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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

Donnie Darko (2001)

“Donnie Darko”, directed by Richard Kelly; is a fascinating cult coming-of-age film that calls to be experienced and solved many times. The plot is full of intriguing mental riddles that involve parallel realities and dreams, as well as feelings that transcend the definitions of “nostalgia” or “mystery”. Above all, this film has a kind of …

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The Great Beauty – 30 years of The Cure’s Disintegration (1989)

The year is 1989, and The Cure is about to reach an unexpected peak of recognition and creativity by creating an album that until this day by many is considered as the masterpiece of their discography and one of the best albums of all times. In their mystical trilogy of albums released between 1980 and …

Film Octavio Carbajal Gonzalez Review

Shame (2011)

“Shame” is a harsh and compulsive film, directed by Steve McQueen. The film tells us about the life of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a life that is almost perfect: he has a stable work, a nice apartment, good friends and women who adore him. However, something prevents Brandon from having a relationship that lasts more than …

Film Octavio Carbajal Gonzalez Review

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

“Synecdoche, New York”, is an amazing and challenging film by director Charlie Kaufman. It is a film full of uncomfortable and courageous truths about human beings, which we constantly try to ignore through illusions and stimulating beliefs of transcendence. The theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is a depressed man, whose life fades quickly. …

Film Octavio Carbajal Gonzalez Review

Her (2013)

We currently live in deeply sad times in which we are overly subjected to electronic devices. “Her” is a monumental film by the interesting director Spike Jonze, where he tells us the story of Theodore, a man who falls in love with a computer voice. Theodore works for a company that hires professional writers who …