I’VE BEEN ASKED FOR AN AUTOGRAPH

You work hard, sometimes you don’t even remember why. It’s a continuous challenge with yourself and the others, and when you feel you’re almost at the end of the tunnel something sudden kicks you back in the game at the last moment and doesn’t allow you to take a breath.
Then there are these occasions, little satisfactions that only you and your stomach can understand.

Today I get out of home and a guy near a van glances at me. He gets close to me:
- Bartolo Ansaldi?
I nod and he takes out a pen and a piece of paper.
- Can you make me an autograph?
- You recognized me, mh?
He looks at me without answering, just with an embarrassed smile.
I give him back the pen and he gives me the package I was waiting for.

P.S.: Yes, yes, he was a courier. I was excited for the package…

FILMS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Juno is a teenage girl of 16 that gets pregnant and decides to keep the child.

It is a film about the difficulties and choices this little more than a kid has to face: it is a somewhat light and deep film at the same time, with an intense dialogue.

But when it first went to theatres in 2007 provoked a Juno Emergency in UK and the magazines reported that teenagers were so impressed by that character that there were classrooms with up to 6 pregnant girls.

This started to let me think on the power films have on us: how do they influence us, how do they condition us and how do they let us dream.

If it is true that a film with a positive message can positively influence our lives it must be true the opposite, too.

My next question is How much of my personality comes from the films I watched and have been important to me, and how would I be without having watched them?

I am not talking about my favorite films, but the ones that for some reason have changed something in myself after I watched them.

One of the films that most influenced my way to see life is Yes Man, with Jim Carrey: from the moment I watched it I tried my best to accept invitations that in other circumstances I would have dropped or make experiences that I avoided in the past, just for the curiosity to see where they'd take me to.

I can't really say it's always been a good idea, but this way I found more friends and had discovered things that otherwise I wouldn't have ever known, and I'm glad.

Another good example for me is Picture Perfect, with Jennifer Aniston. I hardly remember the title, but it gives one of the advices I mostly followed in my working life: Don't dress for the job you have, but for the job you wish.

I am interested to know: is there a film that for any reasons contributed to change your life too, and why?