Mauricio Redoles: Chilean experimental musician

The first time i listened to Redoles in the radio, was around 12 years old and couldn't understand very much his music, honestly i did not liked it... when i was more old i started to understood a bit more of his music: it was full of cultural contents, about the people, the Yungay neighborhood, the politic happenings, methaphoric messages, sarcasm and black humor. The music of Redoles can be very confusing, at the time he mixes Andes folk with rock and all kind of rare music, with perturbing lyrics, poetic interventions, and so on. I really wanted to see Redoles at alive to see his curious performance. Finally i went to one of his concerts in early march of this year, in the FeCh House.

I really liked it, despite that the sound wasn't really clean, but the performance of Redoles was really amazing with lyric changes and curious monologues between one song and other. Redoles mean to me a new way to music compose, art exhibition and social content. Its hard to interpret the music and lyric at the beggining but once that you think about it maybe you'll find an interesting art, full of things and symbols of the chilean daily life.

My Favourite Movie

My favourite movie of all is "Life is Beautiful" (La Vita è bella) by the italian director and actor Roberto Benigni.

It's about an italian-jewish man named Guido (Roberto Benigni) who fell in love with a woman of the italian fascist aristocracy named Dora and escapes with her to create a new family, getting a son named Giosue, just a little before the start of the World War II. The fascist gobernment decides to deport some of the jewish population to a nazis concentration camp, this decition affects directly to Guido, his uncle and his son, so they were deported into a train to germany. Also Dora, that is a non-jewish woman, decides to go into the same train with her family and run the same destiny.

Along the movie Guido makes Giosue to believe that the concentration camp is just a hard and funny game in what they have to collect points to win a war tank. Dora is in a nearby concentration camp sector for women, and is resisting the Holocaust beside Guido and Giosue. Finally Guido is murdered by a german soldier just after he hides Giosue of the nazis. The next day the nazi concentration camp is invaded by the USA imperialist forces: Giosue thinks that the tanks are the prize of the game that Guido told him about. In the way of the tank caravan Giosue meets his mother in the way.
Its a very emotional movie that shows how we can resist the bad situations with the attitude of happiness. Some people says that is a fake movie that doesn't show the real hard time of the Holocaust, but i love how the movie can show the Holocaust in a different way of the traditional sad and seek WWII movie, it can make you feel from very happy to sad, that's why i like this movie: a different point of view; different emotions.
I saw this movie when i was child in 1997 and i didn't understood it very well. Anyway i have seen it lot of times more and i ever have new elements to check and reflex about the film. I think of this movie as a Life Lesson: an art.