After a quick post of this title there were several women adding that they had just recently done this as well. There at the bottom of the thread was a comment from a male friend asking why this was such a big deal for a woman to go alone to the movies. Let me clear this up boys. The movies are for dates. Sweet dates where boys yawn and stretch and then "cleverly" put their arm around you as it comes back down. The movies are for couples who actually find the same movie they can both sit through. The movies are for girls...gaggles of them...to watch movies about how girls rock or how women are strong. But to sit in a theater with a beverage and a bag of popcorn all by ourselves??? C'mon now. This means to society that we can't find one lone soul to join us at the cinema. The thought of doing it solo would horrify many. Maybe even me a few years ago. But tonight I felt like seeing a movie and it was so last minute that I didn't even want to send out the signal. I needed to not waste anymore time today. I needed a movie I wanted to watch...not one I had to compromise to see. That movie was The Help.
I have seen this damn book on every single lap of every single woman for months...to the point that I groan when I spot it. But I've heard good reviews. I parked. Walked up to the ticket guy and said..."Which movie is the best?". He picked it as well so in I went. Bag of popcorn and an icy cold soda and a packed house full of couples, gaggles of women and rows and rows of friends. And me...and I didn't even care. Not a thought about being alone. Just glad to be doing something nice after a brutal week of real life. Funny, as I sat there watching this film I began to realize how much life compared to the ones I was watching on the screen wasn't so bad. The movie was excellent. It had many of the formulas I enjoy in a film. It also reminded me that truth and writing will free us emotionally...and a girl who has been wondering about both of those things really needed to see that theme. Will some of you grunt when you see what movie I went to see? Yep. Will others of you be disappointed in my choice? Probably. That's alright though... and so was going to the movie all by my lonesome!!!
Yay. I did this, finally, and with Brokeback Mountain at PCT. It was on my list of 30 things to do before turning 30. And after the initial "One for Brokeback Mountain" at the ticket booth, i didn't look back.
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