Rum Diary

During this course we have emphasized the issue of tourism and travel, as we are traveling in the literature. We watched the movie "Rum Diary" which was based on the book by Hunter S. Thompson. This film signed in Puerto Rico has the starring Johnny Depp, who plays the role of an American journalist Paul Kemp who was not successful in the United States and Puerto Rico comes to better carry out their work.

Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is a freelance journalist in a state of disavowal and staff lost that is in a critical point in his life while writing for the caribbean. Kemp knows Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) who is interested in the services of Kemp to advertise a resort on an island sponsored by mobster. At the same time knows Chenault, the pair of Sanderson and falls in love with her defiance at various levels while trying to find a place among a group of lost souls aimed at self-destruction.

A tourist is a person who moves from their usual environment to another geographical point, being absent from their usual place of residence more than 24 hours and making one overnight stay in the other geographic point. Paul Kemp was a tourist when he arrived in Puerto Rico, and who knew nothing about Puerto Rico and its culture. What caught my attention in the movie was that Kemp was contracted to write about zodiacal and seeing situations Puerto Rico and interact with people, he became interested in writing about the social problems of the island as alcoholism, crime and proverty was on the island wwhere he was. Paul Kemp chages his perspective when he came to work in Puerto Rico because he saw the problems for another point of view.

The movie "Rum Diary" is a movie where you can see the roles as a tourist and can change your perspective simply survive elsewhere. The trip to Puerto Rico Kemp Changed since returning to the United States has success as a writer. Kemp understood his position and the position of puerto ricans and brought with hin a different perspective than he had when he arrived.