M.Night

So I just got back from seeing lady in the water with Marie. I must say that ever since she got a boyfriend she has been...

I don't know how to put it. It's like she has warped into the opposite of what we hated in high school. We hated the couples who together would be a drag to be around. They annoyed us with their hand holding, and holding on to that youthful "when we have kids" crap. But with her she seems to be utterly dull without him.

I guess he was at work and called to she what she was doing. She of course told him that in 30 minutes we would be sitting in a theater watching a movie. He couldn't decide if he wanted to go. The girl they use to hang out with wanted to go, but she still had about an hour left of work to do. He for some reason wanted her to go along and suggested we go to the 9 o'clock showing instead so they could meet us.

He then called back 15minutes later to say that he had changed his mind and didn't want to go and would just hang out at his place. Whatever, boys can be annoying sometimes, especially when they are someone else's boyfriend(he said that together we were men bashers. Aren't men bashers feminists. And I don't like being label a hardcore feminist. some of them are scary. He's now on my "you kind of annoy me list").

After that she seemed kind of disconnected. "Well if he doesn't want to come I guess we'll just continue having a fun time." But without him, Marie failed to bring on the fun. She brought on the bored.

Anyway about M. Night. So Lady in the Water wasn't my favorite movie. It was kind of dragging on and on, and the people next to us were annoying, I hate when the audience laughs at parts that are not funny. It's annoying. A pet peeve of mine; when you laugh just to laugh.

But M.Night has a way of storytelling. That even when you have given up on the movie and or the plot, he surprises you with the slight beauty of it all. Whatever it is. I mean I can list all the bad things about the movie. But the feeling that he evokes trumps it all. It's that feeling of seeing the most beautiful thing you have ever seen, figuring out a hard problem, figuring out what this life is all about, that moment when you feel like you can't breathe because it is caught in your lungs, but you don't care cause you couldn't explain what you wanted to say eloquently enough.

Because even though I walked out feeling like he should have given me more, I felt like what I had received was greater. I think he is a genius storyteller, a little pompous and blatantly confusing(he basically stars in the damn thing) but his vision, his ability to take what is from his heart to film is something I fail miserably at. I fail at expressing what I feel in my heart to others who I desperately want to reach out to. And the whole time I'm watching this bizarre movie it was the only thing I could think of. His movie was about people"s roles in life and figuring it out through the haze.

It was the most amazing part of the whole movie, for people to start figuring out their roles and becoming so finely accustomed to it.

And though the movie is not for everyone, and though it dragged on to no end, and though I almost smacked the lady next to me...He made me want to believe in all the things we are told not to believe in anymore.

I want to believe in fairy tales and bedtime stories, and that somewhere out there we really do have our own place and purpose. Because surprisingly(and I don't think it is a spoiler at all) it is those small characters in life who contribute to the big scheme of it. Whose small roles are actually the big ones in life

They are literally the basis of most of the stuff I write or wish to write in the future.

He makes me want to be a better writer and a believer in the importance in storytelling.

Oh and Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard are amazing.