REVIEW: "Gap Year"

In class we have watched the first episode of the series Gap Year. It is a British comedy-drama series about the adventures of a group of backpackers taking a trip through Asia. 

The first episode talks about Dylan and his old mate Sean, taking a Gap Year. At first, Sean thinks they are on vacation to escape from their life in the UK, though he totally preferred going to Thailand Dylan convinced him to go to China. But soon, he discovers that Dylan has booked the whole thing to get back with his ex-girlfriend, Lauren.

 Before finding Lauren, they meet the Americans, Ashley, Greg and May in toilets in Beijing. May has been sent to China by her mother to explore her Asian roots with the company of Ashley. Greg, who is English, travels with the girls just because he wants to protect them, but May doesn't like him. Dylan forgets his and Sean's money at the toilets, which Greg finds. Ashley, Greg and May initially take the money and begin spending it before unexpectedly finding Dylan and Sean again to return the money. They join together and head to a festival at the Great Wall of China. There they accidentally they enter into a fight and Sean scapes running and he gets lost and doesn't know how to return to the group because he has no phone and he is completely lost. Meanwhile, Dylan met Lauren at the party, but they didn't end well because Dylan was worried about Sean. 

Finally, the episode ends with Sean getting into the car of the person he fought with on the festival. But then it was too late and he wasn't able to get off the car.  

In my opinion the Gap Year series tries to show people that traveling is not as great and easy as we think it is. Going on an adventure as backpacking is very dangerous and also not as fun as we think. As we can see in this series they have some problems as losing their money, getting into a fight, also being lost or with bad company. Dylan and Sean were not happy because Sean wanted to travel to Thailand and Dylan because he understands that he has wasted a good opportunity to travel with his best friend but he decided to focus on his ex-girlfriend. Also, we can see that May is not happy with his mothers intention of discovering more of the Asian people and culture because Chinese people doesn't like her for being American and not speaking Chinese. 

The Physician, NOAH GORDON

The Physician is a novel written by Noah Gordon. It is about a Christian British boy of the 11th-century, who lives in the poorest suburb of London. At the age of nine, Rob Cole, the protagonist, is orphaned, his father dies and then his mother from appendicitis, so he and his many brothers and sisters go to live with different families. 

Rob fears being adopted by a family and becoming a slave, but finally he is taken by a traveling barber-surgeon, whose work is so various, from entertaining people to cure them with natural medicines he creates. So Rob became his assistant. 

From this day Rob discoveres his love for medicine and also his gift, which is the power of knowing if people is going to die just by touching them. So when Rob is old enough to finally leave the barber-surgeon, he becomes also a barber-surgeon. But he wants to take advantage of his gift and learn more about medicine so that he is able to cure everyone, and also the ones who die with the same disease as his mother. 

So after this, he started asking for a physician who could teach him and someone told him about the Persian medical school, the best one, so he decides to travel there at all cost. During this journey he will have to renounce to many things, like his religion, but also he will learn so many things.

MY OPINION: 

The reason why I love this book is because it represents courage, overcoming and that everything is possible if you really want it, because Rob Cole has many problems during his journey and he had to live in poor conditions to get to where he wants. But it never came through his mind to give up and come back home where he had a proper work that gave him enough money to live in very good conditions. Also, I really liked the way Rob wishes to learn and even when he was given the option of having a rich work, he renunced because he wanted to stay next to his teacher and learn even more and also he never forgot the disease that killed his mother and he tries to discover what happened to her. 

INCEPTION

Inception is a science fiction thriller written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is about Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio)  who is a profetional thief. He espionages people by entering in their subconscious minds, using two-level "drem within a dream" so that he can extract valuable information.

This practice has permited Dom get into the dangerous world of espionage but also it has converted him into a fugitive and he had to sacrifice everything he loved. But now, Dom has the option to have his old life back but for this he and his team of especialist have to make a very difficult job. It consists on reversing the operation, insted of stealing information of someones subconscious they have to introduce information and if they get it, it would be the perfect crime.

MY OPINION: 

There are many reason why it is one of my favourite movies, the first one is because I think that dreams are a fascinating topic for a movie. In a dream you can creat whatever you want. Another reason is because this movie is really unpredictable, when you feel like you know what's coming next, everything changes and this makes the movie a little bit hard to follow, also because it's really fast, many thing are happenig at the same time and you have too many information to remember and to digest. I also like the characters of this movie, I think each of them are really interesting and the fact that you don't know many things about them makes them even more interesting and mysterious.

I recomend this movie to everyone who likes science fiction but it is a little bit hard to understand because it makes you think a lot. I had to watch it twice to really know what was happening during all the movie and I still have some doubts about some facts and obiously about the amazing open end. 

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