A book titled “The Two Faces of Humanity,” produced by public broadcaster EBS, was published recently. You may think the title of the book seems similar to the book called “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” because the title suggests two opposite sides of people. However, “The Two Faces of Humanity” shows how people change the way they behave according to the situations they face.What do you think controls human actions? Is it one’s own will or the circumstances we face? Researchers have participated in many debates and experiments about this question for a long time. The movie, “T
Do you enjoy coffee and cigarettes? We can easily come in contact with coffee and cigarettes in our daily life. Coffee vending machines are easily found in many buildings and even on the street, while we can find many cafs around us. Likewise, cigarettes are easily found in all stores. Also, wherever we go, we can see many people drinking coffee or smoking. There is a movie dealing with coffee and cigarettes. It is called Coffee and Cigarettes.Coffee and Cigarettes is an omnibus film that puts eleven sequences together to form a brief story: Strange to Meet You, Twins, Somewhere in California,
Do you know the meaning of “white night”? White night is the phenomenon of the sun not going down below the horizon, at a high latitude, in summer. In the novel White Night, two characters’ lives look like a white night.Ryo-ji and Yoki-ho experience their first love with each other. However, one day Ryo-ji witnesses a scene in which his father has sex with Yoki-ho, who has been forced into prostitution by her mother. He then kills his father by stabbing him with scissors and kills his mother to conceal his crime. Yoki-ho kills her mother by opening a gas pipe and letting the gas leak. The murd
))((. Can you imagine what it means? It just looks like a typical emoticon that we often use on the Internet. It looks like little birds singing "caw-caw"; it also looks like two fishes heading in opposite directions. However, the youngest character in Me and You and Everyone We Know thinks that it means "back and forth." There are lots of such marks that are so modern and creative like this mark in the movie, making it seem a little bit strange and phantasmal. However, as time goes by, you will naturally get into it more. Me and You and Everyone We Know is a wild-eyed observation of the wa
In 2003, Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American novelist, appeared in the American literary world and created a great sensation through his work, The Kite Runner. His second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also became a topic of conversation. Khaled Hosseini portrays the Afghan’s gloomy situation through two women’s miserable destinies and self-sacrifice.The two women, Mariam and Laila, are left in the swirl of war and come to meet each other as the wives of one man. Mariam is an extramarital daughter of a wealthy businessman and is forced to marry 40-year-old Rasheed at the age of 15. However, M
Do you know the Erasmus Programme? The Erasmus Programme is a European Union student exchange program. Through the program, many European students attend a European university on exchange scholarships. In the film The Spanish Apartment, Xavier, the main character, goes to Spain from France through the Erasmus Program and comes to live in an apartment where people from various cultures and different ways of thinking coexist. The movie title The Spanish Apartment is French slang meaning a place where anything can happen and every law is violated in the chaotic state of mixed cultures. Reflecting
In this world, some people living in rich countries worry about their health and start to go on a diet to lose weight. On the contrary, other people including many people in Africa, worry about starvation and lack of food. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), one child under ten years old dies every five seconds in some African, Asian, and Latin American countries.Why Are Half of the World's People on the Verge of Starvation?, written by Jean Ziegler, explains two causes of starvation. The first reason of starvation is due to sudden crises. For exampl
A road movie is a movie about people finding their identity or meeting new people through their travels. The Gazette would like to introduce a road movie to you called Da Capo.Da Capo deals with the story of a lack of love. In current society, there are many boys who are abandoned by their parents and also many children who run away from home because of their parents' remarriage. The movie shows a meeting between an abandoned boy and a girl who left her home due to her father's remarriage. Yesu, meaning Jesus, is an 8 year old abandoned boy who is found in a horse barn at a church's child-care