I definitly put this film on my list of favourties, not only because it's utterly beautiful and intimate, but also because I related to so many things in it. Eventhough I'm not in his position and never experienced what he has, I know what it's like to go through a disease. Javier Bardem did a great job in expressing the emtions 'Ramon'. His facial expressions said so much.

One of my favourite scenes was the one when Remon was recounting his incident and the moments that followed, the moments between life and death, when the most important moments passed before his eyes. I loved the way Julia (Belen Rueda) was looking at the photographs while listening to the tape she recorded of his voice. This scene made me think of my most precious memories. I wondered if I could put my most cherished memories in photographs. which ones would they be?

Ramón Sampedro: Out to sea. Out to sea, and in the weightlessness of the deep where dreams come true, two souls unite to fulfill a single wish. Your gaze and mine, over and over like an echo, repeating silently: "Deeper, and deeper," beyond everything that is flesh and blood. But I always awaken and I always wish for death, my lips forever entangled in your hair.

I loved it.

Ivan's childhood and Zozo

I put those two films in one review because they both tackle the same issue and there are many similarities between the two. Both are about a young boy, who lost his family in war. Aesthetically, both were really beautiful. I loved the cinematoghrophy of both, but the fact that Ivan's childhood is in black and white and was shot in 1962 left me dumbfounded. As a story I liked zozo more, it was more intimate and you really got the know the boy and you felt everything with him. Both films got scenes of the boy's imagination or scenes from the past. I loved the last scene in Ivan's childhood, when he was chasing around the little girl. It's also funny that both have a forest scene with same looking trees and everything. The two forest scenes were splendid, in both films. Even though they were both at a similar place, the emtions that these two scenes induced were very different. In Ivan's childhood I was more captivated by the beauty of the pictures infront of me, while in Zozo I was more drawn to the emtional aspect of it.