Podcast: 30 Years as a Slave

                                                         
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This article talks about Guadalupe Pérez Castillo, a woman who is beginning to learn to live in freedom now, at the age of 43 after 30 years of captivity, working as a slave. Her story began in Las Agujas, a small town in Mexico where she sold fruit at the age of 10 to help her poor family. One day, a woman came to Pérez's family looking for a babysitter for her children, in exchange, she would pay Guadalupe and her mother agreed but the girl wanted to study and to have a career. When she arrived at the woman's home, she was forced to do all the houseworks but she didn't get paid and there wasn't a bed for her; she also tried to escape several times but she just could speak her town's dialect so she always came back. She also was molested and beaten by the lady's husband and they threatened to kill her. They stole 30 years of her life from her. Now, the woman has been in therapy for some time.

Woody Allen, a cinema philosopher

                                                             Woody Allen

Woody Allen was born in 1935 in New York, is an actor, author, filmmaker, comedian, playwright, and musician. His career was started in the 50s writing little scripts for television. He's best known for his cinematography and for his average of making movies: almost one film a year. His best movies are "Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Hannah and her Sisters" and also others important films. He won four Oscars: in 1978 for "Annie Hall" for best directing and best original Screenplay; in 1987 for "Hannah and her Sisters" for best original Screenplay and in 2012 for "Midnight in Paris", always for original Screenplay. So we understand that his screenplays are awesome because of his biting humor and for his passion for philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis and European cinema. The majority of his movies are milestones of cinema also thanks to the women he met and married in life who were his inspirations, especially Diane Keaton, considered the biggest love of his life, in fact "Annie Hall" was devoted to her (Annie is her second name and Hall is her real surname). An other woman who inspired him was Mia Farrow but I think the best inspiration was Diane Keaton because thanks to her he made his best movies and wrote his best screenplays.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a scene from "Annie Hall" (1977).

The main theme of his movies is love but we mustn't consider his films just like "love stories" because they're more than a simple love story, He also puts in his movies philosophy and literature's references ispiring on one of his idols, Ingmar Bergman, who inspired him for his dramatic movie Interiors (1978)..


Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a cult scene from "Manhattan" (1979).

That's just a part of his awesome cinematography because if we had to talk about all his works we should have more time, We can say his movies consacrates him as one of the best filmmaker of all time,