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UNIFOR Medicina 2025/1Deadpool & Wolverine review – Marvel’s achingly meta new sequel is going to be huge
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s superhero odd couple are flung together in a gagtastic if sloppy action comedy that maxes out its 15 certificate
If there’s a more obnoxious film this year, I’ll book myself on an all-expenses trip to “the Void” (a dumping ground for reject mutants, superheroes and sundry franchise miscellanea, which Deadpool, irreverent scamp that he is, describes as “a bit Mad Maxy”). This isn’t unexpected. Obviously this movie is obnoxious. It’s directed by Shawn Levy (Free Guy), whose approach is to deploy cinematic winks and ironic air quotes, and it stars Ryan Reynolds, who has made a career from walking the precarious line that divides lovable from punchable. It isn’t even necessarily a bad thing: a film can be obnoxious and simultaneously very funny, and Deadpool & Wolverine is frequently hilarious. But it’s also slapdash, repetitive and shoddy looking, with an overreliance on meme-derived gags and achingly meta comic fan in-jokes. It’s going to be huge.
Already paired up in a series of Marvel comic books, Deadpool (Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) make for an entertaining, if explosive movie double act. They have plenty in common: both are self-healers, both have authority issues, both have monster-sized substance abuse problems. But their differences – slashed, stabbed and punched out in close combat in the back of a Honda minivan – are what gives the film its juice. And by juice I mean blood; what with the gore and the risque gags, the film earns every last month of its 15 certificate.
Deadpool and Wolverine are flung together after the timeline of Deadpool’s universe is threatened with abrupt termination by Mr Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen), a rogue agent of the Time Variance Authority. Since the death of the Wolverine in Deadpool’s universe is a key factor in its demise, Deadpool goes multiverse-hopping for a replacement and manages to find the very worst version – a self-loathing, drunken failure. Redemption beckons, but not before plenty of effects-driven carnage and a run-in with Cassandra (Emma Corrin), the deranged evil twin of Professor Charles Xavier.
Disponível em: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/27/deadpool-wolverine-review-marvel-achinglymeta-gagfest-is-going-to-be-huge-ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-shawn-levy. Acesso em:11 out. 2024.
De acordo com o autor, o filme Deadpool & Wolverine pode ser caracterizado como
Questão 11 14029505
UEA - SIS 3º Serie 2025/2027 2024Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Atlas: the new movie from Jennifer Lopez
Atlas is a sci-fi thriller in which humanity faces the fury of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Filled with impressive visuals and intense action sequences, the movie explores themes of technology, ethics, and humanity’s future in an increasingly interconnected world. However, despite Jennifer Lopez’s convincing performance, the film’s predictability impedes its potential to become an incredible masterpiece.
Jennifer Lopez is simply superb as a human distrusting machine. Her struggle to survive the battle and her transformation from analyst to combat fighter are convincing. Simu Liu, as the villainous robotic character Harlan, is believable, though he could have been more impactful. Sterling K. Brown, as Colonel Elias, delivers a strong performance, and Abraham Popoola, as the unbeatable AI fighter Casca, is brilliant. In a limited role as Atlas’s mother, Lana Parrilla plays a key character in the film.
(Archika Khurana. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 24.05.2024. Adaptado.)
Em “Simu Liu, as the villainous robotic character Harlan, is believable” (2º parágrafo), o trecho sublinhado apresenta
Questão 82 8457497
UECE 1ª Fase 2023/1T E X T
Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months Later, Study Finds
A study of tens of thousands of people in
Scotland found that one in 20 people who had been sick
with Covid reported not recovering at all, and another
four in 10 said they had not fully recovered from their
[5] infections many months later.
The authors of the study, published in the journal
Nature Communications, tried to home in on the longterm risks of Covid by comparing the frequency of
symptoms in people with and without previous Covid
[10] diagnoses.
People with previous symptomatic Covid
infections reported certain persistent symptoms, such
as breathlessness, palpitations and confusion or
difficulty concentrating, at a rate roughly three times as
[15] high as uninfected people in surveys from six to 18
months later, the study found. Those patients also
experienced elevated risks of more than 20 other
symptoms relating to the heart, respiratory health,
muscle aches, mental health and the sensory system.
[20] The findings strengthened calls from scientists
for more expansive care options for long Covid patients
in the United States and elsewhere, while also offering
some good news.
The study did not identify greater risks of long
[25] term problems in people with asymptomatic
coronavirus infections. It also found, in a much more
limited subset of participants who had been given at
least one dose of Covid vaccine before their infections,
that vaccination appeared to help reduce if not
[30] eliminate the risk of some long Covid symptoms.
People with severe initial Covid cases were at
higher risk of long-term problems, the study found. “The
beauty of this study is they have a control group, and
they can isolate the proportion of symptomatology that
[35] is attributable to Covid infection,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly,
chief of research at the V.A. St. Louis Health Care System
and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in
St. Louis, who was not involved in the research. “It also
tracks with the broader idea that long Covid is truly a
[40] multisystem disorder,” Dr. Al-Aly said, one that resides
“not only in the brain, not only in the heart — it’s all of
the above.”
Jill Pell, a professor of public health at the
University of Glasgow who led the research, said the
[45] findings reinforced the importance of long Covid
patients being offered support that extends beyond
health care and also addresses needs related to jobs,
education, poverty and disability. “It told us that Covid
can appear differently in different individuals, and it can
[50] have more than one impact on your life,” Dr. Pell said.
“Any approach to supporting people has to be, firstly,
personalized and also holistic. The answer doesn’t just
lie within the health care sector.
Long Covid refers to a constellation of problems
[55] that can plague patients for months or longer after an
infection. Over the last year, researchers have given
more attention to understanding the daunting
aftereffects as the number of Covid cases exploded and
health systems learned to better manage the initial
[60] stages of an infection. U.S. government estimates have
indicated that between 7.7 million and 23 million people
in the United States could have long Covid.
Globally, “the condition is devastating people’s
lives and livelihoods,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
[65] the director general of the World Health Organization,
wrote in an article for The Guardian. He called on all
countries to devote “immediate and sustained action
equivalent to its scale.”
The authors of the study in Scotland tracked
[70] 33,000 people who had tested positive for the virus
starting in April 2020 and 63,000 who had never been
diagnosed with Covid. In six-month intervals, those
people were asked about any symptoms they had,
including tiredness, muscle aches, chest pain and
neurological problems, and about any difficulties with
[75] daily life.
Of those with previous Covid cases, 6 percent
said on their most recent follow-up survey that they had
not recovered at all and 42 percent said that they had
[80] only partly recovered. Women, older people and those
living in poorer areas faced more serious aftereffects
from a Covid infection. So, too, did those with preexisting health problems, including respiratory disease
and depression.
[85] Only a small portion of the study participants —
about 4 percent — had been vaccinated before their
infections, and many of those with only a single dose.
“We’re now really heavily reliant upon vaccination,” Dr.
Pell said, “which does confer some protection, but it’s
[90] not absolute.”
Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/
The text mentions that in the United States, according to statistics, people affected by long Covid reach the mark of
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Albert Einstein 2018/1The $900bn question: What is the Belt and Road initiative?
By Tom Phillips https://www.theguardian.com Acessado em 25/10/2017
It’s a confusing title but it could turn out to be the largest ever infrastructure project with close to a trillion dollars being invested across the globe
In concrete terms, the Belt and Road initiative is an immensely ambitious development campaign through which China wants to boost trade and stimulate economic growth across Asia and beyond. It hopes to do so by building massive amounts of infrastructure connecting it to countries around the globe. By some estimates, China plans to pump $150bn into such projects each year. In a report released at the start of this year, ratings agency Fitch said an extraordinary $900bn in projects were planned or underway.
The Belt and Road initiative has two main prongs: one is called the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ (the belt) and the other the ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road’ (the road). Bewilderingly, the ‘road’ is not actually a road but rather a sea route linking China’s southern coast to east Africa and the Mediterranean. The ‘belt’ is a series of overland corridors connecting China with Europe, via Central Asia and the Middle East.
A iniciativa Belt and Road
Questão 13 310144
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THE "13 REASONS WHY" ACTORS HAD THERAPY DOGS TO HELP WITH EMOTIONAL SCENES
By Hannah Orenstein - Apr 17, 2017
“13 Reasons Why” doesn't shy away from tackling heavy issues like bullying, rape, and suicide. But bringing such dark stories to life can take a toll on actors, which is why the cast had access to cute, cuddly therapy dogs while filming the show.
"They had therapy dogs on set," Dylan Minnette, who played Clay, told PopSugar. "There was a puppy per hour. They really tried to help out. The puppies helped." According to the Alliance of Therapy Dogs, the pups are "on a mission of sharing smiles and joy."
Dylan also acknowledged that Katherine Langford, who played Hannah, had the most intense experience of them all. "She had the brunt of the emotional stuff," he continued. "I mean, we all have very emotional parts, but this is about her character." In the same interview, Katherine acknowledged the intensity of her character's role and explained why it was so important to bring these tough scenes to life.
"We always read a new script at a table read, and once we hit episode nine, there was silence," she said. "That's when we realized what we were doing was important. That's the moment that's kind of ingrained in my head as, 'This is really important.' We cover so many intense issues. I feel like so much of Hannah's life, especially the last five episodes, is so tragic that you just have to put that shock aside and get through it. It's only been after the show and after wrapping that I've gone, wow, we really did handle some really heavy stuff. I'm really proud of how we handle it, because as you said we don't shy away from them."
Fonte: <http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/news/a46489/the-13-reasons-why-actors-had-therapy-dogs/> Acesso: 22/05/2017.
No texto, a atriz Katherine Langford conta em entrevista que, a medida que “13 Reasons Why” aproximavase do fim, ela percebeu que:
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ENEM 1ª Aplicação - 1° Dia (Amarela) 2017One of the things that made an incredible impression on me in the fil'm was Frida's comfort in and celebration of her own unique beauty. She didn't try to fit into conventional ideas or images about womanhood or what makes someone or something beautiful. lnstead, she fully inhabited her own unique gifts, not particularly caring what other people thought. She was magnetic and beautiful in her own right. She painted for years, not to be a commercial success or to be discovered, but to express her own inner pain, joy, family, lave and culture. She absolutely and resolutely was who she was. The trueness of her own unique vision and her ability to stand firmly in her own truth was what made her successful in the end.
HUTZLER, L. Disponível em: www.etbscreenwriting.com. Acesso em: 6 maio 2013.
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