Bridge of Spies...humans can be cold as war

If your background is Irish, and the next guy's German, and your neighbor is Russian, what makes you American? Living under the same rules of the book. The Constitution is what brings all these heritage and different cultures together. Living as one. Now they all share one same ideology, building a new country based in a smash up of different heritages but under the ideal of freedom and liberty. If so, anyone has the right to be treated as equal and have a proper trial and the right to be considered as innocent as any citizen of their own country. Building bridges between countries that might not share the same politics or economy but hungry for power will become a secret war in trade for information that will bring and increase that power.
"BRIDGE OF SPIES" (2015), is that reflection. Described as a thriller, looks better as a drama. One that gets deep in the mind set of different countries fighting to figure their own status among the rest just to realize how ignorant sometimes we are when comes to foreign cultures.


The story follows the fight of a Brooklyn lawyer, Mr. Donovan. His firm pushed him to take the case of an alleged Russian spy that deserves a proper trial in order to follow the nation desire of get him on the electric chair. Because what matter is what everybody thinks, and that means he is a spy recovering information to drop the next nuclear bomb to the country.We might never know if he is a spy or not and what are his real intentions in the country but as a human being is as honorable and decent that won his american lawyer heart's. Then things take a turn when american best interest of spying their Russian fellows ended in disaster, getting their new prototype plane hitter and crashed and the young pilot caught as prisoner of war. Then Mr. Donovan, played by the popular actor Tom Hanks bringing one of his charming performances but nothing new to his standards, gets involved in the negotiations to exchange spies, trying to save the one of his own and bring his case to a happy ending. When negotiations start, we can only realize how politics follow a different book.

The one that cares about what everybody wants and thinks. Some are more concern about wining a war. One that doesn't exist but also is happening under the table exchanging information that will bring power to whom posses it. Some others care about their citizens, bringing peace to them in their homes and minds. Others just follow orders and care about wat they are told in order to do their best and be doing an excellent job. And just a few care about what is right. What all the people involved are suffering. Of how many are paying the consequences from decisions of others. It's only when you get out of your comfort zone and get in the shoes of others that you realize what you really have and the benefits you are enjoying and the sacrifice others are living. We might not agree with all what we have and things happening around us but it's not until you are able to experience the lack of those in others that you might value them.


Nothing is more important than safety, liberty, freedom, and when these are in jeopardy, perspectives will change and things take a turn from living to survival. Under perspective of director Steven Spielberg, this story proves it all. His own obsession with war and its consequences brings to the the table a new face of the period called Cold War, moving away from what a traditional war is, to become an espionage tale that moves around the psyche of it's participants. Showing images of those consequences after war and comparing two sides of the world living the dream of winning and losing.

At the end, what really matters is whatever you think, not to be thank for or be recognize for, but knowing that anyone has done what it was right and supposed to is what will bring you peace. Not following just orders or becoming a sheep following others but standing by yourself even when others point at you and might not understand what's behind your actions, at the end this will fall together and will prove if was right or wrong but in times of war and desperate measures needed, follow your heart will prevent you to become as cold as any war or winter storm, because by the end of any conflict, and when we were able to look back at the events, are those who pursue the idea of saving and helping others the ones that will stand timeless and will bring the best for any nation regardless cultures, heritage, traditions or ideologies but as secret heroes nor soldiers or spies. What make you an American? What makes you a citizen of your country and what are doing to make it a better one? Are you building bridges between countries, cities, families, careers, communities or you still standing by your own?

Steve Jobs - a man behind the screen...saver

What's behind all those personalities that we read in the news or keep watching all around the place trying to change the world in certain way? Are they the person we figured at first sight or is there more than the book cover? What's really happening in their lives at the same time things are happening in the spotlight? It's easy to judge someone by their acts but what's behind every decision or quote we hear from them. How's possible they are transcending and being part of our current history while inspire us or maybe the opposite, they are just challenging us by showing us a dark side of thing from us to avoid it and search for better. Are we define by this person we became or will it be for the people around us, that got inspired by us when able to see the real person we are deep inside. What is being said on every action in our life? How can be judged when we don't share the same perspective of things? But also how can we judge if we not open to listen and see more than what we think are capable to.There's always more to add in the equation than a simple definition. What's happening when everyone is trying to change their own world following their own path and trying to build a new one with others that might share or not the same vision.

This is not an easy essay about this psyche getting deeper into human personality and behavior but a very interesting and entertaining one to prove that there is always more than what we can see in the surface. The subject of this analysis is "Steve Jobs"(2015), better known as the CEO of one of the most popular companies based on the tech industry that is well known in every side of the world and is value is multi billion based. Also is well know that he co found with his all time friend, at his garage, the Apple empire. And we knew that he launched Macintosh to become a big career failure pushing the company to fired him just to find himself re inventing another product just to get his way back to his once, beloved company. Also got in a battlefield of the media regarding his attitude against his friends and employees, but mostly regarding his daughter, the one he first didn't recognize but once we started seeing the resemblance in their perspective and language of his own world, start growing on him.

How all this pieces fit a puzzle in a life that was end from the sudden thanks to cancer? Well, we all know and figured how all this is gonna work, award season loves bio epics, so bringing a new one from such a celebrity, entrepreneur, businessman and in his own words, the man behind the orchestra, capable of put and manage all the pieces while others are just the best at their area, designing, decoding, engineering, etc, sounds like we are ready for what is about to come. Fortunately this is not your average bio epic. Based as other recent ones in just a few important events in his life, we are able to get into the mind and skin of one the know called, greatest minds of the century, just by being present in his life for a few minutes before the launching of his greatest creations, the ones that made a bigger impact in his career as much as in his life and all the people around him.

What's the price any mortal needs to pay to build such an empire? A very high one. Being able to coordinate and design the right product, being visionary while keeping it on the cool side while trying to go against the traditional way is not an easy task but when your mind is set on the right direction you might reach your goal, sadly people will get hurt in the process, alienating your closest friends and family. When you run your life like a horse, with a very specific vision, can tend to ignore some details that others but you can see and then fights and egos get involve. But when your mind work as a planner, designing the next step and able to see what is better for the market or your own company, discovering black holes in the process, and imagining a better way, can't let feelings get in involved, treating persons as machines designed to follow a plan. Then your life can't get better but lonely.

The way greater minds act is still a mystery but history has proven than you can have it all, and that big talent come with side effects like the fact of being told more than you are based on your fame or talent more than your heart and humility. As we speak, there a millions of people using any kind of apple product and thats a legacy than just a few can take from. But with time and at the end of the run what matters more? Hit the target and become famous, popular and a role model for millions of strangers while just a few people is still around and has nothing but hate and anger against you is worth the fight? We can't judge until we know whats hiding underneath. Sometimes funny, some others intelligent but mostly stubborn, what makes a man stand in front of thousands take more than a short description and this is just a glimpse of the man behind the name and a logo.

Knowing the truth and embracing what we are and where we come from will let us know better and understand our actions. Can't be a good nor great father if never had one and your own mother wasn't your to be able to love you when got you. Can't be a great leader if never had a role model and the only one we count on is turning against us, losing any faith and respect on us. Then we come back with all what we have and we won't stop till get us to the point where we feel safe and confident again, and that one is most getting to the top, of everybody and everything. That's quite a hard life job.

THE WALK ... of shame?

Robert Zemeckis es mejor conocido como un director optimista con un gusto particular por lo visual. Historias que trascienden mas por su corazón y el impacto que generan en nosotros como espectadores, que por contar la historia y adentrarse en los linajes mas profundos de ella, por mas obscuros o intrincados que parezcan. Así tras habernos llegado atreves del tiempo ("Back to the future", 1985), mostrarnos la vida en comparación a una caja de chocolates ("Forrest Gump", 1994) o dejarnos náufragos en una isla ("Naufrago", 2000), ahora nos lleva y presenta una historia que desafía las alturas y toda moral, lógica mientras pretende brindar tributo a un monumento de la cultura america atreves de los ojos de un foráneo, que cual metáfora de los origines del país, es quien brinda la mejor representación del mismo mediante la imputación de su talento.

"The Walk" (2015), es la historia de un singular joven francés, Philippe Petit, quien como todo niño, tras presenciar un acto circense queda asombrado e impactado por la hazaña de sus interpretes que decide intentarlo por si mismo. Pero a diferencia de muchos que con el tiempo, crecen y lo superan, Philippe se apasiona mas con la idea de ser un caminante de la cuerda floja, por lo cual crece practicando cual gimnasta, toda habilidad y técnica necesaria para ser el mejor en ello. Lo cual lo lleva a cruzarse con singulares personajes que lo ayudaran en esta búsqueda y lucha personal por desarrollar lo que mas le apasiona y que fuera de ser solo un acto en un circo, el pretende llevarlo a cabo hasta convertirlo en un arte y maravillar a la gente con ello de la misma manera que paso con el.

Así, con el paso del tiempo, y tras sentirse mas capaz de lograr ejecutar un magnifico alto, solo queda la incógnita de cual sera el lugar indicado para ello? Cual señal del destino, en las noticias aparece la próxima apertura de las, entonces, torres mas altas del mundo, Las Torres gemelas, con el perfecto ángulo para poner su cuerda y caminar de una a otra. La cinta podría dividirse en dos diferentes filmes. La primer parte, la cual ahonda en la historia detrás de este peculiar acto y el hombre que lo llevo acabo. Llegamos a conocer y profundizar en Philippe para entender sus motivos, su pasado y de alguna manera lograr empatizar con el a pesar de que en papel refleja el perfecto cliche que el mundo tiene de los francés, egoístas, testarudos, egocéntricos y obstinados. Con la interpretación del actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, un actor americano, tenemos también la encarnación del francés promedio, acento incluido, mas es difícil juzgar su similitud con el Philippe real, quien aun se encuentra vivo y que a su vez protagonizo el documental basado en el ahora histórico momento.

Desgraciadamente, por tratar de hacer al protagonista agradable y accesible a la audiencia y sus motivos luzcan mas un acto de pasión que un capricho en busca del arte personal y redención, hay momentos que caen en lo caricaturesco, volviéndose enfadoso el tener que escuchar la narración del protagonista de los hechos de su vida como si estuviéramos leyendo un libro para niños. A su rescate tenemos el grupo de personajes secundarios quienes representan todas aquellas dudas y sentimientos que en algún momento como espectadores vienen a la mente. Donde esta la vida mas allá de su pasión por el arte? Hay cabida para mayores emociones y sentimientos que aquella adrenalina por esta fascinante idea? Como cualquier artista hasta donde se justifica su vision contra la perspectiva del resto del mundo? Cuanto cena la obsesión ante la pasión y amor?

Y llegamos a la segunda parte, donde ahora la cinta se convierte en estilo de cinta de roba bancos, donde todo gira en torno a la planeación y ejecutaron del robo, que aquí se transfiere en la ilegalidad de colgar un cable y todo el equipo necesario para soportarlo durante los minutos necesarios para que un hombre camine a través de el y cruce de una torre a otra. Toda esta planeación se reflejara y creara secuelas en los involucrados, especialmente en los miedos y obstinación del protagonista por lugar su cometido, y como todos sabemos, el momento llega, y nuestro protagonista logra su cometido, no como un héroe que salvo al mundo o descifro una nueva formula, sino como un mortal que logra su meta, alcanza un sueño y nos da con bofetada de guante blanco una lección de cuan factible es alcanzar lo que nos proponemos cuando se trabaja arduamente por lograrlo.

Mas esta no es una lección moralista, ya que en su trayecto, se hirieron sentimientos y rompieron relaciones por no decir la ley, mas se le aplaude su valentía por desafiar lo inimaginable y valorarle la audacia y tenacidad por su lucha mas con la nota en rojo sobre cuan ejemplo a seguir esto es. Si todos lo aplicaramos, cuantas leyes se romperían? cuanta anarquía se desataría? vale apena pagar tal precio sin sacrificar los efectos secundarios ? es valido luchar por nuestras metas e ideas, mas cuantas de ellas no afectaran las de otros o sus vidas en general? Y aunque saldremos de la sala entretenidos cual acto cirquense, mas al estilo del Soile que de los hermanos Vazquez, esto no deja de ser un entretenimiento y sentirnos a salvo y protegidos por la red de seguridad, no ay riesgos, conocemos el desenlace, todo se ve muy fácil y correcto muy a pesar que en el fondo de nuestra mente sabemos que no lo es, pero si hay algo de rescatar y aplaudir es el trabajo visual que estamos por presenciar.

La representación de las famosas torres, a sus casi 15 años de caídas, lucen en su máximo esplendor y adornan la ciudad de Nueva York, como lo hicieron desde su primer día, y como su ultimo cuadro de la cinta, el verdadero homenaje de tal acto y de dicha historia no es al artista sino a la musa, dos torres de concreto que se sienten aun vivas y presentes y que despiertan al asombro de aquellos que no tuvieron la oportunidad de conocerlas, como la nostalgia de aquellos que vivieron atreves de ellas. Así la pintura se convierte en una ofrenda al cuadro para poder apreciar el arte detrás del artista y al momento la cinta pinta para fracaso al ser esta una ofensa al patriotismo americano que se siente burlado por la falta de respeto a su obra por un foráneo que rompió sus reglas y leyes para hacer de su tierra su campo de juego, no así la oportunidad de presenciar este acto en tercera dimension vale la pena de tan caro boleto cuando para muchos fue una oportunidad gratuita en plena calle, otra gran metáfora en esta caminata de vida y desafíos. Y tu que tan alto o lejos estas dispuesto a llegar por esa meta o lograr lo que creías imposible?

99 HOMES....when just need 1 to get your family under

There's no safer place like home but what if you about to lose it? What if your own space, the one that protects and let you rise your family is taken from you? What would feel like to lose everything? because even more important than your values is the place where so many memories were built and let you safe them. This is "99 Homes" (2015), a movie that is more a recent tale about recent events. This is only 2010, 5 years ago, when America and the rest of the world were struggling after the economical crisis of 2008, that affect millions of families, leading them to lose their home against banks taking over them when the lack of jobs and increase in mortgage interests turn the market into a shark tank.This scar still feels fresh as we haven't forget yet what we've been trough to get to now and build back our economy and get financial stable after months of debt and bills. So when we sit to watch the story of so many others losing the most precious and sacred core of their family can't feel but moral guilty about this path that so many built and how others took advantage to survive and make business from it.

How did you or would you feel if one day you wake up to realize that someone ese own your property. You are trespassing. you are breaking the law and you need to leave, with only 2 minutes to pick whatever you can and be a homeless. This is the story of Mr. Nash, a young man, taking care of his mom and his son, jobless and now homeless. We are about to witness a story of survival. A terrific tale of two characters facing two sides of moral complementing each other as ying yang with an intense script, serving as a modern economic parable, a heart pounding score and powerful performances. When you lose your job, the less you realize is that in between all the upcoming debts and sacrifices, a new life will show up as part of the increase in rates and business of others behind the face of a bank. Corporations start to fight over thousands of houses that are facing increase in rate and interests making their owners hard to keep up with mortgage. Then as a real state, when the market is close due to the economy and can't sale more houses to private, a game changer comes turning to sale them to others, bank, government, and corporations that are willing to pay for them as an investment for the future to come and a new market able to pay for them or just make the best of it.

But any owner won't know that. When  you fight against them all what matters and you can see is the law, and law is supposed to rule but in desperate times, desperate measures either ways, for them to push the government to move faster with a lack of evidence or prove to close deals and defenseless workers and families and for these to find a way to survive through the crisis and get their families bak to a safe place and put food in their mouth. Mr. Nash, as any family man is only concerned about his family and bring the best for them. So when they need to move to a motel while figuring out the next step and being humiliated while kicked out from their home, losing personal properties and moving away from they friends, opportunities arise, sometimes from where less expected. That way, he find him working for the same people that took everything from him. But he has experience and more than that, courage and a will to help his family. And soon he realices that solution is in front of him, and in a very easy way, but everything has a price and nothing is for free, the moral charge that comes with it might be harder to deal than his own circumstances.

At beginning, it seems easy, just construction work is needed, but soon things go deeper as he keeps doing a good job and winning his new boss trust. And thats the second character worth to follow. The survivor. The new boss and business taking advantage of this new market while the rest is in crisis and sinking in the economy, he founds the way to survive but doing it using others. As he describes, America was built for fighters and people taking risk and survivors willing to do whatever it takes to get the american dream, no matter the price that comes with it.

For someone struggling and fighting to keep his family through difficult times, these words and example comes like to music to his ears so with that set of mind a new phase starts, he will start doing his boss job. So now the good guy turns into the dark side, and even when he's doing wrong and we can see the moral effect in him, we can judge him as he as everybody is trying to do his best for his own. Same way the other families do the same and he did when in their shoes. How far can we go to achieve our goals and what's the limit to use others to bring ourselves up and do better? Does the end justify the means? What defines when is right or wrong if we are in hard times and crisis? we act like a modern civilized society when economy and politics are stable but what about when this get out of control and balance will benefit just a few, is it right to fight against our neighbors and others like us to survive or better say to avoid being us the ones who suffer the most? And if so, that makes us the bad guys or we still good ones justified by our real motives, nothing personal against others. We just came through our last economic crisis so might be the right timing to reconsider the damage and casualties and learn from our mistakes trying to to better for the best of all or plan measures for the times to come and be aware that we are facing hard times every day from now on, and fight to keep at least one place we can call home.

Sicario...a war beyond the cartels

There is a fight that has everyone in this continent and overseas checking the news everyday and has brought attention of militia, governments and ordinary people from all the world wondering what moment did everything go out of control. That moment when drugs and cartels where only legends at the south of America. A moment when drugs where inaccessible, an underworld temptation that was more like a treat than a regular in our lives. A time when drug dealers where junk addicts seeking for their own refill not a life style and a powerful business capable of rule over politicians and cops. That time has arrived and now we all are trapped in this era where drugs are invading homes of all America and cartels are ruling the market with power enough to control markets and destiny of countries. When and how this happen? That's the real question.

All of those who had ever consumed a drug at anytime in their life might be part responsible of this boom of the cartels as no power comes by itself. WE should remind that someone introduce it to our lives and as any cell alive need to breath and water to reproduce. Same happens out there. We made it easy to bring it at the our doors. not long time ago, this was a front page news from countries like Colombia, best known for their own production of drugs and narcotics that even expanding and merchandising them, was far and out of sight. Then things change at home and all chaos became under control. From the sudden, a new one exploded just in our faces. A new drug era raised in the corner of a country like Mexico corrupt enough and economically unstable to provide the perfect circumstances to them for a new start and with the perfect location as the back yard of one of the main consumer, was just like pieces setting perfectly.

Now after years of war from governments and special forces to finish it and control the market, all others who have witnessed this battle had suffered the consequences with losses of family, friends and cities that had came under the new century war. But how much do we know about it. What's really happening behind the curtain and what we don't see once change the tv channel? Are we all conscious about the impact of this and how big of an issue this has turned into? how much is in our hands and how far are we involved or we can still pretend to not notice it and be ignorants trying to continue our lives as if nothing will ever happen to us, leaving disaster for those living in war land when actually we might be already there.

This is the story of "Sicario" (2015), a terrific thriller that serves to tell the story of a tough FBI agent that proves ben capable to be the new addition to a new force aligned to find one of the heads of the most wanted cartels in Mexico. She is willing to fight and search for this people no matter what, until she realizes that she knows nothing about them and herself. A fight like this calls for wolves, no room for sheep. Morals will shade in front of a threat that comes as a gift, a new opportunity that just will turn into disaster. That's what she will discover when she fights in the dark, knowing nothing about the real agenda of her new team leader and his crew, including Alejandro, a Colombian ex agent that might have his own agenda. Mention apart for an excellent cast where actress Emily Blunt, a personal  favorite that keeps growing and choosing better project every time, brings a hell of a performance.

When time comes to fight and clues lead to one head to another trying to find the puppeteer, and break the business that has killed so many and destroyed families. But at this point of war, what do we really know about this business. How it operates, how to connect all the dots and figured the end and the beginning to make it stop or change it. As a nerve breaking film, we'll witness a glimpse of this fight, while we go through the motivations of all of those involved just to realize how things might seem different from one perspective to another. As many of other issues in all times is hard to define what was first, the chicken or the egg? who create who, did they infiltrate in our lives making us a customer or we and our seeking of new experiences and as an answer to deal with all our baggage and stress create them as an industry as a big as any legal one. Do we really need drugs in our lives? Or this is just a new excuse to create a new war that is happening at home? Is it all truth what are we watching in the news or is all part of the same show working as marketing for a business that no needs it but to hide the real power fight inside it.

That's the moment when our mind will open and we'll see the real agenda behind governments and agencies. There is no corruption if you actually one of the creators. How much did the government got involve in positioning cartels and how much of a war for power this also has turned. Everybody will want a piece of this cake as profitable as it is that would be stupid to think there is just one string pulling everything from behind. Other industries like the best known Colombian, the middle eastern, the russian, like old mafias are looking for a piece of this game just making it bigger and harder to identify and fight as overtime that a head is cut, a new one will arise and if one market comes down there will be other with different purpose and agenda will take over. The more everyone takes conscious of it the more we can do to fight it and while we can learn from stories like this that while make us feel and suffer, enjoy and learn, pointing the finger to criticize delicate topics, the more we can become stronger to avoid temptations and make changes in our society and rise our voice to all those who call themselves as savior while are just another wolf dresses up as sheep.

THE INTERN... basics will never change

Feel good movies are meant for that, bring us that perspective that at the end everything will be ok and no matter how hard life and things can go sometimes, there always be calm after the storm. Director Nancy Meyers has built a career based on this genre where with just 5 previous films, most of them are now classic for fans of this type of movies so it's no surprise that her new addition will fit the profile after a long due waiting. "The intern" (2015), could be a simple movie, with a premise based on the senior characters that she had used us to but definitely will prove that she can still do what its her best and also bring us some interesting perspectives that might not be as deeper as n academy award movie but can put the finger on these so actual topics.

What i'm talking about comes from the plot of this movie, based on the story of two characters, an elder man, retired, widow, that ran into a proposal for internship for seniors in a new online fashion company. This brings new airs to his life, like to feel productive again and bring his experience to the table as a VIP sales manager. Of course the clash of generations will happen once he gets to his new job. A new company that makes business online, something new and far from his traditional ways, but still some facts like management, leadership and responsibility doesn't get old. He still can show everybody one thing or two. No surprise that most of the staff in this place are young people, trying to learn about the field and their careers after college, the way the manage themselves and crisis when responsibilities and duties happen will show them how much need to learn.

This exercise is use basically to make fun of the situation of this young souls facing their daily basis at work and life. This is no major surprise as everybody has been there, done that, and same way we learned to walk and talk, we found the way to make it through. But when you get the other side of the coin, comparing their freshman situation versus the experience of a man that worked over 40 years in a company, went up the latter, got promoted and now experienced the glory of success and personal satisfaction, things looks so different, exposing the fact of how much we the young need to learn and listen to others, specially when they have and show more experienced in things that we might not. Sometimes proud takes over us and we close doors to opportunities to learn and improve in order to feel smart and capable, when actually admitting the fact that we don't know a thing will make us smarter.

And even when tendencies make an impact and define society by eras, somethings never get old, like dress codes, manners, patience, organization, listen, talk and empathizing with others, and even now technology makes easier to communicate in certain way theres nothing as effective as face to face conversation or try to make an impression in an interview well suited than just showing off as fashionable as possible. Some thing will never change or always be accepted and encourage in the same way they've been for decades. And this is the lesson the other major character in this story has to learn by first hand. A young woman facing a sudden success of her initiative in business. She is now the head and director of her own company. One that is expanding and growing faster than what she can handle, reason enough to turn her investor heads up to the idea of bringing an outsider for help.

And that brings us to the second part of the film, the exposition of the new roles of women in society. Long ago are those days when women were just raised to become housewives. Or go to the office work as secretaries or personal assistants. Nw they are the bosses. The run companies. Take the leadership and full fill as managers of hundreds. But this change comes with perks and cons. As turning sides could be easy to take adjustments and break traditions can't be as easy as it sounds. When a woman try to take control over business might be pointed as mother, girlfriends, sensitive, bossy, lack of character or nerves but with equal capacity as any man, they are proving they can handle corporations on their shoulders. This is leading to men to stay at home or share their kids custody. That switch of roles can be intimidating for some that see a man at home as less manly and a woman at work as less effective, it all goes to each one determination to shut mouths and prove how wrong that judgment is.

So in these days of online shopping, smart phones, home based jobs and and worldwide communication we still need to learn one thing or three about acceptance and racism, either if is by gender, age, religion, raze, sexual orientation, life style and still change our perspective about social classism to become a better society and work as a team where we can be able to listen and learn from experience with an open mind as much as we ask to them to prove new tendencies and life styles, and put ourselves in the loop to judge us the same way we do with others in order to identify our opportunities to improve. Then maybe actually we can have a good feeling about our lives and ourselves and definitely things will be better, not just like in the movies but using simple examples to go deeper and make an impact and real changes.

JOHNNY DEPP....A Dark Pirate

Si de personificar los mas raros, obscuros, perturbados, fantásticos, emotivos, inimaginables personajes se tratara, no podríamos pensar en alguien mas adepto y que encaje perfecto que John Christopher Deep II, un actor norteamericano que a sus ya 52 años nos ha brindado una lista de películas que no podríamos categorizar sino como visones únicas con interpretaciones tan amplias como únicas, lo cual lo ha ubicado en el gusto de un publico muy amplio en gustos y demografía. No así parecía en u natal pueblo de Owensboro, Kentucky, donde creció al lado de una mesera y un ingeniero civil, que lo llevo a moverse a mas de 20 diferentes lugares para decidir dejar la escuela y perseguir la música formando una banda de rock.

Es en esta etapa como músico que conoce al actor Nicolas Cage quien le sugiere cambiar de giro hacia la actuación, tras haberse casado con la hermanad de su baterista a tan solo 20 años, para divorciarse dos años después y uno mas tarde encontrarse comprometido con una actriz con la cual audiciones para su primer rol en cine, el cual no obtuvo orillando a la television donde formo parte de la serie "21 Jump Street" (1987-1991). Siendo su debut en la cinta de terror "Pesadilla en la calle del Infierno" (1984), lo cual en su momento no significara nada para su carrera mas ahora es parte de un culto de sus seguidores. Su gran debut vendría de la mano del director Tim Burton con el cual colaboraría en varias ocasiones posteriormente, pero en 1990 el mundo lo conocido y aun recuerda como "Edward Scissorshands", una obscura fantasia sobre un joven con manos de tijeras que vive enclaustrado por sus miedos y su considerada amenaza debido a su diferencia hasta que conoce a una joven de la cual se enamora y que sacara lo mejor de el para encontrar su diferencia como una ventaja y sacarle provecho. Una historia muy semejante al clásico del Jorobado de Notre Dame. Ademas del éxito obtenido, inicia una relación sentimental con su co protagonista, la actriz Wynona Ryder.

En 1993 protagonizaría el drama "What's eating Gilbert Grape", a lado de un entonces joven y desconocido Leonardo Di Caprio y Juliette Lewis, basado en la obra de teatro sobre un joven a cargo de su dishabilitado hermano tras la muerte de su madre, tratando de sobrevivir mediante la llegada de turistas en busca de acampar en la zona. Continuando en el ámbito dramático pero buscando explorar su distintivo gusto por peculiares y extraños personajes protagoniza "Ed Wood" (1994), filme en blanco y negro que narra la no muy popular carrera y vida del director de culto, y su muy peculiar vision, la cual hace obvia la participación del actor y su amigo el director Tim Burton.  Así mismo inicia una relación con la super modelo Kate Moss. Incursionando en el western protagoniza "Dead Man" (1995) dandole una vision mas psicodélica al genero con elementos surrealistas muy a su estilo y aunque la historia no presenta grandes sorpresas o profundidad es considerada una cinta de culto gracias a la vision del director Jim Jarmusch.

Tratando de aligerar su curriculum se involucra en la nueva adaptación del popular literario "Don Juan de Marco" (1994), una comedia romántica basada en la vida de un mujeriego que se auto asume como el mejor amante del mundo solo para adentrarnos en su cabeza como en su corazón en un viaje por su pueblo natal y el manicomio del cual parece haber huido. La cinta no tuvo el éxito esperado y es una de las menos populares en la carrera del actor pero en definitiva lo posiciono como un sex symbol de su generación y su popularidad se fue  a las nubes. Retomando mayor seriedad con los dramas protagoniza al lado del actor Al Pacino "Donnie Brasco" (1997), basada en la historia real de un detective trabajando encubierto con una e las familias mas importantes en la mafia de la ciudad de Nueva York. Sorpresivamente la cinta fue un éxito tanto en taquilla como en critica que le genero varias nominaciones en los premios mas reconocidos. Después de 4 años de relación con la modelo inicia otra con la actriz francesa Vanessa Paradis que conoce en su siguiente proyecto y que sera la afortunada con la cual tendrá dos hijos hasta su separación en el 2012.

También retomando su gusto por historias bizarras forma parte de "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998), una comedia negra donde dos doctores tratan de cubrir las noticias sobre el abuso de drogas, realizan un road trip que los lleva en un viaje por el desierto que bien podría ser su próxima noticia a cubrir. Lamentablemente la cinta no fue bien aceptada por el publico dada su confusa temática. Por ello y dando un giro en su carrera, el actor incursiona en el suspenso con "The Ninth Gate" (1999), narrando la búsqueda de un vendedor de libros por uno en especifico, el cual se dice tiene el secreto para invocar al diablo. Ni el actor ni la famosa vision del director Roman Polanski la salvaron del fracaso. Por ello el actor decide quitarse la espina y participa en otra cinta de suspenso, ahora nuevamente bajo la mano de su amigo Burton, "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), contando la famosa leyenda de Ichabod Crane un detective atormentado y su lucha por descifrar el misterio del llanero sin cabeza. creando un mundo obscuro pero con personajes entrañables, semejante a la vision animada del corto clásico de Disney, este si fue un rotundo éxito y un clásico en la lista del actor.

Continuando su racha dentro del genero del thriller protagoniza a lado de la actriz Charlize Theron la cinta "The Astronaut's wife" (1999), donde un joven astronauta embaraza a su esposa a su regreso de una misión solo para descubrir que algo extraño esta pasando con el y con su futuro retoño. Con una premisa muy similar al "Bebe de Rosemary" (1968), pero ubicada en el espacio, la cinta fue un fracaso total. Su siguiente proyecto no es un protagónico sino una participación secundaria, "Bífora night falls" (2000), basado en la novela domina y autobiográfica del poeta cubano y abiertamente gay Reinaldo Arenas, y que fuera reconocida en la critica independiente mas fuera de ella, fue desconocida. Su siguiente incursion se convertiría en otro clásico de su carrera "Chocolate"(2000), un romance dirigido por Lasse Hallstrom y co protagoniza Juliette Binoche contando la historia de una mujer que abre una tienda de chocolates para sobrevivir en una pequeña villa de Francia para ser cortejada por varios hombres, incluyendo el conde del pueblo pero que se enamora de un gitano por el cual deberá de luchar por su amor encontrar de las adversidades propias de la época. La cinta fue un éxito en taquilla, y amada por la critica que incluso la nomino a mejor cinta dicho año.

En su constante gusto por re interpretar curiosos personajes, ahora el turno del traficante de cocaina George Jung en "Blow" (2001), tratando de poner el dedo en el tema de la droga, y entender la psique de aquellos atras del negocio. Esta vez el resultado funciono mejor que sus anteriores intentos mas no a la altura de sus mayores logros. Regresando al lado obscuro y al suspenso interpreta al detective encargado de perseguir y cazar al famoso asesino en serio Jack, el Destripador, en "From Hell" (2001), basada en la novela grafica homonima y que trata de mostrar la famosa historia como un teoria de conspiración que involucro a un grupo de prostitutas. Dando un nuevo giro a su carrera participa como el villano de la historia en "Once upon a time in Mexico" (2003), la continuacion en la saga del mariachi, creacion del director mexicano Robert Rodriguez, donde esta vez el singular heroe es contratado por la CIA para derrocar a uno de los narcos mas buscados del pais. Sorpresivamente la cinta tuvo una buena respuesta para la peculiar vision de este director y su genero de accion a la mexicana.

Posteriormente formaría parte de un proyecto que lo caracterizaría por los años venideros, "Los piratas del Caribe" (2003), tratando de convertir la atracción en los parques Disney en una película, que cuenta la historia del capitán Jack Sparrow y sus aventuras a lado del joven Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) y Elizabeth Swann (Keira Nnightley), en esta ocasión por descifrar la maldicion del perla negra, el antiguo barco de Sparrow, ahora al mando de Barbossa quien transforma a su tripulación en esqueletos por la noche. La cinta fue un éxito moderado en esta ocasión pero aun así genero suficiente para dar luz verde a una trilogía: "Piratas del caribe: Dead Man's Chest" (2006) y "Piratas del caribe: el fin del mundo" (2007), las cuales fueron un ridiculo y excesivo éxito en taquilla que lo compraron para protagonizar una cuarta entrega alejada de la historia central de la trilogía pero basad en su personaje, "Pirates of the caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011). Así, buscando refugio en cintas mas pequeñas se involucra en "Secret Window" (2004), un thriller psicológico basado en una historia del aclamado escritor Stephen King, donde un escritor se recluye en su vieja cabaña en el bosque tras sufrir del abandono de su esposa y sufrir de bloqueo de escritor y toparse con un granjero que comparte la historia que una vez escribo y que curiosamente se parece a la misma que el autor esta escribiendo ahora. La cinta tuvo criticas encontradas y paso sin pena ni gloria por la taquilla y fans del actor.

Regresando a lo suyo, biografías de personajes entrañables y no tan populares, estelariza "Finding Neverland" (2004), la historia del autor J.M. Barrie, creador de Peter Pan, y que cuenta la vida del escritor que lo llevo a insprarse en sus propios eventos para escribir la famosa novela y el personaje tener reflejos de el mismo. La cinta fue un éxito en taquilla y critica que le llevo nominación a su elenco y película  en los mayores premios. Ahora es inclusive una adaptación musical en Broadway.  Reuniéndose con su amigo Burton tras años sin trabajar juntos, adoptan la famosa novela infantil "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), donde el actor tiene la oportunidad de crear una de sus únicas interpretaciones al dar vida al peculiar dueño de la fabrica, Willy Wonka, un extrovertido personaje que explora las personalidades de los niños para dotar al mejor de ellos con el secreto detrás de sus productos y el mundo fantástico que ha creado dentro de ella y que tal vez sea real o no.

Incursionando en la animación, obviamente bajo la mano de Burton, presta su voz al protagonista de "Corpse Bride" (2005), un joven de una antigua villa europea que al ser rechazado por su prometida tira el anillo a un árbol que resucita como una joven fallecida que se proclama como la nueva prometida del joven. Esta fábula refleja la lucha del amor entre dos mundos opuestos y el choque de elementos diferentes para sus protagonistas que deben solventar para encontrar el amor verdadero. nada mal para llevarla a ser considerada una de las mejores cintas animadas de la época. Continuando con su mancuerna Deep-Burton, ambos se adentran en nuevas aguas con "Sweeney Todd" (2007), su primer musical, uno muy obscuro y acode par la vision de ambos, basado en la historia de un barbero y asesino serial Ingles para convertir los cadaveres de sus víctimas en pay de carne. Nuevamente su peculiar vision los llevo a multiples nominaciones. Tratando de volver al genero de acción y gangsters se pone al mando del director Michael Mann en "Enemigos Públicos" (2009), una cinta que fue un rotundo fracaso en el verano de ese año al retratar los últimos años del famoso gangster John Dillinger en la época de la gran depresión asi como su relación con la mujer que ama y el detective del FBI acechándolo.

"Alice in Wonderland" (2010), seria su siguiente incursion en el mundo Disney quien tras los anteriores éxitos no esta dispuesta a dejarlo ir, y bien les valió la inversion ya que la peculiar nueva vision del clásico fue un éxito descomunal en taquilla, que ahora esta en filmación de su secuela para el 2016, regresando el actor en su papel del sombrerero loco. Después, y a lado de Angelina Jolie, protagoniza "The Tourist" (2010), un triller romántico sobre una espía que huye de la policía francesa para toparse en su tren a Venecia con un matemático con el cual iniciara un romance que los pondrá en medio de una cacería. Nada sorprendente y al final aburrido, dado el perfil de sus protagonistas y sus peculiares elecciones. Así que mejor regresa a la animación con "Rango" (2011), una fábula sobre un lagarto que es puesto en libertad en el desierto  para infiltrarse en un mundo muy al estilo del viejo oeste y fungir como héroe al rescatar al pueblo de la tiranía de sus opresores. Excelente cinta familiar que fallo en encantar a su publico infantil pero deleito a los adultos.

Otro nuevo paso lo lleva a fungir como productor en su nueva casa productora, y su primer proyecto "The Rum Diaries" (2011), la cual protagoniza sobre un escritor que ha sido incapaz de vender un libro por lo cual es transferido a Puerto Rico donde se involucrara con una serie de personajes incluyendo una joven de la cual se enamorara y que le mostrara una nueva vision de la vida y de el mismo que calvez lo inspire o destruya. Al igual que en su historia, el actor no logro vender este proyecto, siendo el primero de una serie de fracasos que marcaran el declive de su carrera, mientras que el mismo tiempo se ve en problemas legales al ser demandado por un doctor que alega haber sido agredido por sus guardaespaldas y por otro lado por fin contrae nupcias con la actriz Amber Heard con quien co protagonizo la cinta. En el verano del 2012, regresa con "Dark Shadows", reuniéndose con su amigo Burton para adaptar la popular telenovela sobre una familia de vampiros. Desgraciadamente la cinta llega en un momento muy tarde para el publico cansado de adaptaciones vampirescas conviertiendose en otro sonado fracaso. En 2013, interpreta la adaptación del popular programa "El llanero solitario" interpretando a Toto, su fiel amigo pelirroja, en un blockbuster de la casa Disney y que fallo en generar taquilla, siendo otro y mayor fracaso en la carrera del actor que llevaba el peso de la cinta en sus hombros.

En 2014 incursiona en la ciencia ficción con "Trascendence", un proyecto que narra los eventos sobre un científico y visionario que logra transferir su mente a una maquina, haciendo omnipresente y capaz de manipular todo el sistema poniendo en cuestión su lado humano tentado por el poder adquirido. Desgraciadamente otro fallido intento para el actor que cada vez se aleja de su popularidad en critica y taquilla. A finales de año participa en "Into the woods", basada en la popular obra de broadway y que a pesar de haber sido un éxito al contar una version mas real y adulta de clásicos infantiles, no se le atribuye al actor pues este solo tiene menos de 10 minutos en pantalla. Este año lo vimos en "Mortdecai" (2015), una comedia con un gran elenco como Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, que trata de contar las peripecias de un ladrón de arte y su estilo de vida mientras lidia con la policía, mujeres y colegas. El resultado es una cinta que falla en contar su historia y definir su estilo, lo cual genero algunas de las peores criticas en la carrera del actor y una de sus peores taquillas en años.

Tras esta racha de fracasos y con su carrera pendiendo de un hilo, este mes lo vemos en "Black Mass" (2015), una cinta de crimen basada en la semi biografia de Whitney Bulger, el popular mafioso de Boston y uno de los mas buscados por el FBI, y que esta generando excelentes criticas por la interpretacion del actor asi como por el retrato de su vida que la cinta logra y que podria regresarlo a su estatus como actor y celebridad y con el apoyo de la critica y de sus fans pareciera factible, regresandolo a sus raices en biografias de gangsters que tan bien le sientan, y con "Yoga Hosers" (2016), a estrenarse el proximo año bajo la vision del geek Kevin Smith, veremos si esta comedia de terror sobre un padre y su hija atrapados en una lucha contra los mounstros que han sido desatados por un mal antiguo en el pueblo que habitan. Veremos si lo logran a la par que la carrera del actor logra salir adelante o es vencida por las mounstrosas malas decisiones de los ultimos años.