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Octavio Carbajal González

My name is Octavio Carbajal González, I am 23 years old and I currently live in Mexico City. I am a medical student, and have an incessant passion for music, film and literature. I mainly write film reviews and talk about those films that potentially can make transcendent changes in people's lifes. I also talk passionately about music and books that have established a radical change in my life.

My love for cinema started when I discovered the films of Lars von Trier, his artistic vision and ideology about the world was what I always wanted to find. On the musical side, the post punk movement was the one that introduced me to all the fascinating alternative musical movements that came up afterwards. I want to especially mention Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure and Radiohead, which were the groups that were always with me in all the situations of my life. I also have an eternal gratitude for having found the books of Nietzsche, Dostojevsky and Kafka, who were the ones who radically changed my thinking and expanded my ambitions to continue with my life and do something meaningful in it.
I'm extremely honored to write for Vinyl Writers, which we will turn into an outstanding space to discuss art.

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Memoria (2021)

For the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, reality must be portrayed in all its richness, splendor and complexity. Reality must include our dreams, memories, and projections of the future. The universe of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a mixture of Tarkovsky’s reasoning elements with some aspects of Thai culture: the belief in reincarnation, the intimate …

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Souvlaki (1993): When Slowdive Touched the Sky

During the exciting first years of the 90s decade, the USA were experiencing the angry and furious fever of grunge bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. On the other side of the Atlantic ocean, an underground musical genre with a radically opposite sound had been fascinating England for some years: it was a mysterious, …

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Gaspar Noé’s Climax (2018)

Beautiful depictions of sex and violence, vibrant colours, astonishing soundtracks and uncomfortable steadicam shots are often associated with the films of French-Argentine director Gaspar Noé. Hailed as a unique voice in cinema by some, and perceived as a mere provocateur by others, Noé remains as controversial today as when he exploded onto the seventh art. …

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006): The Journey Behind Guillermo Del Toro’s Dark Fairytale

Guillermo del Toro was born on October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico. He was raised in a Catholic household and described his first years in life as “morbid”, stating that they made him absolutely intolerant of authoritarian figures. Del Toro developed an interest in making short dark fantasy films with his father’s Super …