Welcome to the first edition of Adriatic Times this year. We are more than happy to once again come back with our beloved newspaper.
Even though it seems like it’s been ages, the new academic year began only 2 months ago, most certainly bringing many changes. Exactly, changes. We have to admit that this period welcomed us with many adjustments. New Rettore, new teachers, and for secondi, new roles and responsibilities. For primi, a completely new reality, and let’s not forget about all the innovations happening in mensa.
If there here are so many changes around us not only in the Duino bubble but also outside of it, then why not also incorporate them into Adriatic Times? Well that is exactly what we did so enjoy all the content centred around changes used in many contexts, shapes, and sizes.
Have fun and embrace the changes around you, The Editorial Team of Adriatic Times
Do you feel as though you have to change depending on where you are? For example, going from teaching to being the Rettore or simply walking around Duino.
I love teaching, I have always loved it The job would definitely be harder without it, the students are amazing and whenever I’m in the classroom no one can bother me* Essentially, my personality remains the same In academia we call it the element of ‘impression management’, which helps me adapt to any context without changing myself. I have always had two sides to myself: the more ‘heavy and intense side’, which comes out when I for example talk about philosophy, economics, or politics; and the side which takes things more lightly and jokes around more, and I have learned how to balance them and simply be myself
Do we do things in the most optimal way? I’m not only talking about money, but also time and other resources Are we prioritizing quality over quantity? How do we define quality? I believe sustainability of action is incredibly important, for instance, what are the implications of having to do x, y, and z - are we prepared for certain sacrifices? It is not one person who has the solution, but doing things knowingly is fundamental, and at the moment I don’t think we have the ‘macro’ of things, but I think we can do it!
Last and very important question: if you want to have some cereal with milk, what goes first?
Ah, cereal first and then milk!
Additional comments:
Important question now: imagine you go for lunch to mensa on a Sunday and you take patatine. Would you add anything to them? If so, on the side or over the patatine?
I actually hate ketchup, so I would definitely not add it to them. If I had to, I would have them with mayonnaise: Belgian style patatine, but in reality I would rather have them with only salt and pepper And for the last part of the question, on the side
Now perhaps the most expected question: are there any changes you would like to make in the College?
I want to help people adopt a more strategic way of thinking and sustainable way of acting Sustainability of action is needed to think through goals: what do you need to achieve it?
We are in this together! The capacity of the students, not the potential but the expertise, is amazing It will be difficult to find something like this, but there is no doubt that if anyone can find solutions and engagement through the process, this could be it *shoutout to Khalid’s English B class!
Lorella, you’ve been the very spine of the Visual Arts Department for some years now. What do you think has been the most meaningful change the department has spearheaded over the years?
What would be the biggest change you would make in the College’s art scene?
I think that I would widen the possibility for new artists and creators to come and visit the College, passing on their experience and knowledge to our students. It is always fulfilling to witness the exchange of ideas and passion, the interchange between budding and mastered artists, the dawn of newly found creativity and inspiration that always accompanies workshops and artist visits to our College.
The seasons change and the years pass, each one bringing a new group of talented faces and eager budding artists, from every corner of the world. The enthusiasm and passion have remained constant over the years; And with the change of time, the possibilities of alternative art have also risen. One of the most fulfilling changes was when we started putting students' artworks up for sale in aste di beneficenza, which are philanthropic art auctions.
This not only gave the students’ artworks a monetary value, but also taught the students the value of sacrificing their personal time and effort for a compassionate cause. I hope that in the future we can continue the legacy of aste di beneficenza; It offered something special for every single one of us.
ar t focus. LiuAlice Ioannides
How do you think that doing art has changed you?
Outside of teaching, I am actually a quite shy and humble person, and often prefer to stay more quiet in a discussion. Through art, I have found a way to better express myself, in a way that I cannot capture through words, but a way which is equally important and unique.
Outside your teaching duties, what are the ways in which you express yourself as an artist? Are the methods you use constant or ever-changing?
I work a lot with sculpture and ceramics, as I believe that through those art mediums I exhibit my ideas the best. However, they do take quite a lot of time, which is why I also work with pencil drawings, watercolours and oil paints. The medium I work with changes with my mood at the moment. Every artwork expresses a departure from the previous or next one, as they are very much a representation of my current thought process at that point in time.
What attitude changes do you find the most inspiring from within your students, as they progress from unripe primis to graduating secondis?
Gradual changes are definitely the most gratifying. Finding the time to experiment with creative possibilities, is a process which takes time, but which develops artistic abilities beyond almost anything else! Additionally, forming a more communal attitude towards the subject is something which is greatly admirable. Comparison can be greatly harmful, and jealousy hinders the exchange of ideas. But probably, as ordinary as it sounds, sharing and listening to others’ opinions and thoughts, is the attitude change which is the most impactful; We are a community which is incredibly diverse and multicultural, where everyone has a unique way of viewing and creating art; It would be an absolute pity to waste talent and potential in isolating our opinions and cultures, instead of sharing it with each other.
Today is the 5th of October, which is exactly 76% of the year. To me, it sounds a bit scary because I feel like 2022 just started a few weeks ago.
We humans are strange creatures. Every day we fight the hardships and snares of fate, trying to be happy. Just like a lot of other animal species do. But when we finally manage to achieve that happiness, we begin to babble. Suddenly, this is not what we wanted Yes, we talked about it but we meant it a little differently. We didn't ask for this kind of happiness so can we return it and try again? After all, it is almost new and certainly still under warranty!
One longs for happiness, but only a little bit of it. We want to be satisfied, but not too satisfied We need something to complain about We want to have some sort of pain so someone can kiss it better. After all, having a good time is almost blasphemy and it's clear that it won't last long. That's not how the world works, even if we were the ones to spoil it ourselves. But what about some kind of half-happiness...
It's just bad when something is too good. As if we always need to see a hill in front of us to climb. And if someone were to rate our life like a movie, it should get about seventy six percent. A higher rating would be suspicious and make the reviewer look biased. After all, the plot line was worth nothing. And the protagonist was played terribly. Plus, we've seen this before somewhere. Unoriginal, full of cliches. Why were we even watching this?
Imagine a story. She was a successful doctor, he was a respected professor, they got married, built a house, had children, were happy, and surrounded by a lot of true friends. When did you start yawning? Happiness does not amuse us and we are tired, a contented life is synonymous with boredom. We have this pre-set in our brains, which is triggered when everything starts to work and reaches the desired finale.
The only explanation I can think of, aside from the possibility that people are just nuts, is that we're taught in fairy tales that when it all goes well, it's over. And we don't want things to stop yet. After all, we are only in the first act. The first book of a comprehensive saga
Or at least we hope so.
Fancy monday
Daria Dumbravă & Violette Cogge
You name it! We have it all, don’t we? After all, fashion is a way to express and find your true nature and the world around you. What better place to define your style in than our so-called Duino bubble, where so many perspectives are shared and cherished, where exploring identity and culture is an intrinsic characteristic of our day-to-day journey?
As the wellbeing council has mentioned before, although there is no need for a special occasion to dress elegantly, our Fancy Monday tradition is an opportunity for us to start the week off with the resultant confidence, smiles and compliments.
It is one of those particular moments in UWC when you become aware of what is happening inside and outside your body and soul, it is then when you perceive the differences between us all- the background, state of mind and personality traits our clothes encapsulate. Happy every Fancy Monday, everyone! May this always be a reason for us to celebrate (because, in between us, we usually find quite a couple).
From suits... to skirts.
From black & white... to bright colours.
From the Italian taste... to styles from all around the world!
Autumn
Signe Lærke Holm
rough our Google Calendars counting eight-day cycles until we with “WINTER VACATION” written in bold letters across, we inevitably notice a change around us. Not a change as in primi finally feeling a sense of calmness as we’re settling in. Neither a change as in secondi merging intopersonificationsofstressamidtheiracademichurricane.No,thankGoddess, thischangeisdifferent.
AsleavesturnfromTinker-bellgreentopomodorored,RilkePath lights up and creates a striking picture of an almost burning plateauonthecliffabovethesea.Vivaldi’smusicalinterpretation ofautumninhis“TheFourSeasons”hitsdifferentwiththevisual backdropthatinspiredit.
The passing of time gets so beautifully exhibited through autumn'sabilitytorepainttheworldaroundus,ifbutonlyfora short amount of time. Through this confrontation with temporary beauty we are reminded that nothing lasts forever. Andthisinsightshouldremindusoftheimportanceofvaluingit whileitishere,andpreservingitsmemoryonceithaspassed.
Previously, our understanding of what makes a “season” might have been limited to its temporal aspect, being far away from home reminds us that the seasons are really multidimensional. Our geographical placement also significantly impacts our relations and connotations with each season. The time of the year that for people in the southern hemisphere is considered autumn will for people in the northern hemisphere be spring. Even within continents and countries each person will have some kind of individual image of what autumn means to them. And so, the seasons are more than a monotonous period between two dates. It is the visible and sensational changes in ourphysicalenvironmentthatallowsustosincerelymeanitand feelitwhenwecallautumn“autumn”.
Interview with Mark A walk through our college’s history: Irene Gallini
Mark Sylvester has been teaching at the college since 1983. Waiting outside the physics labs I see his head peeking through the clutter of the equipment.
“Shall we walk down to porto?” he says.
Did you notice any differences in the students throughout the years?
In the 1980s this was a very different world. You couldn’t possibly be recording what I was saying using a smartphone while walking down to porto because a recorder, a tape recorder was a big thing. When students came to Duino they basically left home, they had no easy contact with home unless they lived nearby. They had to write letters or something if they kept in contact with their families, since making long distance phone calls was problematic and expensive.
The fact that when the students came to Duino and left behind their families, their friends, their previous life made quite a big difference in the whole atmosphere of the place because they had to rebuild all their personal relationships within the college, which people still do, but it was everything back then. It was your whole life, and this has radically changed the way in which students operate in Duino. Now it is possible to maintain simultaneous lives in different places. People walk around with earpods and they talk in the street and are having a conversation with somebody back home. The students changed, maybe because they grew up with different stuff. It’s a different world. Duino started as a bit of an experimental school. You may think that it is still somehow experimental but we started out with the idea that we were gonna give a real big responsibility to the students.
What did this mean?
One thing which is relatively simple, is for example that we had student van drivers who used to drive vans to social service. They were trusted to have access to the van keys and were often asked to drive for one thing or another, which was a really big responsibility. There were some moments when that went wrong and we had accidents, luckily nobody died. Along the same lines, there was no checking or curfew or anything like that. We didn’t even have rules about alcohol, students had to look after each other. I’m not saying that this was a great thing, from two angles: one, the responsibility was a bit much to give to 17-18 year olds and some people didn’t cope well with that, and again luckily nobody died. I always come back to that phrase. It did make a very different kind of atmosphere in this school, teacher’s expectations of students were different as well as people’s expectations of each other. Now the world has changed a lot and the school could get into trouble for giving the students that amount of freedom.
Standing on the very end of the dock, he looks towards the stairs we walked from.
This house across the water here, the left hand downstairs part used to be a teacher’s apartment. In fact the teacher was Anne, who now still runs the climbing activity. The Dama Bianca over there, the first couple of years in Duino that was a student residence. Imagine having one of those rooms up there.
Here comes Anand in a kayak.
Of course there was another. The world was a bit different in the early 80s, Europe was very different then.
The college itself was built right by the iron curtain.
Things are changing again. I don’t know how things are at the moment cause we have students now from countries that are actually at war and we hadn’t had that for a while. In the 90s we had people from different parts of Yugoslavia and they were having a war, so that was a normal thing.
Really close to the college too.
Yeah, in fact during the war. There was a time in the 90s when NATO was dropping bombs on Belgrade because of the Kosovo situation, and from the NATO air base at Aviano they used to fly over Duino on their way to Belgrade. We had students from Belgrade, can you imagine hearing the planes you hear the planes going to bomb your home?
Are there any changes that you would like to see?
I’ve reached a stage in my life where you’re not so much interested in new changes. Change in itself is not good or bad, it’s the nature of the change of course what matters. I don’t know. One change which I think could be beneficial for our college and for many UWCs is that the IB has become a pain, but it was a very good curriculum for our needs if you go back 25 years or so. They basically set the syllabus and the exams and that was all. Gradually they came to think they should be more in control of what’s happening in the schools, and this may be good for some kinds of schools, but in our case they just added a lot of extra bureaucracy, work and stress. I think that a positive change could be to throw out the IB and to develop our own exam system, that does not depend on those people that cause all these problems. Quite a few people think the same at UWC. Of course, the question of universities recognizing the qualification is always there, but I think it’s something to work on seriously.
How do you think the students may change in the next few years?
This is so impossible to say because the world
has changed so quickly in 20 years, and so much that it’s really not possible to imagine what’s gonna happen next. We see that climate change is happening faster and faster, we see that the way that we live in cities is gonna change dramatically. There’s so many huge things that are gonna change, it’s almost scary.
While we walk uphill a tall man passes by with a suitcase in hand, and here comes Adrian, he looks as if he’s coming from the airport or something. He waves at us and says: “I just sent my wife away!”
When the students come here they go through a period of two years where they change a lot and they grow. Do you have any advice for them on how to handle it?
In general they do a much better job than I did when I was their age. It would be presumptuous of me to give them advice I think. It’s for everybody a slightly problematic stage in their life.
If you were 17 again, would you want to go to this school?
Maybe, I don’t know. I grew up in South Africa, and my highschool in Cape Town was a catholic school, although I was not a catholic. It was a single sex school as all catholic schools were, it was racially segregated as all schools in South Africa were. It was a complicated situation. I think I was quite wary about going to a boarding school at that stage of my life. I don’t know, maybe I would’ve applied but we’re talking about a long time ago. Maybe the answer… I should say probably no.
By this point we have reached the labs again. “I think this is it then” he says.
POCALYPSE DREAM OF an Apocalypse DREAM OF an Apocalypse by Ethan Chung
Dream
Come closer, my darling. Don’t be afraid. I know you’re curious about me. You’ve seen my shadows, my figure in the corners of your vision. I am not cruel, you need not fear me. I am more, I am better. Come with me, my darling. Let me show you a new world. A world where your passions and desires can be within your grasp. A world where I can bring you peace and harmony.
The world was a dark and dismal place The sun was hidden behind a permanent shroud of clouds, and the only light came from the eerie glow of an altered moon The land was barren and lifeless, with no sign of any living creature.
The only beings that remained were the vast, tentacled beasts. With gaping pits full of sharp teeth, and large, bottomless pits for eyes, the only way to describe them would have been eldritch. The beings that had brought about the apocalypse. They were dark, twisted creatures that had fed on the suffering of earthly lifeforms. They took pleasure in tormenting the humans, slowly wiping out the species
Once a human was taken into the grasp of a creature, they would suffer in unimaginable ways. Pain beyond anything they had ever felt before, like they were being ripped apart from the inside out, and all the while the creatures would be screeching sadistically as the human died in agony. Even in sleep there was no relief from the torture. The creatures often enjoyed torturing humans in their dreams. These were the worst ways to go. That was how I went.
I cannot tell you how it happened. I only know that one day, I woke up in a sun-dappled meadow, wildflowers nodding in a gentle breeze In the distance sat a cottage with smoke curling from its chimney reaching up into the sky Queasiness gripped my stomach yet I could not help but be drawn to such an innocent building. There was something alluring about the land, like a strange romance waiting to happen. I never even knew it was a dream. All memories of the apocalypse and death were shrouded from my mind. As I drew closer, the cottage seemed to grow in size until it loomed over me like a castle, the chimney its turrets and the smoke a thundercloud. The doors were open, inviting me inside. I came to a halt at the entrance, unsure if I truly wanted to enter. Mere steps from passing the threshold, the structure cast an eerie shadow over the landscape The flowers I had seen swaying in the sun were now wilted and an icy wind now swept the path I had just walked Then I heard a voice calling my name, soft and seductive I did not resist I stepped through the doors into the darkness beyond.
Immediately I was assaulted by a feeling of wrongness. The air was thick and clotted, like something was holding me, suffocating me with an increasing pressure. I had wished I could turn and run back to what was left of the meadow and the flowers, but I knew they were no longer there. Simply a mirage, a perfume to draw me in. And then I saw it. Smooth and pale flesh surfaces covering a large, slender body. The savage, barbaric figures of these monstrous invaders forgotten in the dream. Its eyes were large, black pits filled with an unearthly intelligence. And worst of all, it was always gazing, with thin lips stretched into what could only be called a grin, peering subtly, sensually. It radiated a confident beauty, so intoxicating that I could focus on nothing else. Unable to resist, I stepped forwards, gravitating into the creature’s arms
They were silky and strong, wrapping around me in a gentle but firm embrace. All of a sudden I was calm as I felt myself being pulled closer, closer until I was pressed against the soft, yielding flesh-like surface of its body. Its touch was like a poisoned fire, igniting a desire within me that I had never known before. I did not even struggle to resist, nonetheless, I would have been powerless against it. The creature’s lips peeled back into a terrifying, knowing smile, its facial features now filled with a dark hunger that mirrored my own. I was lost, consumed by the need to possess every inch of this unholy being, surrendering myself, giving myself over willingly into my burning passion. I fell into its darkness, my flesh and blood melting together with the sickening form of the creature, our bodies entwined in a desperate dance of desire. There was no going back, I belonged to it, forever.
But even as I succumbed to the creature’s pull, I could feel myself being split apart, my mind and body being pulled apart into smaller and smaller pieces, my consciousness fraying, torn by a supernatural infection I could feel it spreading through me, taking over my body, probing the insides of my mind. It smiled as it watched me being consumed, its eyes craving more, soaking in my pain. It was unbearable, like nothing I had ever experienced. I wanted to scream, but my mouth was no longer mine. I was no longer in control. I was nothing more than a passenger in my own body, helpless to resist as the creature took over.
I’ve been in agony ever since, my being soaked in pain. Wholly consumed within my sleeping state by the shadow-image of an apocalypse creature. I suffer and am spared no moment of relief the same way billions of other human beings suffer. There is no end.
MofanApo MOFANAP
It's hard to imagine a life as full as ours! Let's find out how many significant (and not so significant) events have taken place in the last three months.
01.09: September has begun, it's time to study. It's still early for school, of course, but you can go to a jazz concert. We could say that we studied art and learned the beauty of music.
21.09: Here is a holiday dedicated to us all. Peace One Day, or as it is also called, UWC Day! I don't even know what is worth highlighting on this day: the flag ceremony, a variety of workshops on all sorts of topics, or the concert afterward.
21.10: Trick or treat! Halloween has arrived. We saw many "scary" costumes and danced to "scary" music. It was very "scary" for everyone.
28.08: Who would have thought that in the beginning, students came not to study, but to have fun? This day was our first party of the year, dedicated to our EE friends. Can you remember what costume you wore?
01.10/22.10: Two dates for one event. The primi went to Venice and experienced a sea of incredible emotions. The trip there was long and tiring, but it was worth it.
03.09: Only a week later, the first-years had their initiation into students. A significant event for every newcomer. Also, a beautiful welcome concert from the secondi didn’t leave anyone feeling indifferent and our phones filled with pictures to commemorate it.
30.09: A day to remember for all secondi. After all, it's the day of finishing the first EE draft. I hope that things have gotten a lot easier after that. This semester's work required a lot of effort, and I could tell that you all did very well.
Wow, it’s been an intense two months. And I haven't even mentioned open mics, trips to Slovene weddings or the Alps, various events relating to topics important to students, black history month, and more. Does each new day surprise you, or has our exciting life here already become routine for you?
DIARY ENTRIES ON CHANGE
Change can mean many different things to everyone For some people it could mean a change in their physical location/ where they live, while for some it could mean a change of the people in their lives.
Change can be positive, negative, or somewhere along the middle. We all may have our various definitions of change, but it all boils down to one main point: things are not the same as they once were That too, can be interpreted in a plethora of ways. We asked UWCAD students what their definition of change would be. Some of the answers we got are:
"Change is a caterpillar turning into a cocoon. It is a struggle at first, and he does not know if things will be okay again. Out of nowhere, he turns into a beautiful butterfly, and all is well"
“To me change is a way to improve, learn from your mistakes and challenge yourself (but also to establish boundaries). Change is part of each of us' personal growth.”
“To me it is related to substituting or replacing something. It can also be turning into something different, new. ”
“Having something different and perhaps more meaningful than before (could me physically, mentally, socially, etc).”
“Some changes were kind of not a choice since they were caused by external factors so it was something like "change or suffer", while others were products of my own engagement and stuff. So I kinda feel proud of some, ashamed of some others (my fake emo phase for example) and in general I think they all helped me to grow. ”
“I feel amazed by some of the changes and I feel quite indifferent about the others.”
“I feel like some of them were unnecessary My life would have been extremely different if I didn't change some things at a certain point in my life. But I like to believe that all these changes that I have gone through are going to lead me to something that makes it all worth it.”
“I have extremely positive feelings about them, they shaped me into who I am now. ”
While others described change in one word, as “Improvement” and “Transformation. ”
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Weronika
Woźny supported by Matilde Minto
One thing you need to know about the structure of Italian politics is that since 1945, Italy has had 69 governments You don’t need to know multivariable calculus to understand that this gives us a new government every 1 12 years on average Indeed, Italians are good at many things, one of them being able to adapt to the constant changes occurring in their government. But to understand everything we need to go back in time to 2018 when the previous Italian government was elected.
In 2018, the legislation was led by a coalition of the two parties that received the most votes –the Five Star Movement and the League. They joined forces to appoint Giuseppe Conte, an unelected professor of law, as prime minister
This populist coalition broke down in the summer of 2019 when the League opted out and was replaced by the centre-left Democratic Party. As if it couldn’t get more complicated, the new government was formed but it was still led by Conte that managed to keep his position thanks to the support of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party
In Polish, we say that misfortune always comes in pairs, well this time they came in a trio because apart from the pandemic there were two other factors contributing to the political climate. First, the parliament that came out of the 2018 election was substantially different from previous ones
The Five Star Movement obtained one-third of the overall seats, bringing to parliament many MPs with little or no political experience and from lowincome jobs. The selection of these political amateurs as candidates was done through a private online platform. Second, the first Conte government passed constitutional law, later confirmed by a referendum in September 2020, reducing the number of members in the Italian parliament from 630 to 400 in the lower house and from 315 to 200 in the Senate. With the next political election, initially scheduled for 2023, the parliament will shrink by one-third. This has exacerbated each MP’s individual concerns about their personal careers
If you thought that this was the beginning of stabilisation, you couldn’t be more wrong, because Italian politicians definitely watched too many Alfred Hitchcock's movies and this was just an earthquake that built up to a climax. Conte’s government was brought down during the pandemic in February 2021 and replaced by a national unity technocratic government led by Mario Draghi, not a politician but a former governor of the Bank of Italy and former president of the European Central Bank. This government was supported by all major parties, with the exception of the far-right neo-fascist Brothers of Italy now led by Giorgia Meloni (remember these names because soon they will be the main characters of this play)
Spoiler alert this is not the first time that Italy has resorted to a technocratic government, as Carlo Ciampi and Mario Monti had already been brought in on two different instances to steady their governments at the time.
BINGO
This is change expressed in different forms. A part of us long ing to what it is, was, or will be one million light
jumped off the rocks in Porto spoken English in Italian class been told stereotypes about my own country/people eaten pasta con pomodoro had Riptide stuck in my head
skipped the mensa line
taken a picture of the castle
said/been told “you shouldn’t study in the 1st term”
broken curfew cut/dyed my hair
been to osmizza cried at one of the shows
begged for noodles
kissed someone from another continent missed the bus
forgotten to sign out played cards against humanity broken something in mensa celebrated my birthday at UWC called the teacher on duty (ex. because of a wasp)
had been compared to UWC Moster learned words in 5+ new languages been to Cernizza at night ordered kebab not replied to my EE friend
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If most of your answers were B’s:
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You vividly remember Yugoslavia. You’re a human compass, a skill which is useful for your daily walks to Conad. There’s a mysterious edge to you which makes people all the more curious! Nothing surprises you anymore, yet you find joy in the smallest of things. Keep up the good work and don’t forget to check Quora, somebody just asked how speed depends on time.
If most of your answers were C’s:
You’re a Cristina
You can’t stop doing attivita sportiva, even when you’re in class. Mark would want you for a Physics IA because you radiate so much energy into the environment. Even though people might think that you’re extroverted, there is more to than you that meets the eye… just like cannoli! You may be sweet, but purtroppo, you’re not edible. What is the secret to your seemingly endless youth and vitality?
If most of your answers were D’s:
You’re a Pablo
Mother died today… Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. Porca miseria… But it doesn’t matter because it’s a book! Literature is your passion and you live your life as if you are the protagonist. You rush between classes just like Santiago Nasar trying to escape his eventual murder. By the way, don’t forget to buy some shampoo for those luscious locks of yours. With you, every day is a day of intellectual wonders, but sometimes you gotta lean back and listen to some music every once in a while.
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Horror and Mysterious Movies from Around the World
Beetlejuice (USA)
Beetlejuice is one of the classics I personally rewatch every year. It’s a 1988 horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton. The film begins with the death of the main characters. After finding a book called Handbook for the Recently Deceased, they decide to hire a "bioexorcist" to scare away new inhabitants from their house – a former real estate developer Charles, his second wife Dalia who is a self-proclaimed sculptor, and his goth daughter from his first marriage.
The Platform (Spain)
The Platform is a Spanish sci-fi horror movie set in a giant hole Its residents, switched every month between its many floors, are fed via a platform. Starting at the top floor, it’s filled with all sorts of food, then it gradually descends through the tower's levels, stopping for a fixed amount of time on each.
Perfect Blue (Japan)
Perfect Blue is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller based on a novel Complete Metamorphosis. It’s about a member of a Japanese idol group, Mima Kirigoe, who decides to leave the group and becomes an actress She receives a fax calling her a traitor On the Internet, Mima discovers a page with her daily life described in detail. Gruesome murders begin to occur, and she starts to lose her grip on reality.
Shaun of the Dead (Britain)
It is another horror comedy that makes fun of classical zombie movies. Main character, Shaun, is a businessman that no one shows respect for One morning, he sees an unknown woman in his garden who looks drunk. When he pushes her, the woman impales herself on a stake. But she's still alive! Shaun learns that a dangerous virus has turned most of the town's residents into living corpses overnight.
Climax (France)
This psychological dance horror written and directed by Gaspar Noé is set in a cabin in the middle of the woods during winter 1996. The French dance troupe’s after-party takes a dark turn when the communal bowl of sangria disappears from sight for a moment. Each of the dancers begin to fall into agitated, confused, and psychotic states.
The Dead Don’t Die (Sweden / USA)
A zombie parody movie about a small American city Cartenville written and directed by Jim Jarmusch Cartenville seems to be an ordinary town until strange things start happening. The sun doesn't set when it normally should, a strange woman with a Scottish accent and a samurai sword enters a local funeral home, and the racist farmer Miller’s cattle disappears
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Canada / USA)
The plot follows a group of young intellectuals going camping in the woods They encounter two countrymen – Tucker and Dale who try to make contact with them, but the teenagers find their behavior suspicious and assume they are psychopathic killers. The movie then displays parodied scenes from wellknown "murder horrors" such as Horror Hotel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Predator, The Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, Fargo, or The Blair Witch Project.
Alice (Czechoslovakia / Switzerland)
Alice is a stop motion animation movie based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It was created by Jan Švankmajer in 1988 and original title “Něco z Alenky” means “Something from Alice”. The director had been disappointed by other adaptations of Carroll's book, which interpret it as a fairy tale His aim was instead to make the story play out like an amoral dream.
Deathgasm (New Zealand)
After his father’s death, Brodie moves in with his Uncle Albert place in Greypoint. Brodie is a metalhead which goes against his uncle’s Christian beliefs. He feels alone until he meets Zakk and together they start a metal band. But the music summons an ancient demon. Their classmates and relatives become possessed by demonic powers that tear out their eyes and turn them into murderous maniacs.
Borgman (Netherlands / Belgium / Denmark)
One day, a homeless man who introduces himself as Anton rings the bell at a luxury villa. He encounters Richard and Marina, an upper-class married couple with three children, claims to know Marina and demands a bath and food. Due to his aggressive behavior, Richard gets angry and beats him. However, Marina, driven by guilt and curiosity, allows him to stay in a garden shed without Richard knowing it
