Topic One: Cinema & English

I really like watching films - I go to the cinema once a month at least and I buy DVDs as well. Among other things, watching films in English is a good way to learn the language - you gradually get used to the real spoken language and its different accents. For example, American pronunciation is very difficult to understand, because the words are all stretched togheter! Subtitles can help you with difficult accents - you can read if you don't understand- but there's a disadvantage - you make less effort to hear the dialogues and get the meaning of them. I've recently seen an interesting film about lawyers, ''Michael Clayton'', with George Clooney, even if the plot is quite complicated... It shows you the dark side of the Law and lawyers, so it's worth watching!