My favorite movie

   It`s really difficult to say an specifc movie that could be my favorite one. Maybe I could say four or five and one of them could be the best, but if I have to refer just one film in this moment, I choose ''Apocalypse Now'' directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1979.

   ''Apocalypse Now'' is a war film, inspirated on the novel Heart of Darkness of the polish writer Joseph Conrad. The main characters of the movie are the captain Benjamin L. Willard performed by Martin Sheen, and the colonel Walter E. Kurtz performed by Marlon Brando. It's located in the times of the Vietnam War. Here, the captain Willard of the U.S. Army is designated to a top-secret mission, where he had to find the colonel Kurtz and kill him, because, according to the army's information, he went insane and it's commanding his own troops in the neutral Cambodia.

    I think the film in general had a lot of great parts, but there are two that are particulary remarkable. One is a famous scene where the U.S. Army bombards the Vietcong fields with the Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries music. And the other is when Willard finds the colonel Kurtz and they talk, with a great use of the lights on the face of Marlon Brando.

   Since I saw ''Apocalypse Now'' I think that this is one of my favorite movies, because it had a lot of elements that make more complex and fascinating the plot of the whole story, like the psychological aspects of the main characters, the use of the music, and historical context of the film. So, in general, I couldn't say something that I would like to change of the movie, because every part, dialogue, character and scene are perfectly done. 

A country I would like to visit

   A country I would like to go it's Germany. I feel in general a constant interest in the history and the culture of this country. I also found very fascinating the German language and the use of the language in the literature of his country.

   A lot of my favorite artists are related with the German culture and what it´s around the country. For example musicians like Bach or Haendel, or writers like Georg Trakl or Rilke and Kafka (they two are not Germans, but they use the German language and are imbued with his culture). Also Germany has an important tradition of thinkers in the philosophy and the social sciences, like Heidegger, Marx or Weber. 

   I really don't know what specifically I would like to do in Germany, but I think that maybe I try to continue my studies in sociology, or maybe something related with German literature or philosophy. I really just would be happy walking through the streets and see the monuments and cathedrals. So, if I could study or work there I would like to do it, but, at the time that German language it´s fascinating, it's also really difficult, so I don't think that I could live for a long period of time in the country.

    

About myself

           Hi everyone. My name is Diego Alvarez. I was born in Santiago (Chile) in 1995 and I have nineteen years old.  I live with my parents and my two sisters in our house in Puente Alto

I’m a student of sociology in the University of Chile and I’m in my first year at the university.  The last year I was in the in the San Viator School of Macul.

My principal hobbies are related with things like music, painting, literature and the arts in general.  I also feel interest for matters of the philosophy and the social sciences and that it’s the principal reason of why decided to study sociology.

In general I think that my knowledge of the English language it’s very limited. I can understand basic things in a conversation and have the general idea of a text in English, but I can’t speak in fluent English, or produce a more complex or developed text in this language. So I hope I will develop my skills in English in this class and can understand better the language.  

Semester 2. Level 4