Witchcraft, by Cecilia Astolfi

I am a witch.
That makes me feel different. Since that, people look at me in a diffident and curious way. Since that, I look at the other religions, especially Catholicism, in a diffident and curious way.
When I say to someone “I am a witch”, generally the first reaction is: “What?? Did you say witch??” and [...]

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Differences by Tijana

A DIFFERENCE
  
It is not easy to live in an environment that makes you overcome the differences in order to ‘fit in’. However, if we think about it, every environment demands this from us, since wherever we are, there will always be something or someone different than us.
 
To put a theory into a practice, in [...]

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‘The Other’, by Ajla

Every person has some unreasonable fear. It is not important whether it is something that you think about others, nor if it is what others thinks about you, what matters is that it is something that a person is ashamed of and wants to keep it only for him or her. That is the thing [...]

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Different (by Arlinda Rezhdo)

What really frustrates me is that just time can do something to diminish my difference. When we were discussing about this topic in class I didn’t even know what to say, and after 5 minutes I just couldn’t stop anymore. I guess they were just small things but that lead to a singular big difference [...]

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Response to Watching Journal-Borat

Are you suggesting we should make the ‘watching journal’ a regular affair? It seems as if we needed a film like Borat to provoke such passionate, vivid, even livid responses. This journal betrayed just how good you are and how far you can go in mastering the language. You took very good [...]

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Neus’ difference

I have to admit that I have been staring at the white screen while my fingers were sliding over the keyboard for quite a long time. Ruling out the option of “nothing to say”, I’m inclined to think that, actually, there are too many things to say and, what’s more, I even think that they [...]

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“Borat” by Arlinda Rezhdo

Shocking. That’s how I would describe the film.
The film seemed more as a documentary than as a normal movie made in Hollywood, or just a home made recording, so instead of calling it ‘movie’ I’d rather call it ‘documentary’. If I didn’t know that the people in the documentary didn’t know they were recorded I [...]

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

During the vision of the movie, I was a little bit disturbed by it; but at the end I felt really disgusted.
I went out of the class and I smoked. In my mind, all the vulgar pictures; the mix of everything was horrible, unacceptable and leave me completely astonished.
I have to precise that [...]

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Commentary on Borat by Tijana Trkulja

COMMENT ON BORATBY Tijana Trkulja   
Borat is the movie that certainly shook an entire auditorium with it’s, to some point, avant-garde scenes. This movie shows all the absurdities in cultural differences, but also refers to some smaller and taboo topics. Approximately an hour and a half of scenes that shock you, make you laugh, and what [...]

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Commentary on Borat, by Neus Giner

What is clear about Borat is that it is not what we could call a typical film. Aloof from commercial and expected sort of films people are used to watch nowadays, Borat shocks the audience with unpleasant scenes that, as I’ve heard, even made some people going out of the classroom to vomit.
 Personally, I didn’t [...]

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