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The poor image Colombia's national cinema "fault?
originally published in the website of the Bogota daily El Espectador ( www.elespectador.com ), under "virtual columinsta"

The offensive distortion that director Doug Liman, includes in her film Mr. & Mrs. Smith , introducing Bogota bustling metropolis of eight million inhabitants, as a warm Mexican poky old town riddled with the rigors of war prompted a wave of indignation justified in our country with public denials, protests of the District Administration, and finally Departure of movie theaters, including, but most of those who objected to the tape (starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) repeatedly forgot that the film industry trend of global shape in numerous productions an abominable Colombia (and nonexistent) is the main guilty to the creators of cinema!

For the sample, the film Rosario Tijeras (directed by Mexican Emilio Maillé on the original novel of the writer Jorge Franco Ramos Antioquia) about to be released ... even without having seen it, and even reputable journalists say that Jorge Franco "without falling into the social criticism or roll sociological wrote a song for the emancipation of women under foreign audiences ...", just get another drink from the same stinking cliche: Colombia is a nation of prostitutes, drug dealers and gunmen foul-mouthed ...

see us as we make ourselves, with the images that we export (and then get angry when we return them Mr. & Mrs. Smith and company), because each new work inspired by our appeals to the eternal reality kitsch skit, a dialogues between people miserable miserable ... the mules, to the traffickers, the paramilitaries, the guerrillas ... The technical aspects are flawless, the performances superb and magnificent photography. So what? Indeed, in terms of artistic talent is concerned, many projects resist any objection and deserve generous adjectives.

And what, if disturbing is the background, the rancid recipe "reflect reality" and display the most brutal of the national context, enhanced with cash to confirm stereotypes and popularized in the international arena by exiled rebels, journalists irresponsible and 'intellectuals' questionable (some extended to soap operas and the winning works in the local literary events). So, why be surprised if in Europe or the United States Doug Liman on duty here assume an inept military valor is raging against guerrillas and forsake the poor of the paramilitary outrages? Why

scandalized without our own producers and actors, almost obscene, ridicule the misfortunes of his countrymen to win international awards for the old trick of begging passers-by exposing his wounds and burns for charity (only the homeless and needy have sores authentic own, not others, and also studied acting did not do, or live a dream life, or even talk to the impostada spoken of Diego Cadavid, Manolo Cardona, Juan Carlos Vargas, Flora Martínez and how beautiful rich or famous celebrity Creole compatriots cashed unfortunate caricature). All host Colombian films Foreign distilled pessimism insistent sister "Rodrigo D no future," "The rose seller," The Lady of the Assassins "," the first night, "" Losing is a question of method "and many other local productions . Where is the counterpart optimistic? When will we see on the big screen a screamer, a Patasola, a typical comedy, a flying saucer at least a simple sprite in place of the monotonous habit of discovering with each release that the fire burns. Such a huge build our champions utopia movies to send to international markets imaginary bandits and prostitutes as a craft?

Moreover, fortunately his performance in "Maria Full of Grace" (or drug?) Was insufficient for the Academy Award Oscar for Catalina Sandino, and not because the actress lacks merit, but because the award have contributed to increasing the pornographic glee with the ordinariness and the suffering of our homeless. Is that all our women are whores? Are all our young drug addicts? By chance, we were all Colombians engendered in violation involved and among Mines quiebrepatas? When you emerge fantasy, alternate worlds, historical episodes! Hopefully

who make movies in Colombia warn how healthy it would make films about little-known elements abroad about our country, and surprised critics highlighting the best of the big cities we have raised, or the millions of Colombians who speak without saying 'Pirobase' o ' Gonorrhea 'every half sentence, or the countless poor families living on dignity. Until that happens, continue that great paradox according to which the productions have won awards at international festivals, while at the same delight that discourage foreign public of tourism between our borders.

Written in July 28, 2005

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The beneficiaries of enmity
originally published in "virtual columnist" the Bogota daily El Espectador ( www.elespectador.com )

of the complete explanatory ray traced in qualified columnists El Espectador (week 10 to 16 June 2005) on the London attacks, lucid approach excels the Pulitzer Prize 2002, Thomas Friedman (noting that the Muslim religious authorities still do not condemn bin Laden, and said that the shock will continue until the Muslim people and their spiritual leaders decide to condemn and isolate the extremists who stay inside), and likewise appears fragmentary argumentation and political sociologist Eugenio Gómez Martínez when point-after record that "There is no justification" for the facts, that according to the jihadist fanatics "Spain was cruel and overwhelming against the Islamists in time of the Catholic Monarchs" ... In return we should mention the nearly eight centuries of Islamic invasion from English soil after 711, where the Berbers led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad crossed Gibraltar to subdue the Iberian Peninsula and defeated the Visigoth king Rodrigo, and 1492 when Boabdil surrendered in Granada ... So the penalties of partial exposures, like those of many Western intellectuals and historians hostile to George W. Bush and U.S. world dominance, to denounce the abuse that American invasion of Iraqi soil defined it as an affront to the venerable Muslim culture there seated (without referring to, in 641, the ancestors of those same venerable Muslims had in turn Mesopotamia attacked where today is Iraq and destroyed the Persian Sassanid empire province then flourished there) ... All because the fashion is to pose as anti-imperialist sins found only in the historical role of the Catholic Church and describe the brutal excesses of the Crusades started in 1095-forgetting, though, that 363 years before these episodes, the army of Charles Martel stopped at Poitiers the Islamic assault on Europe ("the" crescent "?)-, Who says you have been other circumstances, a possible Muslim superpower would be better arbiter of planetary destiny of what is now the United States? Anyway

historical find excuses for blaming one side or the other absurdity is unfortunate, especially when what matters is not which threw the first stones, but how to get both continue to refrain from throwing, there is much in common between the West and Islam to allow the imposition of apartheid vision of fierce radical minorities. As noted last year the British journalist Jason Burke, Al Qaeda is more an ideology than an organization (according to him, the Arabic word 'Qaeda', which translates as "home base" as a "method" or "precept" understood by suicide bombers in this sense) ... The big threat is that "al-Qaedaism" spread throughout the world as criminal factions generating effect step-by-one action and reaction "to" al-Qaedaism "Western counterpart. Therefore, the authorities would do well to seek out potential beneficiaries world de la enemistad entre musulmanes y cristianos, perversos interesados, a uno y otro lado del espectro religioso y cultural, en fomentar la discordia para acrecentar su poder o enriquecerse con ello (ayatollahs, fabricantes de armas, incluso vendedores de millonarias pólizas de seguros... la lista de sospechosos es considerable). Esos nefastos, y aún anónimos incitadores, serían la versión global de aquellos bullangueros que en los colegios gritan “dele, dele, dele” al primer conato de riña entre compañeros animando a los eventuales contendores a agredirse, quienquiera que sean y sin saber siquiera el motivo del altercado.

Los alcances del asunto escalofrían, bastaría una explosión durante mass pilgrimage to Mecca, or in a crowded papal blessing in St. Peter's Square in Rome (especially if people got behind it sectarian interests to convince the believers of the faith that the perpetrators violated embody the sense of the faithful the other) to open wounds that would take millennia to heal.