Once a week at work, all the residents on a given program will get together and watch a movie they've voted on and that the staff has approved. Usually, most of the votes are for some anime thing nobody is ever going to approve, and then a random mainstream movie will win by getting, like, two votes. Last night, the movie was "She's Just Not That Into You", and it devolved to me to help them "process" the film when it was done. Processing a film basically means talking about it with the guys and, if any scenes triggered any kind of bad memories or inappropriate thoughts, we try to talk through it.
My response, when I received an e-mail from the clinical supervisor telling me which movie I'd be processing this week, was something like "How am I going to help them process it when I plan on having gouged out my own eyes 20 minutes into the movie?" He strongly suggested I find a way, adding that once when I'd taken a night off he'd ended up processing "Bend it Like Beckham" and so that I sort of, like, owed him one and it was maybe time to take one for the team.*
Anyway, I was pretty amazed by how non-eye-gougingly-terrible the movie was. It was sort of cute, all things considered. Like The Rules of Attraction meets When Harry Met Sally. Also, because the sexual content was fairly tame, there was no actual substance abuse on camera and because basically everybody got a happyish ending, there were very few negative feelings to process.
I mean, it was definitely a Kelly Kapoor-ish movie, but if you had to sit down and watch a movie with Kelly Kapoor, this would be the one to watch.
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* My best sports were always tennis and chess, so I don't really have a great concept of "taking one for the team." I am, however, familiar with the notion of a pawn sacrifice, which is more/less the position I felt I was in.
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I saw the movie too and was upset how it either contradicted itself or gave up trying in each storyline. Also what sort of yuppie headhunter smokes American Spirits?
Yeah, overall I'd say it was a movie about changing behavior and expectations in which, by the end, nobody had changed their behavior or expectations and pretty much everybody had what they wanted anyway. But it was cute and I got a few laughs, which made it so much better than I'd feared it would be.
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