So, I saw this movie the other day, which could easily be the worse movie I've seen in the last five years, maybe ten. This movie that I'm talking about is REMEMBER ME. And the thing about it is that I really wanted to like it. And there was a lot of stuff in it to like, but the ending, wow. Whoever wrote that ending should be water boarded for five straight days, I shit you not it's that bad. But that is not why I'm writing this not at all.
One of the really good pieces of this movie was the relationship that Robert Pattinson and the girl that played his sister had. It was something special. And in the movie his sister is a genius. Well maybe she's not a genius, but she is just one of those really great unique kids. One of those kids that has so much to offer the world and that one day might even change it, if only she can make it out of grade school, and junior high, and high school. I say that because she is not the girl that fits in, she is not the girl that hangs out with all the popular girls.
In the movie, pretty much the most tragic part about the movie, she goes to a slumber party that she doesn't even want to go to with all of these popular kids and they end up cutting one side of her hair. I remember being in the movie and when I saw it I was so disguised with it that I actually started to cry. Probably one of the most sickening things that I've seen in a movie. I fucking hate thinking about it, because that's how it is. You have these jerk off groups of girls and boys growing up that have this overwhelming since of entitlement and they always seem to get away with anything with no consequences. And the kids that are like this girl in the movie end up getting crushed. Not all of them, I mean some of these kids are able to pick themselves up and go on to do great things, but some of them never really quite recover from this.
And the crazy thing about this whole situation is that those jerk off kids of entitlement that the movie is talking about, I new those kids in real life. I mean everybody does, and it's those same jerk off kids that will go and see that movie and think about how sad that situation is even though seven, ten, twelve years ago they were those kids. And sometimes I just can't stomach it. Because that girl that gets her hair cut in the movie, I was her. I was a fairly smart kid, that was very awkward, and so terribly clumsy that I was always falling out of chairs or making a complete idiot of myself in class. I was the kid that wasn't wearing name brand like the rest of the cool kids. I just got lucky because for whatever reason I was somewhat good at sports, and I could laugh at myself and own the fact that I was such a clumsy idiot that everyone laughing at me never really fazed me. I just got kind of lucky that I matched to a little bit of a different beat and that what people thought about me wasn't really the biggest concern of mine.
But the thing is, everybody isn't that lucky. everybody can't laugh it off, and they aren't athletic so they don't get accepted just because. And that sucks. It sucks that we live in a world where no matter what age you are people will use the things that make you unique as a way to sort of put you down. I just wish that I could talk to those kids. I wish I could tell them that these years will just be a hiccup in their lives. And that years from now who was the most popular kid in school or being in the "in crowd" doesn't really matter. I wish I could let them know that being different is the coolest choice you could make, and that you will meet all of those people again on their long journey to the middle. But I know that I won't be able to tell them that, so I'll just have to tell my kids. I'll have to tell them that it's okay to be different, that all those quirky things that people might make fun of makes you what you are. And I'll tell them to never fall in line with a mob, and to stand up for those that may not be able to stand up for themselves, because someday someone might stand up for you.
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