I just finished watching this movie about an hour ago, and though it's honestly one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen, like most movies, it "rings with truth" (phrase taken from Brave, haha :)
The gist of the movie is that this poor bartender likes this girl who is only into rich men, and eventually gets himself broke trying to please her and then becomes like that girl, too. He becomes someone who has to stick with rich (old) women to provide things for him. Eventually, this bartender and that young girl fall in love with each other (though it could be argued highly only based on lust). I also don't understand why this movie has to be rated R. Definitely PG-13 - and there is cussing, drinking, and sex but they don't even show anything inappropriate and it's actually a really funny movie. But anyways...
I always think of how for myself, being charmed lasts longer than being attracted to, and then I was surprised by what Audrey Tautou (who plays Irène) says: "Le charme, c'est mieux que la beauté. On peut résister a la beauté, mais pas au charme" - which translated means, "Charm is more valuable than beauty. We can resist beauty, but charm is irresistible." Which is certainly very, very true, because I've had experiences of such. All the guys I've been attracted to .. well it takes me a while to remember who they are or were - and those that I might have ended up "liking", I got over them in like .. what, two days? So no, attraction doesn't cut it. The attraction towards them was mostly towards looks. Charm is definitely a lot more "powerful". And I'd kind of just like to talk about what charms me just because I don't think I've yet discussed it in depth here before, because I think charm is different for other people...
The first guy, only exactly two people know/have known about him and I had a reason why I kept him kind of secretive. He wasn't very good looking, although he could have been if he tried harder, and he was actually pretty knowledgeable in things I was interested in so of course that led me to want to talk to him more. I'm not going to say I liked him, he was definitely a little crush, though, I didn't care if he was around other girls. I think I found him charming because it was kind of fun to kind of argue a bit in class discussions - 'arguments' of who knew more of their stuff, and then it was definitely fun talking about this stuff. We only talked in class, though. There was that one performance night where I got to talked to him lots and I think my friend could tell that I found him interesting, ahaha. And I was pretty happy that throughout the whole performance, he never sat in the audience - but during the performance I was in, he sat in the back and watched and then again for the rest of the performance stayed backstage for who on Earth knows why but I'm just still take it as what I thought it was. Definitely, from time to time I wonder where we'd be if I legitimately started talking to him more. What stopped me at the time was that it was weird finding a white guy interesting because at that time, I didn't usually do that..
Le deuxieme garçon I met pretty recently, haha.. and only talked to him (barely) for three days, last day of school - when I had two whole quarters with him and essentially never noticed he was there. Unfortunately, he was and is already taken (he's probably still taken, haha). He wasn't very attractive either - looked nice when he smiled though - but I don't know, I can't even explain why I found him so charming. Mostly, with these two guys, I didn't even think of what I had to say, it just clicked pretty naturally.
And actually, I think the reason why I keep writing about this stuff is because I actually think I'm finding the idea of having a 'gentleman friend' more and more attractive. I'm not going to be actively looking for one, but somehow I remind myself to want to find that charm again, so that may be some kind of motivator, perhaps? I mean hey I'm not going to lie - I'm pretty, smart, and talented (I don't have a lot of money, though, aha.. but I will one day!), I just haven't felt like using such virtues to reel in some guy. But on top of that, I must also add that I'm not very patient nor compassionate and I also hate guys like 97% of the time so that will keep me from doing anything stupid for the time being ;)
The gist of the movie is that this poor bartender likes this girl who is only into rich men, and eventually gets himself broke trying to please her and then becomes like that girl, too. He becomes someone who has to stick with rich (old) women to provide things for him. Eventually, this bartender and that young girl fall in love with each other (though it could be argued highly only based on lust). I also don't understand why this movie has to be rated R. Definitely PG-13 - and there is cussing, drinking, and sex but they don't even show anything inappropriate and it's actually a really funny movie. But anyways...
I always think of how for myself, being charmed lasts longer than being attracted to, and then I was surprised by what Audrey Tautou (who plays Irène) says: "Le charme, c'est mieux que la beauté. On peut résister a la beauté, mais pas au charme" - which translated means, "Charm is more valuable than beauty. We can resist beauty, but charm is irresistible." Which is certainly very, very true, because I've had experiences of such. All the guys I've been attracted to .. well it takes me a while to remember who they are or were - and those that I might have ended up "liking", I got over them in like .. what, two days? So no, attraction doesn't cut it. The attraction towards them was mostly towards looks. Charm is definitely a lot more "powerful". And I'd kind of just like to talk about what charms me just because I don't think I've yet discussed it in depth here before, because I think charm is different for other people...
The first guy, only exactly two people know/have known about him and I had a reason why I kept him kind of secretive. He wasn't very good looking, although he could have been if he tried harder, and he was actually pretty knowledgeable in things I was interested in so of course that led me to want to talk to him more. I'm not going to say I liked him, he was definitely a little crush, though, I didn't care if he was around other girls. I think I found him charming because it was kind of fun to kind of argue a bit in class discussions - 'arguments' of who knew more of their stuff, and then it was definitely fun talking about this stuff. We only talked in class, though. There was that one performance night where I got to talked to him lots and I think my friend could tell that I found him interesting, ahaha. And I was pretty happy that throughout the whole performance, he never sat in the audience - but during the performance I was in, he sat in the back and watched and then again for the rest of the performance stayed backstage for who on Earth knows why but I'm just still take it as what I thought it was. Definitely, from time to time I wonder where we'd be if I legitimately started talking to him more. What stopped me at the time was that it was weird finding a white guy interesting because at that time, I didn't usually do that..
Le deuxieme garçon I met pretty recently, haha.. and only talked to him (barely) for three days, last day of school - when I had two whole quarters with him and essentially never noticed he was there. Unfortunately, he was and is already taken (he's probably still taken, haha). He wasn't very attractive either - looked nice when he smiled though - but I don't know, I can't even explain why I found him so charming. Mostly, with these two guys, I didn't even think of what I had to say, it just clicked pretty naturally.
And actually, I think the reason why I keep writing about this stuff is because I actually think I'm finding the idea of having a 'gentleman friend' more and more attractive. I'm not going to be actively looking for one, but somehow I remind myself to want to find that charm again, so that may be some kind of motivator, perhaps? I mean hey I'm not going to lie - I'm pretty, smart, and talented (I don't have a lot of money, though, aha.. but I will one day!), I just haven't felt like using such virtues to reel in some guy. But on top of that, I must also add that I'm not very patient nor compassionate and I also hate guys like 97% of the time so that will keep me from doing anything stupid for the time being ;)
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