Edge of Heaven

Edge of Heaven is definetly one of the best movies I have ever watched. What I liked most about it is how real it is. Nowadays when we think about movies and stories, we think of fairy tale endings.

One thing that I could never really understand is why movies never seem to be real, even though they are sometimes based on true events. The only reason I could come up with is because movies and in other forms of art we are able to control the outcome, we create a world in which we did live in.

I also liked how in your face the movie was. Nowadays we seem to find movies which are either too conservative or too out there. The In your face, this is really how it is, really stood out to me. I actually believed in what I was watching for the first time.

At the end of the movie I made a comment; I said "are you serious what a horrible ending," and I think it was julie who said "this is real life." It was real life.

Istanbul's Choice

At first, I will be completely honest, I was not look forward to reading this paper/article. See I'm not much a reader and the reading was a bit on the long side.

After procrastinating a bit, I got myself to start reading it and was not very pleased. I am not the most intellectual of the bunch if you get what I mean. I was sitting reading and wondering what am I supposed to be reflecting on. And then out of now where I was hit with a suprise.

This surprise was the last sentence of the reading. It goes "Above all, we have to hope for a new politics of openness."

Universal Words. Very applicable almost everywhere around the world. It made me wonder; we (The USA) are known for our democracy; our humainty; and our openness. But are those comparasions accurate.

If I turn on FOX NEWS right now I will see everything but fair and balanced journalism. I will see so called objective journalists talking down the President of the United States.

If I switch the channel to MSNBC I will see the very same thing; except the target of the talking down to are those who identify themselves with the right wing conservative America.

How can we in any way be considered mature, open, and democratic if we, as a country, not just just any country, but The Super Power, the "model nation" still do not have politics of openess of which we preach.

Its probably selfish of me to reflect upon our country when we are studying Germany but this article made me "hope for a new politics of openess."

Corpses Having Sex In Berlin Exhibition

May 7, 2009- Controversial German anatomy artist Gunther von Hagens is once again facing flak for unveiling a work showing two corpses having sexual intercourse.The artwork will be part of von Hagens' latest plastination exhibition 'Cycle of Life' in Berlin.

The artist defends the exhibit saying that it combines the two greatest taboos of sex and death and is a lesson in biology. He insists that it is "not meant to be sexually stimulating".

Politicians and church representatives are angry at the exhibit, and have called for it to be withdrawn. They have pronounced it pornographic and an insult to the dead.

"This couple is simply over the top, and it shouldn't be shown," the Guardian quoted Alice Strover, an MP for the Green party, as saying."Love and death are obvious topics for art, but I find it quite disgusting to use them in this way," said Fritz Felgentreu an MP for the Social Democrats.Von Hagens developed the plastination method several years ago after discovering a method for preserving bodies by replacing their fat and water deposits with injections of silicon, which then harden.

His exhibitions have travelled across the world.His most popular exhibits included corpses playing chess, high jumping, and horse riding. He has already shown a dead pregnant woman and foetuses at various stages of development earlier.

According to von Hagens, the man and woman consented to appear in a sexual pose.

-BigNewsNetwork