Alright. Movie review time. So, as some of you readers know, I work at a movie theater to try and work my way through college. A perk to my job is that I get to see free movies. The other day I went and saw All About Steve. Pretty good movie actually. I loved the underlying message. I don't want to give it away, but here is the jist. There's this girl Mary who is a crossword puzzle maker for a local newspaper. She gets set up with this guy and then follows him partly on foot, then with her friends in an old Gremlin. :) Eventually they meet up and stuff happens and...well, you can figure out the rest if you want to.
But, what I really got out of this is the importance of words. It has dimished in our society a bit, but to a good extent, we still focus on the importance of words. This movie reminded me of my freshmen semester where I took Art of Communication. As you probably guessed, it was all about the importance of words and the way that our society reacts to communication of all kinds, particuarly the verbal kind. Anyways, back to the movie. So, pretty much Mary's whole life is words. In the end, she notices that words take a toll. They can make you sad, annoyed, pissed, happy, stressed, even maybe fall in love. It can bring you up, take you down or maybe even get you a promotion.
I never really thought about the importance of words before. It was simply a means of communication for a long time. I love the fact that whatever noise that comes out of my mouth is premeditated and brings something with it. It could be meaning or showing an attiutude or entertaining. (thank you english majors) But seriously. Think about it. We say words everyday and they always have different meanings associated with them. But think about this. Who gave these words power in the first place? Who made it horrible to curse? Who gave certain words power or no power at all? Just something to think about.
If you want to learn more about this, let me know. I have books all about this subject.
David Bohm's On Dialogue.
Farb's Word Play.
Overall rating: 3 stars
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