Movie Review: Inside Job

Inside job is a 2010’s documentary that talks about 2008’s financial crisis and shows investigations and interviews that reveal the real causes of the crisis, putting emphasis at corruption, for example, the interest conflict that exist inside the financial industry, the relationship between state politics and economy pressures, the elevated wages that year by year are increasing at the industry or even the connection that exist between universities and crisis. The film got an Oscar at 2011 for Best Documentary Feature, and also was very well received by the critic. Inside Job don’t talk just about a punctual issue, it talks about how people that are at the top of financial industry, and, because of that, have the obligation and responsibility of administrate almost everything –state budgets, pensions, etc.- that influence on our daily living, don’t really put people benefits above their personal benefits. The film talks about selfishness and an aggressive careless about the other, it shows the “white-collar criminals” and how state and authorities don’t make justice about it. It’s a calling for reflection about who are those people and how true is what they are saying.

My future job

I really don’t know what I want to do when I get my grade at university. I want to do something outdoors and indoors, I like both. I also want to travel a lot but not pretty sure if I want to do it because of job. Before start studying anthropology I wanted to study Hispanic literature and being a Spanish teacher, I have had really good teachers in my life that left important learnings. I’m still thinking about it.  I don’t want to be an anthropologist, not for now. If I had to do something related to anthropology, I think I would get the social and the physical anthropology mentions, and then I would specialize myself at human ecology, the topic that talks about the relationship between human being (his culture and biology) and the environment. Or maybe I’ll finish this career and then I’m going to study another thing, I don’t know. I have nothing for sure, and even when sometimes future bothers me, I never think that I’m “losing my time” cause I’m not losing it. I'm getting experience, and I’m enjoying this career even when I don’t know if I want to keep in. Before start university I used to think “I won’t know if anthropology likes me if I never study it. To know if something likes you, you have to taste it” and I wasn’t wrong, I think. A close friend once told me that the only thing that has to bother me about the future is to end this day in a good way. It has work for me.

The best holiday/concert I've had

Like I said in another post, music is one of the most important things in my life. My first concert was System of a Down, when I was fifteen, but I didn’t enjoy it at all even when SOAD is one of my favorite bands. I had to live some other concerts to learn how to enjoy them. At first I was scared about the crowd, and I didn’t enjoy concerts because of that, but something told me to keep trying, concerts HAVE TO be like everyone says, unforgettable. And I was not mistaken. Through time I have learnt how to live a concert without dying, I think that the first time I really enjoyed a concert was in Pearl Jam, at 2013. But that was only the beginning of my way through living the music. This year I have been to a lot of tocatas by Chilean groups. But my best concert ever was Arcade Fire, this year at Lollapalooza. Like Syd Barrett said in 1967:

“Really, we have only just started to scrape the surface of effects and ideas of lights and music combined; we think that the music and the lights are part of the same scene, one enhances and adds to the other. We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show”

And that was Arcade Fire. Much more than just a pop show, it was a theatre. The costumes, the effects and the things that they prepare for us, Arcade Fire’s tour had by thematic the Reflektor’s video, with that giant heads making an intervention and so on.

But if I can say something as an advice, it doesn’t really matter how extraordinary is the band or the concert if you are alone living it. At Arcade Fire I was with very closer friends that came from Calama and Antofagasta, and I know that it would not have been the same without them. At that Lollapalooza I wanted to saw Nine Inch Nails instead of Red Hot Chilli Peppers, but, because of my friends, I went to the last one anyway, even when I don't like very much RHCP. I don't regret about it, I really enjoyed it. I think that the final reflection from Christopher McCandless at Into the wild is very meaningful: "Happiness only real when shared"

A country I would like to visit.

I really don’t have a dreamed country where I want to go to, I want to travel and discover things in the world but there’s not a place that keep awake me. I think I would like to travel to New Zealand just because Lord of the rings was recorded there, and the locations that appear in the movie are fantastic. I also want to know how the Maori culture is, and how New Zealand deals with that diversity.

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean with 4.5 million of people. As you can see, the country has really amazing and dreamed landscapes, I would like to go with friends and just enjoy nature. I think sometimes we forgot about how comforting is just sitting in front of a beautiful place and feeling like being in a movie.

I also, of course, want to visit The Shire. When I saw the movie for the first time I didn’t know that it was recorded in New Zealand, and I thought that almost landscapes and places where fake. Then I knew that the country indeed exist, and I really want to travel there.

My life as a playlist

Music is one of the most important things in my life, music has been present since I was a child. My house is full of CD’s, cassettes and vinyls. My father used to listen to Pink Floyd, The Doors, Bob Dylan and all that folk-rock and psychedelic 60’s music, also classical music, trova and Chilean music. It's hard to pick up a few songs to make a playlist, but i try to do it accord to my mood

When I’m happy:

Pedro Piedra – Para ti

Pink Floyd - Bike
Passion Pit – Carried Away
David Bowie  - Heroes. When I listen to Heroes I feel just like that scene on The Perks of being a wallflower where Emma Watson stand on the car
The Killers – Bones
Blur – The Universal
Arctic Monkeys – She’s Thunderstorms

Radiohead - Sulk
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Niño Cohete - El Bosque
Arcade Fire - Wake up. Tthis song remember me a concert, when I listen to it is like been there again

When I’m sad or just not really happy:

Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees

The National – Heavenfaced

Beck – The Golden Age. This song is from the disc Sea Change, for me, the most depressive disc from Beck
Cat Stevens – Trouble

Jorge Drexler – Soledad

Syd Barrett - Feel

Fother Muckers – 2022

Fother Muckers – No soy Uno

Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues

and when I’m feeling relax, like "in peace"

Jorge Drexler – Milonga Paraguaya
Eddie Vedder – Into the wild soundtrack (especially when I’m travelling)
The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Special Orchestra