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Caché

Michael Haneke, 2005 Kids are not free from wickedness. They struggle to keep their castle safe one way or another, which may result in irrevokable pains to their peers, but they tend to easily forget, be happy with secure freedom and move on to their gifted life path. Then, what would you do later if you found out a small leakage in the solid castle you have built and realized the leakage was related to a mischief you had committed when you were in age 6? What could be the most disturbing to you? The intolerable outer force penetrating the wall, sinful bitterness, or your conscientiousness? Sure, the “hidden” memory won’t just pertain to someone’s childhood memory. The director, who also wrote the script, doesn’t waste time for creating mood or giving pretext. The film goes to the point immediately. Tensions are built among present and past relationships and some are abruptly resolved, but soon the resolution turns out only to be transformed. There is no end in this film. In the thema

Travel to Panama

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Part 1: Hiking After watching the Miraflores canal locks, I left Panama City for Santa Fe. It is a small mountain valley town. I took a horseback riding tour to Alto de Piedras with my guide Cesamo. On this tiny and slow horse, I looked around so green mountains and thanks to him, I had a chance to visit “The house of Orchids”, which has lots of orchids in the garden. Then I headed off to Boquete. In Boquete, I visited a bakery. Surprisingly, they were playing Korean music! Guess what. The owner is Korean. I planed to hike in Senderos Los Quetzales with one of the girls who worked at the bakery in the following day. But she didn’t show up, instead I was tied with a hiking tour group. They were waiting for their guide, Pete. Our mission was making a hiking path in “Bajo Mono” with our bodies and a machete. We had to climb a long slide by hangning our body in a rope. Small rocks kept rolling down and luckily enough I was able to evade a critical danger from one of the rocks thanks to Fra