Comments about the film "Rain Man"

This post is dedicated to comment about the film that we saw in class: Rain Man.
It is a 1988 dramatic film directed by Barry Levinson and It tells the story of a selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his brother, Raymond, of whose existence he knew nothing and who is an autistic savant.

The movie stars Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbit and Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbit. The film won four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards (1989), including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor in a leading role for Hoffman.

The official trailer of the film is shown below

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening

I'm not into painting as much as I am into music, but for this post, I'll take Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, by Salvador Dalí, as an example of those paintings that I consider are one of the most intriguing and disturbing but yet fascinating pieces of art.

According to the experts, this painting (as many of the works of Salvador Dalí) has made an enormous contribution to the surrealism movement and its consolidation in the history of art.

There is some debate about the surrealism name, there are some people who argue that the name itself has a sub-prefix connotation, and represents the total opposite of what the movement was about. A few years ago I attended to a surrealism conference, and the speaker said that the correct name, at least in spanish, should be suprarealismo, but I'm aware that some people call it superrealismo.

Anyway, the painting, as I already have shown it, has a lot of symbolism, and many interpretations, which explain the painting as a consequence of the historical context, and many other causes, but I have always liked to think of the meaning by myself, and just get lost into the colors and shapes.

I mean, the painting is gorgeous, and though staring at a painting in the computer monitor is nothing compared to what staring at a real painting is, I was really shocked when I discovered Salvador Dalí and this particular painting. It evokes sensations like fear and despair, but it is impossible to not continue discovering details and think about them.

For example, if you look closely you will see a bee around a pomegranate at the bottom of the painting, but the magnificence of the painting is the tigers threatening the woman in her sleep, while one of them is coming out of a fish, which at the same time is coming out of a giant pomegranate.

But the landscape is even more interesting, you can see a distorted elephant walking into what looks like the sea, but the elephant itself is quite creepy, with those long and fragile legs.

Finally, the whole painting represents what the tittle suggests: a moment, that's what makes the painting so atracctive, you can feel the dynamics of it, and get involved in that instant.

As you see, I didn't write my interpretation, this is just a description, I'll let you think of it as whatever you want it to be, and let yourself make your own.

- Miguel Ángel Benítez Torreblanca