25 1 / 2012
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it all in at once.
- Audrey Hepburn
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11 12 / 2011
Good Lord! Am I the only person that wishes Lindsay Lohan would stop posing as Marilyn Monroe in all of her shoots? We get it. You’re a huge Marilyn fan, but enough is enough. I love Marilyn and I hate having to see Lohan redo EVERY famous picture of her.
10 12 / 2011
Mona Lisa Smile
I was 13 years old when Mona Lisa Smile came out. It is hard to believe since 2003 seems like just yesterday. The first time I saw the movie I walked away with an appreciation for Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and that was about it. I didn’t understand the meaning behind it nor did I look for one. It took a few years before I really sat down and enjoyed it. Now the movie is one of my favorites.
While watching the movie it’s easy to see the differences between 1953 and now. One would think there would be many differences, however, there are not. Sure, the look of the cars have changed, along with the clothing and the way we wear our hair, but women really are not very different now than they were then.
Julia Roberts plays Ms. Watson, a newly appointed art history teacher at the prestigious Wellesley College. She not only holds a huge passion for art, but for her students as well. She wants more for her students, more education, more jobs anything, but the typical “housewife” life that awaits many of them after college. Some of the students rebel against the norm and others look forward to being the perfect housewife.
After watching the movie recently, I came away thinking about how things really aren’t very different today. The only difference I see is most “housewives” are working full-time jobs on top of it all. It almost makes no sense when you think about it. Women have more work now than they ever have, but all we want is to be equal right? News flash! Women will NEVER be equal. Women will always have more responsibilities and more work whether we like it or not and if that’s the case I see nothing wrong with being excited over a new washer and dryer. After all that might make the day a teensy weensy bit easier.
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