Is dated 1985 the idea that "we are livin' in a material world and (we are) material girl(s)". More than 20 years later things aren't change yet and the question here is an ancient, a very, very old one: can money buy everything? And with everything we're of course talkin' about love too. Another date: 1993. It's in 1993 that director Adrian Lyne brings on scene a story based on this endless question in "what was first: the chicken or the egg?" perfect style, with his movie "Indecent Proposal", where a millionaire tries to buy the love (or, at least, one of her nights) of a young woman and wife, apparently destroying a great love, right the one you see on the screens, the one which pass from fulfil your heart to break it in a dime.
The question is: is the end of Indecent Proposal applicable to reality or not? I think people often forget about the most significant part of this movie; they all say Diana accepts John's money (and her husband too, even if with second thoughts) and that, at a certain point, she ends with falling in love with him, forgetting her loving husband. But what about the end? The end tells us another story, a different one, the one who people tend to forget: it tells us of a Diana keeping back to David, the story of two soulmates that, after all, had never stop looking for each other. To belong to each other.
So maybe that's the lesson, that's how things in life just go, even in a material one, even in the case where money could actually save you and the one you love from hard times (as in the story of Diana and David where there's a true need of money, due to necessity and not to a greed feeling); maybe, sometimes, money can really buy you for a while, but the redemption way to coming back feeling fine with ourselves is right behind the corner as the chance to save yourselves from getting totally lost. Maybe the rebirth is not so far as you believe. Maybe, for a while, maybe 'cause you lost your mind or just because you're tired of doing sacrifices to get nothing in return, you start to be for rent, even for sell to the highest bidder; but if you're a good person (because of course it depends on who you are and always have been) you can save yourself and, like in the movie, your feelings and love too.
It's never too late, we all make mistakes and the only ones not excusable are the ones during which you keep don't figure out that you are wrong, when you keep not to apologize though you've caused pain to the ones you love the most.
After all, in life it's always all about choosing and feeling fine with ourselves and the ones we care about, 'cause they are the court of our existences.
...and to not mention "Roxanne". We'll talk about her another time...
Monday, October 5, 2009
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