The Culture Enthusiast

Source "Melinda and Melinda" starts with four friends arguing over dinner if life is in its essence comic or tragic. One of them begins telling a story and two of the friends shape it in a comedy and in a drama respectively. The movie is therefore half comedy, half drama.  The movie seems to ask: is it possible to tell the same story...

Source “Why has God done this to me? What have I done to be thus used?” Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 8 "The Journal" Many people hated reading that dreadfully long story about a guy stuck in an island. But what Robinson Crusoe lacks in action, it makes up for in heroism. Think: his ship sank, he is the only survivor. His reaction is...

Hegel's Vacation - René Magritte Source "My latest picture began with the question: how to paint a picture with a glass of water as the subject? I drew a number of glasses of water, a line always appeared in these drawings. Then this line became deformed and took the form of an umbrella. Then this umbrella was put into the glass, and finally...

Let’s face it, we all have some movies that are so bad we are afraid to admit we love them. Here are the movies that I hope nobody finds on my Dvd shelf: Super Mario Brothers Imdb rating: 3.8 Even though many people played the classic video game, not that many people watched Mario portrayed by Bob Hoskins. I recently watched this with...

Everybody's first Austen book Source I was at a book store the other day and I saw two different people holding copies of “Pride and Prejudice”. Now that I consider myself an Austen reader (which, let’s face it, it’s no big deal, she only wrote six novels) I look down on people who only read "Pride and Prejudice". “They’re not real fans!” –...

J. M. W. Turner was an English painter from the Romantic period. Here's some interesting information about him: 1) According to his will, he wished to be buried in his painting Dido building Carthage, considered by him his masterpiece. Dido building Carthage - Turner Source 2) His body of work is huge: almost 1.000 oil paintings and about 10.000 drawings and watercolors. 3) To...