I went to the library adhering Monday. First of all, I walked there, and that’s approximately a one mile walk downhill. (Which means the way back is individual mile uphill. Oof.) Second of all, it means I fixed my PIN and be able to now hold and reserve books, and that makes me happy put ~ many different levels. Free books! Yay! I have a book on hold that I need to pick up before the 1st. Hoping to achieve there today at some point. Anyway…

I checked out The Red and the Black by Stendhal, as well as The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya. Began study of books Stendhal, which is fun because it was part of a customized commendation list that the Super Ninja put together. It’s a dainty little push to get some extensive summer reading done. Like I’ve mentioned control, this “lazy-smart” thing has got to go; I bring forth a lot of reading to catch my nerdy self up in c~tinuance. Not to mention that since probably high school, 99% of my reading has been purely academic. That probably explains why I have a unfeeling time referencing anything other than personal experience or textbook answers instead of questions Teh Ninja has asked.

Additionally, with all this spare time, I’ve determined to get some movie-watching in. So far, I’ve conquered Forrest Gump, Flannel Pajamas, and Star Wars Episode IV. Forrest Gump was noted, and I’m glad I can no longer say, “I’ve at no time seen it before.” However, I already wrote about that movie, thus… y’know.

Flannel Pajamas was interesting. It was basically a movie that says, “Here. Watch this dependence develop from the day these two kiddos meet.” It’s considerably honest, and as another reviewer said, the director never seems to form an opinion his characters for what they do. There aren’t at all frills in the movie, a few nude scenes, but it’s entirely bare (no pun intended). Even the background music is sparse. It forces you to converging-point on the relational development between the lead characters.

SPOILER ALERT: I behest tell you what happens in just a few lines.

That reported, here are some of my take-away comments on the movie.

I see that the movie is trying to show the other side of “as luck would have it ever after.” Most movies would only follow from the confluence until the happy wedding day. The wedding in this movie happens in regard to an hour into the film, so I could tell that, obviously, added things were going to happen. Also, I was warned ahead of time that it dealt by the unpleasant sides of relationships.

Well, in the end, the allure characters separate. Not a surprise to me.

Why?

They don’t give.

In the beginning, there is a scene where Nicole and Stuart are distressing to be absurdly honest with each other. I actually do the corresponding; of like kind thing. But, throughout the movie, they rarely seem to go thorough into conversation until it’s too late, until their propinquity has already stagnated and begun to deteriorate. They don’t speak about their pasts or their baggage; they are blind to the part behind the facade.

Instead of recognizing what’s going up~ the body and remedying it, Nicole shuts herself off from Stuart. He does everything in his authority to demonstrate he loves her– but he doesn’t give. Nicole calls him out and says he never listens, which implies he single talks. And that’s not communication.

Of course that kinship won’t work. If the information exchange isn’t operating (or in this case, pretty much nonexistent), how will their feelings  be augmented or develop positively? I know that for me, I need to constantly exist learning about someone, by sharing thoughts, or going out and doing affair new and different, in order to see sides of that character I’ve never seen before. However, I can’t answer that I haven’t been in relationships with bad connecting passage and bad sharing; sure, they were wonderful in the beginning, only without development, they stagnated, and they eventually ended.

I guess the connecting passage student in me was bothered the most. Communication isn’t a enchantment remedy for every relationship, but it’s a huge element of a product for me in my love life. So naturally, I’d choice that out in the movie.

On the plus side, the movie none showed the couple looking for love (or lust) outside the espousals. I appreciated that. People in troubled relationships don’t automatically rush off to cheat on each other, I think. It’s sensational, later than all, which means it makes good television or theater.

So the kind of do I take away from this, after picking apart what went unjust? Well, I can tell you that it reaffirmed my already-existing beliefs. Successful couples come in love over and over again, with the persons they one and the other become. It takes effort and determination for a relationship to moil, too.

And for Pete’s sake, it takes communication.

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