Stand by me shows us how friendship is important to deal with the challenges of growing up. Four boys in their last summer together. Each one will soon become a flashback of sunny days in the others' lives. This is a lucky movie with no dull scenes. I've chosen 3. Scenes 1 and 2 - to celebrate friendship. Scene 3 - to meditate: adult life seems to narrow the dreams of these young boys, except for one of them, who exceeded his possibilities.
Trash culture, everything that makes noise and promotes violence and destruction. We are exposed to its stimuli that distract us and disturb us in television, radio, cinema, internet, politics, humourists, press, magazines, shopping centers, streets... Indoors and outdoors stimuli lead to conditioned behaviour and consumer habits. News of war and violence lead to fear, obedience, and also to hatred, rough words, lack of empathy. War Inc. shows us the main characteristics of trash culture: life has no value, only power and destruction matter. Nevertheless, even in trash we can find the seeds of survival, the fragile signs of a kind human interaction:
