Blog 7

I recently saw the movie Burn After Reading. This movie was probably the most bizarre movie I've ever seen. There were several story lines going on, but they all ended up connecting in the end. The trailer of this movie looked a lot more interesting and normal from what the movie really was. It seemed like a comedy movie with some really good actors, including Brad Pitt and George Clooney. However, once you saw the movie, it was a whole different story. The movie was about a few friends who worked at a gym together found what they thought to be a "top-secret" disc containing information from the CIA, however it was really nothing. An older lady and her friend (Brad Pitt) take this CD and try to get money by blackmailing the owner of the CD all for plastic surgery money. The older woman tries everything to get the surgeries she wants, which include liposuction, face lift, nose job, etc. She will do anything for these surgeries because she thinks it is the only way she will find a man. The other woman in this film is having an affair on her husband and is going to leave him for the other man. When in reality, the man she is having an affair with is a sex addict and is just using her. I won't spoil the ending, but women were not portrayed well in this movie at all. The older woman needed platic surgery to find a man, and the other was having an affair and being played by another man.

As for the readings, after reading the section on divorce of chapter 7 of The F Word, make me never even want to try marriage. People are definitely getting married too young and for the wrong reasons. People change so much in a 5 year span, I can't imagine what I will be like from my age now (21) until fiver years down the road when I will be 26. People need to realize marriage isn't all fun and games and that it takes a lot of work. The book said that "nearly half of recent first marriages may end in divorce, and most people remarry after divorcing from a first marriage." This is where I think maturity comes in, and people need to realize that they will be constantly changing throughout their life, and need to find a person that is changing in similar ways to their spouse.