Gold and Beautiful

I finally saw the movie today... Don't ask me why, I just had to. As I was watching the first half, the wedding preparations, I was thinkng, this is not going to happen.... He is not going through with it... And then when I saw the wedding scene I was like, I knew he would do that. She is really stupid to ever think he was going to get married. So why did she spend so many years of her life on this loser???? And the answer to that I think is very simple.... It is love, hope, faith, trust.... whatever you want to call it, but basically its the heart taking over the brain... For my GGC 1000 class, the students had to make a presentation on their favorite inspirational quotes. One of my students' quote was "Stand up for something, or else you will fall for everything". She spoke about how her boyfriend mistreated her and she let him, until one day when she realized it was not worth it and stood up for herself and left him... But the way she presented it was really nice (...

I am sure many of us have seen the Sex and the City movie trailer...... Carrie Bradshaw preparing for her Big Apple wedding with Big. First of all I think the whole movie is a contradiction to the series... I always thought that Sex and the City was all about these 4 independent, "liberated" women, I thought it was all about relationships and their complexity.... Why would Carrie Bradshaw want to marry a guy, who first refused to marry her and then married a much younger woman???? That does not make her lib at all... rather she is more of a doormat than anyone else.... Also watching that trailer reminded me of a movie that I saw sometime back, "Becoming Jane"... and this thought crossed my mind: From Jane Austen to Carrie Bradshaw, marriage seems to be the Holy Grail for women.... (Not that I have anything against marriage..... just the pressure!!!!)