I’ve decided something.
He’s Just Not That Into You is one of the worst movies. Like ever. First of all, it was terrifyingly informative. Thanks to it, no one can go on innocently believing that that certain person maybe just dropped his phone in the toilet or was kidnapped by aliens who ate each one of his fingers thereby rendering him incapable of any text messaging abilities.
But really the worst part involves little Miss Scarlett Johansson and her hussy ways. For those of us who haven’t been unenlightened by this movie, let me fill you in. Scarlett Johansson hits on a dude, who she finds out is married, but continues to chase anyway, because after all, as her devoted friend Drew Barrymore tells her –--- she knew someone who knew someone who was married to a “nice lady” for 15 years but had an affair and only then found the love of his life. Wow, hello Selfish. And may I add, yeah right.
Obviously an affair is bad. But the harmful thing to those with consciences is that it shows reality as truth.
I was talking with a friend about this movie, and that part in general, and getting heated as it made me increasingly upset, when he said the most alarming thing:
“Well, it’s true! It happens!”
Whoa. By no means is it true. Maybe it’s real. But not true.
There is reality and there are expectations. There is the POWER of expectations. And then there is the power of expectation tainted by reality but not bolstered by truth.
I could probably find eighteen super Velveeta quotes about what people can become, etc, but I’ll just leave it at one to prove my point:
“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (German guy who wrote Faust)
We often say that people are greedy.
We say they’re lustful.
We say they’re lazy.
We say that people act on impulses and can’t be trusted.
But consider this:
“Truth is knowledge of things as they are, as they were, and as they are to come. “
As they are to come.
Which I can spin this way: If we expect people to be good; if we expect them to be giving and clean and industrious and trustworthy, then that is what they are to come, and that is true.
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
