Cromosoma 5 (Mónica)

It tells the story of Andrea, a girl who has a disbility, and her family, how they manage this situation.
Andrea was born premature and due to that sha had to spend several time inside an incubator, when she finally was ready to go home, her parents notice that something was not right. They took her to doctors all over the world and after several years Andrea was diagnosed with an illness called Chromosome 5 or Cri du chat, which is characterized by an unic weeping that it sounds like the meow of a cat, this illness also affects at the psychomotor development and the ability to speak. Besides the eyes of the people that sffer from this illness are like chinese.
Lisa, her mum tells us that at the beggining when they finally had the answer to their child's problem, they felt relieved but when they got home and started to think of all the facts, they started to feel overwhelmed and can't stop wondering "Why them? and why Andrea?" As they said it is a "putada", because you have never heard about this illness until your daughter has it, so it must be pretty scary, and as they said they felt lost and with a lot of questions, I think that what this film is trying to do is to normalize this situation and not us to feel sorry for them.
Another important thing is that Billie, Andrea's sister, doesn't know what is Andrea's problem, but we can see that she adapt at her sister level and plays with her, this demonstrate us that the saying that 'children are very cruel' usually is not true, we can perceive this when Andrea is in class, because she doesn't suffer any kind of bullying or margination, on the contrary, children helps her and cares about how she is doing. They also learn how to communicate to Andrea by signs, and they all know the language and the basic things. This is also very beautiful and teach us how special the human can be.

I really liked this film, I found it very touching and a way to think beyond the superficiality that most of the times distinguish people. It also shows us the strengh that people can get from nowhere depending on the situation. I think that is very enriching, personally and mentally, both.

Cromosoma 5 reflection (Javier Muñoz)

Before watching it, like it was a documentary about people with problems and it was from Spain, I thought that it was going to be boring and not very good. But, after, watching it, I’ve discovered that is a good film that combines different sceneries using the like analogies of what is occurring.

It was interesting and incredible, because without watching it maybe you would see her, Andrea, the (protagonist) of the documentary and a real person, as a kid with problems and you would feel pity, but when who has seen it, will know that is a person like others and more special, because as she can’t express or communicate herself by language, she is always transmitting something in every (Mirada) and every gesture.

It’s hard to have a son or a daughter with problems, of the type that are, but is more difficult to know that you can’t make anything to change the way he or she is, because the illness he or she has is minority, and the resources as scientists and money are focalized to discover cures or treatments for the illness that affect a big part of the population and that with which the companies could obtain more money. You can’t understand why your son or daughter is not a human being for the rest of the world, only a statistic.

I think that is good for Andrea, not only having so good and patience parents, as the jobs they have, he building models and she as a photographer, and an intelligent and talkative sister, that is always caring about her, but to go, besides to a special school, also to an ordinary one, where she can have relation with normal children, that will teach her more things that those that are in a special school.

From my point of view, all the children with problems should go or be at ordinary schools, because the other kids understand what happens, but they don’t aisle or avoid that kids, they (tartan) to help them, they concentrate around them, talking and playing, and I think is a good method for these children to socialize, to acquire language and to accustom to live in society like everyone.

Our ideal school (Javier Muñoz)

Well, I’m going to start my reflection talking about the other groups and at the end I’ll talk about us.

The Minions was the first group. They adapted their voices and the explanation of their ideal school to the minion’s films. I think it was funny, but from my point of view there were some long scenes that are unnecessary and they include them because were part of the movie. If it were me, I had cut that scenes and concentrate in the important parts. Another thing was the sound; I couldn’t understand well the voices.

The second group was The four magic teachers. They combine some manga comics which were talking about ideas for an ideal school. I liked the idea of ask other people around the world about what was their impression about how the ideal school should be. I want to recognize their effort to put the voices, although the video was perfectly understood with only seeing the speech bubbles.

The third group was LASH, which concentrated their efforts in answering what the teacher asked us, explaining very well the theory and the structure of their ideal school. It was god.

The last group was KIA, which first presented their video as if it were an American program which was going to help some people to improve their school, with Gizem as interviewer. Then they shown us the structure of their ideal school by doing a look around all the playmobil settings they had done: I think it was an incredible work to set all that playmobil bodies, in different positions: It will had required a lot of time. Wow, good job!

So now I’m going to talk about our group, Encendiendo bombillas. In my opinion, we did a great job and the trouble is that we couldn’t include, although we pass the time limit, all the scenes, all what we rec. Maybe we lead the work many days and that must be the reason why we were, some of us, so stressed about finish the work. So, for the next time, I think we should start to work the day after they the teacher tell us to do it, and doing like it, we will do it better.      I also want to talk about the subtitles, that I don’t know yet if were necessary, but it was hard to put it, more for my partners which were the ones who adapted every scene to every subtitles, than for me that I only translate them.                                                                                                                                             I enjoy the making of the work, as when we were interviewing some teachers and children from the school La Paz, and I’d want to recognize the work of my group, all of us by making the interviews; Laura by providing the cameras and the microphone to do our interviews; and Mónica and Elisa for making the picture of the structure of our ideal school with the game The Sims.

 

Cromosoma 5 (Elisa)

Last week we saw in class a documentary called “Cromosoma 5”. This documentary tells the story of a child, Andrea.

Andrea is a girl born premature, doctors attempted that remained inside his mother, Lisa, because every minute was within best for Andrea; after birth had to spend a month in the incubator. He was born with a condition known as "chromosome 5" or "cri du chat". This disorder is due to the lack of a part of chromosome 5 that produces some features such as slanted eyes, she did not sit down Correctly, she had a strange crying, she had slanted features, she could not express herself very well and she did not talk a lot.

No parent is prepared to receive the news that their son / daughter will be born with a psychomotor and mental retardation, and Andrea's parents were no exception. But nevertheless, accepted her, wanted her, tried to give all the best, sought their happiness ... She found it hard to relate to others, but his parents were seeking all possible methods to help communicate (games). Andrea had a sister, Billie, at the beginning she did not understand very well Andrea's behavior but then they played together and understand each other. This shows that children, despite of children are different do not care; they play, they have fun, they learn, they laugh with them as with any other child.

Andrea was receiving special education, she went for three days to a special school and another two days to a school with other children. This seems fantastic because a child with the type of disorder Andrea needs special, monitoring and more individualized care, yet also is good to go to other centers with more kids that can play, learn and go slowly linking.

No one is ready to hear the news that we will have a close relative or a person with a disability. At first, the first thought that comes to mind is that it will be a problem, it will be hard work ... But once this first thought have to think much further. Such things can enrich you as a person much culturally and sometimes these people can make you see the world differently, can make you happier ... So we should not see it as a obtáculo but as a new experience.

Elisa Perez Sañudo

1ºB Magisterio Primaria Bilingüe