 360 in other banking sectors. EBA collects some data in order to draft legislation for limiting the bank bonuses, which will start from 2014.
On the other hand, Britain was opposing to the proposal that the bonuses do not surpass the annual salary, but they were beaten by the other European countries. These countries are convinced that they will not risk with getting big bonuses, such as the period before the outbreak of the financial crisis.
EBA proposes that the bankers’ salary should not be more than 500 thousand euros a year. They also said that only 170 bankers in Germany earned more than one million euros, 162 in France, 125 in Spain, 96 in Italy and 36 in the Netherlands.
The investors cautious after the rise in S & P and Dow Jones indexes
On Monday, the S & P 500 and Dow Jones index reached the highest level in history on Wall Street. The investors acted with precaution, because of a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Dow Jones rose up 19 points, or 0.13 percent (to 15,484 points), while the S & P 500 went up 0.14 percent to 1,682 points and the Nasdaq Index rose up to 0.21 percent or 3,607 points. Moreover, this is the highest level since September 2000. The rise of the S & P 500 index eighth day in a row is due to the growth of the stock prices of Citigroup up to 2 percent.
On the other hand, Britain was opposing to the proposal that the bonuses do not surpass the annual salary, but they were beaten by the other European countries. These countries are convinced that they will not risk with getting big bonuses, such as the period before the outbreak of the financial crisis.
EBA proposes that the bankers’ salary should not be more than 500 thousand euros a year. They also said that only 170 bankers in Germany earned more than one million euros, 162 in France, 125 in Spain, 96 in Italy and 36 in the Netherlands.
The investors cautious after the rise in S & P and Dow Jones indexes
On Monday, the S & P 500 and Dow Jones index reached the highest level in history on Wall Street. The investors acted with precaution, because of a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Dow Jones rose up 19 points, or 0.13 percent (to 15,484 points), while the S & P 500 went up 0.14 percent to 1,682 points and the Nasdaq Index rose up to 0.21 percent or 3,607 points. Moreover, this is the highest level since September 2000. The rise of the S & P 500 index eighth day in a row is due to the growth of the stock prices of Citigroup up to 2 percent.
Monday, July 8, 2013
The Secret in Their Eyes
“The Secret in Their Eyes” is an Argentinean crime drama, says Walter Helwich on his Vimeo profile. This is film won the Oscar for best foreign film in 2010. The film stars Ricardo Darin, Pablo Rago and Soledad Villamil.
Benjamín Esposito is the main protagonist. He has spent all his life working in the court. After retirement, he decided to write a novel based on a real crime – a rape and murder of a beautiful young woman in 1974. Moreover, he was involved in the investigation of this case himself. Those were turbulent days in Argentina, and this case will mark Espósito’s life forever. But still, while he writes the novel, the past revives in front of him. He revives the memories of a crime that was never solved. Moreover, he included some events from 1970 to 2000, but he succeeded to make a balance between the present and past. In fact, this crime story develops into a delicate romance that had not chance to end up in marriage (which is considered to be the perfect ending for a deep love between two individuals). The relationship between the boss Irene Hastings and her assistant, Benjamin begins professionally, because in the world of criminal, there is simply no room for anything else. Suddenly, these two mature people start to have delicate feelings for each other, but they are trying to keep in secret their privacy from their colleagues and senior officers in the judicial-bureaucratic system. Therefore, love is in sight, but the story, will have a turnover. Furthermore, they start to reveal a notorious criminal, Ricardo Morales, who lost his beloved wife Liliane Colot. This evil character will actually encourage the main character to make the right choices both professional and personal.
All in all, this is a real masterpiece. This strong, deeply emotional film is based on the novel “La pregunta de sus ojos”, which was written by Eduardo Sacher. The scenarist and director of the film was Juan José Campanella, famous for its work in some popular American TV series, like “Law & Order”, “House MD”. Find out more about Walter Helwich.
Benjamín Esposito is the main protagonist. He has spent all his life working in the court. After retirement, he decided to write a novel based on a real crime – a rape and murder of a beautiful young woman in 1974. Moreover, he was involved in the investigation of this case himself. Those were turbulent days in Argentina, and this case will mark Espósito’s life forever. But still, while he writes the novel, the past revives in front of him. He revives the memories of a crime that was never solved. Moreover, he included some events from 1970 to 2000, but he succeeded to make a balance between the present and past. In fact, this crime story develops into a delicate romance that had not chance to end up in marriage (which is considered to be the perfect ending for a deep love between two individuals). The relationship between the boss Irene Hastings and her assistant, Benjamin begins professionally, because in the world of criminal, there is simply no room for anything else. Suddenly, these two mature people start to have delicate feelings for each other, but they are trying to keep in secret their privacy from their colleagues and senior officers in the judicial-bureaucratic system. Therefore, love is in sight, but the story, will have a turnover. Furthermore, they start to reveal a notorious criminal, Ricardo Morales, who lost his beloved wife Liliane Colot. This evil character will actually encourage the main character to make the right choices both professional and personal.
All in all, this is a real masterpiece. This strong, deeply emotional film is based on the novel “La pregunta de sus ojos”, which was written by Eduardo Sacher. The scenarist and director of the film was Juan José Campanella, famous for its work in some popular American TV series, like “Law & Order”, “House MD”. Find out more about Walter Helwich.
Commercials broadcast straight into passengers" head!
According to Walter Helwich, the passengers often tend to lay their head on the window to rest or nap, when they are travelling with public transport. But soon, they will be disturbed with advertisements or some other information broadcast directly into their head. Especially, the new technology will allow the advertisements and other information to be transmitted directly into the head of train passengers, when they lean their head on the window. The Telegraph says that the video clip for the campaign “the speaking window” was published by the media company Sky Deutschland in cooperation with the agency BBDO Germany. And their message was: “Tired travelers often lean their leaning on the window. And suddenly, a voice in their heads starts to speak. But no one else can hear this message”.
This broadcast will consist of special technology, applied only in hearing aids, earphones and Google Glass headphones, which transfer the sound to the inner ear via vibrations through the skull. The sound will be emitted by a transmitter, which will be attached to the windows. The BBDO’s spokesman stated that they will start as soon as they get authorization from their customer – Sky Deutschland. Furthermore, the device has already been tested on the public transport in Munich and Aachen.
But on the other side, Prison Planet states that no company did not take in consideration the possibility that the weary travelers just want to sleep, leaning their head on the window. But also, there are some comments that this technology is much criticized. Some people say they will have to for their heads, and others that, there will be soon lots of broken windows.
What’s next?
This is an obvious example of ruling of psychopaths, where individuals with psychological disorders occupy important positions in our society and politics; therefore, they are trying to rule the nation. These people are using all possible means to reach their goal, so among others; they developed a special marketing branch called neuromarketing that will help advertisers to take a peek into the human’s mind. And we mean literally! Click here to find out more.
This broadcast will consist of special technology, applied only in hearing aids, earphones and Google Glass headphones, which transfer the sound to the inner ear via vibrations through the skull. The sound will be emitted by a transmitter, which will be attached to the windows. The BBDO’s spokesman stated that they will start as soon as they get authorization from their customer – Sky Deutschland. Furthermore, the device has already been tested on the public transport in Munich and Aachen.
But on the other side, Prison Planet states that no company did not take in consideration the possibility that the weary travelers just want to sleep, leaning their head on the window. But also, there are some comments that this technology is much criticized. Some people say they will have to for their heads, and others that, there will be soon lots of broken windows.
What’s next?
This is an obvious example of ruling of psychopaths, where individuals with psychological disorders occupy important positions in our society and politics; therefore, they are trying to rule the nation. These people are using all possible means to reach their goal, so among others; they developed a special marketing branch called neuromarketing that will help advertisers to take a peek into the human’s mind. And we mean literally! Click here to find out more.
Hollande and Merkel angry: Spying is not acceptable!
According to Walter Helwich, the leaders of Western European countries criticized the United States, after U.S. announcement that their authorities are spying the embassies of Western European countries.
The French President François Hollande said that spying has to stop. In addition, the spokesman of Chancellor’s stated that it is “unacceptable” to spy your friends. They also warned that the scandal could seriously jeopardize the negotiations on establishing a free trade zone between the U.S. and the E.U., which is scheduled for July 8, in Washington.
The Chancellor Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said that Germany would like to reach an agreement about free trade, but they demand mutual trust in order to come up with a solution.”
Furthermore, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had earlier stated that “these spying activities are conducted in order to preserve national security, but they are not uncommon at all, and Kerry also added that he does not want to comment much for now, until he gets all the necessary information. “Some of the countries use different methods to protect their national interests in the international relations, despite the fact that I do not have any specific information,” added Kerry.
The information about spying was recently leaked by Edward Snowden. Some files reached to the German Der Spiegel, and claim that 38 embassies and representatives are “the next target”. The list includes French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as embassies of other U.S. allies, including Japan.
Merkel will host the next European Meeting
The fight against young unemployed people will be the main topic of the new European meeting. On Wednesday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the host of the meeting in Berlin. Several European dignitaries, including the French President Francois Hollande, will discuss to take some “concrete action” and “exchange practices”, stated the Chancellor’s spokesman.
“We will not discuss about money, but methods, which can help to fight against unemployment that is affecting the south of Europe”, warned Angela Merkel. The European leaders have already agreed to solve the unemployment with six billion euros. Click here to find out more.
The French President François Hollande said that spying has to stop. In addition, the spokesman of Chancellor’s stated that it is “unacceptable” to spy your friends. They also warned that the scandal could seriously jeopardize the negotiations on establishing a free trade zone between the U.S. and the E.U., which is scheduled for July 8, in Washington.
The Chancellor Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said that Germany would like to reach an agreement about free trade, but they demand mutual trust in order to come up with a solution.”
Furthermore, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had earlier stated that “these spying activities are conducted in order to preserve national security, but they are not uncommon at all, and Kerry also added that he does not want to comment much for now, until he gets all the necessary information. “Some of the countries use different methods to protect their national interests in the international relations, despite the fact that I do not have any specific information,” added Kerry.
The information about spying was recently leaked by Edward Snowden. Some files reached to the German Der Spiegel, and claim that 38 embassies and representatives are “the next target”. The list includes French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as embassies of other U.S. allies, including Japan.
Merkel will host the next European Meeting
The fight against young unemployed people will be the main topic of the new European meeting. On Wednesday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the host of the meeting in Berlin. Several European dignitaries, including the French President Francois Hollande, will discuss to take some “concrete action” and “exchange practices”, stated the Chancellor’s spokesman.
“We will not discuss about money, but methods, which can help to fight against unemployment that is affecting the south of Europe”, warned Angela Merkel. The European leaders have already agreed to solve the unemployment with six billion euros. Click here to find out more.
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