“One of the best things capitalism created was immigration. Taking ignorant, backward people out of their small isolated towns and lives and throwing them onto the world’s stage.”

Vladmir Lenin

February, 2009

Capitalism as an economic system has its basis on trades and ownership of capital throwing people desperately on a search for a spot onto the shining stage of global market. Wherever you may be, capitalism is the global economy – regardless of small countries which lay aside in this dynamic scenario, though – dealing with means to produce wealth and controlling it: the production system.

The Industry Revolution set in motion a chain of events which led Capitalism to what it is nowadays, much more dynamic and global. Aftermath, Globalization stretched its long fingers through the globe, leading people to cross the oceans to work in the multimarket, banks and thousands of others overseas multinationals. Undoubtedly Capitalism has promoted economical and social growth in a way that had never been thought possible. Despite of that, many problems have arisen throughout the years and many thinkers would say that is due to Capitalism system. Some of those problems would be: unfair and inefficient distribution of wealth and power; a tendency toward market monopoly or oligopoly; imperialism and various forms of economic and cultural exploitation; and phenomena such as social alienation, inequality, unemployment, and economic instability. Alienation of entire countries, not only regarding economical, but also social alienation, is the cause to make those people to enter in the world’s stage from the backdoors, reminding the protagonists that the show should include them.

Nowadays, thinkers and experts are contesting the current system, as they say the system is failing, maybe so, for everything has its beginning and fall. Even though, the Capitalism has been inherently in our lives, people are so attached to the system, in a so intrinsically way, that our own personal concepts, our own state of mind, in a single word: the way we perceived the world has been totally ruled by the system, thus a change in this pattern would take a long while to take effect.

MovieReview

Miss Potter

“Miss Potter is one of the sweetest, most charming and beautiful movies of the year.” – Jeffery Lyons, NBC’s Reel Talk

Very much early than the worldly famous teenager wizard, the surname Potter was also famous and yet fantasy-related. With a series of 23 children’s books, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), and his beloved talking animals, such as the naughty Peter Rabbit, has enchanted a generation of children and yet had become one of the most well-succeeded writer of literature in history. Now, Chris Noonan has gifted the audience with a movie as so charming and sweet as Beatrix’s tales.

The plot pictures flashbacks of Beatrix’s childhood, beautifully mixed with her current time, at the age of thirty’s, as to explain Beatrix personality. At the time when most young women of her class aimed only to make a good marriage, Beatrix became an icon. She grew up in the British aristocracy of 1860s, which definitely shaped Beatrix into a introspective person, magically performed by Renée Zellweger. The flashbacks, somehow connected to present moments, are responsible to provide the audience enough material to get into Beatrix’s world, inviting us to dive into her mind and heart. Beatrix used to draw and paint – and talk – with the animals since her childhood, and then made up stories for them. Most of the characters of her later works were by the publishing time already created, which happened only when she met Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor), her publisher and later, her fiancé. Norman Warne was the youngest of two publisher brothers, who desperately wanted to show he was fit for the job, which made his brothers gifted him with they described as “bunny book”. Norman then, took the chance and turned Peter Rabbit and his mates into a success. Later they grow a strong relationship of first, friendship and later, sincere love.

Noonan main focus is to draw the film as beautiful and sweet as Beatrix’s work itself, creating by far a romantic atmosphere powered by the delightful movie photography and animated animals who literally come to life, a mix of traditional filmmaking and animation. It’s wonderful to see Jemina Puddle-Duck swinging her cotton-tail in an infant-like behaviour tricking with her painter. Useless to speak about the score: majestically representing all the feelings and soul of the movie. Summing up: Song, photography, light, camera angle, costume are all one single unity in this film to power it with the sweetest and cutest story of Miss Potter.