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Hei! (Eng. Hi!)
Today we are going to write about our favourite online series titled ,,SKAM''. Have you ever heard about it? Perhaps yes, because it's one of the most popular and most viewed by teenagers series of recent months.
It is a Norwegian TV and Internet series, the social drama about the contemporary life of teenagers from Hartvig Nissen in Oslo - this sentence is a definition, but for us it is something more than this.
Our favourite characters are Isaak and Chris. SKAM teaches us Norwegian traditions, for example, what Russ is. It shows how the real friendship looks. The main characters are 5 girls. We accompany them from their first meeting. They always help other friends. If one of them has a problem, the rest of the group don't desert her, but they support her. In spite of the differences, their friendship is very strong. It teaches us tolerance and acceptance. They don't mind if someone has a different sexual orientation, faith, appearance or financial status.There are: Isaak, Even, Eskild - homosexuals, Sana - an Islamite, Vilde - she does not accept her body, she thinks she is too fat.
In SKAM there are a lot of romantic stories. The first season is about Eva and Jonas. They have arguments. Will they be together? Watch and see!
We send our love to everyone from Norway :)
Nice watching!
By: Emilia Anczarska, Barbara Kisiel and Anna Ostrowska from Michałowice, Poland
FILM REVIEW - “PAY IT FORWARD”
By Ana Rita Guerrra, Lamego, Portugal
The movie is about Trevor, a 11 years old boy that lives with his mother Arlene. She is an alcoholic but she doesn´t assume that to her son and is always promising him that she will change, which clearly never happens and so Trevor suffers a lot when he sees her drinking.
At the beginning of the new school year, the new Social Studies teacher named Eugene Simonet asks the class to think about something they can do to change the world.
In the next class, the students present their works and most of them are suitable for seventh grade students. However, when Trevor presents his idea everybody is surprised because his plan “Pay it forward” consists in: a person does a favour for three people, asking each of them to "pay the favour forward" by doing favours for three other people, and so on, along a branching tree of good deeds.
On his way home, Trevor observes a group of beggars and decides to take one of them, Jerry, to his house where he gives him food and some money to buy clothes for a job interview. Trevor tells him his plan and Jerry does his part by helping someone else.
The next person the boy decides to help was his teacher Eugene because he feels lonely and sad and so Trevor tries to join him with his mother by tricking them into a romantic dinner date. They start to fall in love but when Richy, her alcoholic ex-husband, appears she forgives and goes back to him. Trevor and Arlene argue about that and she slaps him in a fit of anger and so the boy runs away from home. Arlene asks Eugene to help her find her son and the two adults are brought together again.
The next person being helped is his mother and Trevor gets her to reconcile with her own mother, his grandma, and to stop drinking.
A reporter who has already been helped by the current, curious with the fact, asked to make an interview with Trevor where he said a lot of things that make us think about how simple acts can change another person’s life.
The film ends in an unexpected and shocking way.
In my opinion, this film is very touching because it shows that if a little kid can be determined to change the world with little things and to help others without thinking only of himself, everyone can and should do the same. I love this movie and I recommend it to everyone.
FILM REVIEW - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
By Claúdia Alves e Flávia Leonor, Lamego, Portugal
"A lesson of love" (2001), "Window of the soul" (2001), "Strings" (2014) and “The Fault in Our Stars” (2014) are some of our favourite films. They are all about people, abled, disabled and sick people, their emotions, love and the meaning of life.
The one chosen is “The fault is our stars”. The film is an American romantic drama film based in a book with the same name written by John Green and directed by Josh Boone.
It tells the story of two teenagers who had been diagnosed with cancer, called Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort.
Hazel has terminal thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. So, she wears a nasal cannula connected to an oxygen tank everywhere she goes. Augustus, a charming teen, lost a leg due to bone cancer but has since then apparently been cancer-free. As a result of this cancer, a prosthesis was fitted.
There is also another character: Isaac, played by Nat Wolff, is Augustus’ best friend with eye cancer who became blind.
Grace and August met each other in a support group for people with cancer and fell in love.
In our opinion, this film portrays real life. The world is an unjust place where suffering isn’t fairly distributed. It shows life and the shadow of death over the characters. Nowadays there is a lot of prejudice, and in Isaac’s case, who loses his second eye and at the same time his girlfriend, the question that comes to our mind is: Did Isaac’s girlfriend stop loving her because she stopped loving him or just because he became blind?
We recommend you to watch this film because it shows us that people are all different and life has to be lived to the fullest. We all need to find meaning in life and in the face of death, and accept people the way they are.
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Hi, my name is Natalia and I’m from Poland.
I would really like to tell you about the movie „The Perks of Being a Wallflower”. This film is from 2012, so it isn’t super new but it’s one of my favourites. It tells a story of Charlie (Logan Lerman) who just started going to high school. He is a really shy outsider, so I guess you can imagine that he can’t find friends easily, but somehow they find him. Sam (Emma Watson) and her stepbrother, Patrick (Ezra Miller) help Charlie with his family problems, drugs (don’t worry - he is not an addict) and getting over his friend’s suicide. It’s for sure not a typical movie about teenagers but I would still really recommend it (although you might cry while watching it).
By: Natalia Błońska
