O realizador Philip Gröning esperou quase 20 anos para ser autorizado a entrar num mosteiro cartuxo, em França, para filmar o dia-a-dia dos monges. Em 1984 este realizador alemão solicitou permissão á ordem Cartuxa para filmar o interior do mosteiro, mas o acesso foi-lhe negado, como o é a toda a gente. Foi-lhe respondido que ainda era cedo. Em 2001 tinha chegado a altura certa mas, Gröning deveria ir sozinho para o mosteiro, não poderia usar luz artificial nem adicionar música ao filme. O resultado final consegue-se deslumbrar um bocadinho neste trailer. Pessoalmente, fascinou-me as imagens e a forma como me senti fora deste mundo quando vi pela primeira vez este trailer numa sala de cinema.
“For 90 minutes, the viewer will be confronted with the monastery within. An object in time. I have had the possibility to shoot inside the monastery for 4 months and to live in a cell like a monk while doing so. I was to fully share the monks life. And alongside - a work such as the other monks work - a film was to be made.” - Philip Gröning.
(Não consegui arranjar as legendas do trailer em PT... so sorry! Quem entender Nederlandse aproveite!)
Olha a "bela" ideia! Estes americanos é que a sabem toda... ou não!!
Best Roommate Ever "I’ve heard that it costs about $25,000 to keep one criminal in jail for a year. And jails are overcrowded, so that expense goes up if you ship your convicts to other states where they have extra prison space, as California does.This gave me an idea for a business you can do at home: Convert your spare bedroom into a prison cell and charge the government $25,000 per year to house a convict. You could probably put two convicts in one spare room and earn $50,000 per year, minus whatever it costs to feed them slop. The government would have to set some standards for these home prisons. Obviously you’d need to enclose the entire room with bars, add a little toilet, and install a surveillance camera. Government officials could monitor the home prisons over the Internet, just to make sure you’re abusing the prisoners enough. I imagine a big problem with home prisons is that prisoners would talk their way out, as in “Can I just watch Boston Legal with the family? I promise I’ll go right back to my cell.” Having two prisoners in a cell would be problematic if you had kids in the house. Sooner or later the kids are going to see something that will scar them for life. “Daddy, why is the one prisoner praying to the other one?” Home prisons in Texas would be the most fun of all, especially if you had a death row inmate and you were allowed to execute him yourself. This wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but you can’t tell me it wouldn’t be a hoot for hunters who enjoy shooting large mammals for entertainment. “I’ll come to bed in an hour, honey. I have to shoot Carl at midnight.” I suppose another problem is that neighbors would start bragging and comparing their prisoners. You’d get a lot of “Oh, so your prisoner only wounded a guy? Well, I suppose all the good ones were taken.”
