Well, for a movie-lover like me, I am really ashamed to confess that I only saw Apocalypse Now for the first time a couple of hours ago. Obviously, it is a brilliant movie. But I'm not so happy only because the version that is available in DVD is REDUX, and not the original one. I did not saw the version that is trully a classic. Despite the fact the new one is yet a brilliant movie, REDUX lacks something because of its lenght. Some scenes are not relevant enough to justify a new release, like the scene of the French family living in the middle of the jungle (and, in consequence, in the middle of the war). It does not damage the film, but it would not be harmful if it was not there in the final cut too.

But the better thing happened just after I squeezed the STOP button of the DVD player. Everybody knows that Brazil is really the country of the soap-opera. Well, you can say Mexico is in that category too, but Brazilian TV produces better ones, in every and each aspect you can imagine. Brazilian soap-operas are yet the better ones of the world. That does not mean that we are not producing rubbish. We are. Many of the soap-operas being produced today are garbage. Well, that said, here it is: just when I turned off the DVD a scene of a soap-opera was on my TV screen. It was a beautiful moment, a really remarkable one: just after finishing the appreciation of a astounding piece of art I was in front of the most precise example of the human ability to create "cultural" garbage. The scene of that soap-opera was so bad that I just can't explain: obvious edition, poor soundtrack, idiot plot, horrible acting, annoying camera framing. It was one of the worst things I have watched on TV in my whole life.

But, like I said on the beginning, I was grateful to watch that rubbish on that exact moment. The contrast between something really good and something noticeably bad was so perfect that I could not avoid an uncontrollable wish to post this journal. Well, I'm feeling better. It is told.