My friend Poncio

Once I had a rabbit called Poncio. One ex boyfriend give it to me as a present for Christmas in 2008, so his name was given because the urban tribe “pokemones” still existed and they “ponceaban” (make out). I fell in love as soon as I saw him, he was so little and charming.

Poncio in the arms of my ex boyfriend Andrés

Poncio with Gloria

Most people think rabbits are beautiful but boring or that they escape from people, but Poncio was completely different. He was very sociable, he liked a lot to be with people. When you shouted in my yard “Poncio!” he appeared immediately and started running in circles around your legs.

When he reached his adolescence he was a little annoying because he started doing sexual things in people’s legs (most in women), but this was resolved when I had the idea to give him a seal stuffed animal.  We named her Gloria and she was his new girlfriend, so whenever someone went to our yard they wanted to see Poncio’s love show. It was very funny.

Poncio was the best rabbit someone could have. He was somehow a dog that didn’t bark, because he always gave you some company and follow you everywhere.

He died on March 8 in 2014, it was a really sad day for me. I lost one part of my family that always brought me joy. I miss him a lot and I hope that in animal’s heaven he have many Glorias.

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

RIP PONCIO

What I like about cinema

I love to watch movies and I hope someday I can work in something related to it. Like I told you in my last post, I would like to get a scholarship and study for a couple of years something related to cinema.

I must see Citizen Kane from Orson Welles someday

For that, of course I have to watch more movies and be well informed about them. I think cinema is a magnificent world that everybody should enjoy and study too, because it reflects our society in many ways.

And I like a lot of movies, very different between them. For example horror and suspense films like Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) and Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991).

I love this scene in Rosemary's baby

War films like Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), satiricals like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) or animated ones like Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bashki, 1972) and Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001), it doesn’t matter the genre. For me what’s most important is their plot, photography, historical background and of course the effect they produce on me.  

Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Full Metal Jacket

One of my plans for next year is to see every classic or “must see” movie before I apply to a scholarship, not just for an academic purpose, but for enriching my life too.