My mother used to tell her five children that if a person has a book, they have a friend. That maxim came to mind when I read this thoughtful (anonymous) essay by a NI1 student.
BOOKS and CINEMA
I’ve always loved reading and watching films. I
began to read when I was a child…
I used to visit my aunts and in their house, exactly in the
living-room there was a cupboard where they had a magazine collection
called Reader’s Digest.
Do you know it? I often borrowed them.
I remember that they had a lot of romantic novels
and I quickly read it but there was one special issue.
I cried so much that my mother was worried and she told me: “I
don’t understand how you cry but you continue reading!!!”.
It’s very easy: I lived in the book! I was into the story or
the story was in me. Who knows!
It was a fabulous
experience because I could spend some time and not know what was
happening around me. That was how I began to love books. Now, I
spend some time in the bookshop
touching, choosing and also smelling books.
On the other hand, I also love watching films. I
like 50s American films with stars such as Ingrid Bergman, Bette
Davis, Montgomery Cliff, Paul Newman, Audrey and Katherine Hepburn,
among others. Now I often go to Monopol
Cinema
because it offers very interesting films, original version European
films with subtitles and I enjoy watching Juliette
Binoche, Christiane Thomas, Gabriel
Byre and Tim Robbins.
While I’m writing these words I can see that I
like classic and modern styles. I think that finally it’s
important, it’s specially important reading, watching and listening
to everything that makes us feel, everything that offers us
opportunities, possibilities to live better lives.
