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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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Film Octavio Carbajal Gonzalez Review

Children of Men (2006)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón Many directors have portrayed the near or distant future in their films. Some have done it with optimism, others with pessimism, but very few have dared to analyze the social, political and catastrophic repercussions of a collapsed present that is totally devoid of a promising future. Apparently, the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón …

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The Favourite (2018)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Contemporary Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is inclined to create worlds of his own, worlds in which the viewer feels like a complete stranger that gradually interacts with the environment, until a complete and fascinating immersion occurs. In his magnum opus Dogtooth (2009), Lanthimos invited us into a hermetic universe filled with its …

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The Double Life Of Véronique (1991)

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.” Krzysztof Kieślowski Some films are completely blissful and ethereal, their souls float through the environment, their images fade between dreamy and fleeting sensations, their substance is destined to overcome the borders of time and space. …

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ROMA (2018)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón Throughout the history of cinema, some of the most acclaimed directors have given in to the temptation of capturing their childhood memories on celluloid. That’s the case with François Truffaut and his The 400 Blows (1959), Ingmar Bergman with Fanny and Alexander (1982) or Federico Fellini with Amarcord (1973). In 2018, the …