I am not the biggest fan of heavy or angst movies, mostly because more often than not, I cannot stomach gruesome scenes and painful emotions. To me, watching movies is an escape route from my own world, therefore as”real” as the movie should be made, I would at least hope that it would not make me more painful than necessary. But I can see why Te Doy Mis Ojos must be made like this. Sometimes we cover our eyes even when the truth is right there, from things on a more personal scale like irreversible, broken relationships to social problems like inequality on all sorts of levels, so to pour cold water over the audience’s heads, Icíar Bollaín has chosen to attack the domestic violence issue face to face.
It???s hard to surpass the uncle, did Napoleon???s nephew rebuild the empire and bring prosperity to France?
First, the superficial prosperity Napoleon III’s move to rebuild the French Empire naturally provoked panic among the ministers of the interior and other European…