This week’s exercises kind of made me laugh just because 1. creating a wonderful smell is a little too apt of a job for a perfumer and 2. everything is a little harder scheduled around a move. I’m not even sure when/how I’ll be able to do my artist’s date – apparently I signed up for a library lecture this week, and I have to do a house blessing at that time.
So, since it’s the lightest of all the tasks, here is my list of 5 favorite movies. I knew what they had in common before I wrote them down:
1. Finnian’s Rainbow
2. Pump up the Volume
3. She’s All That
4. 10 Things I Hate about You
5. Black Snake Moan
Each one speaks to, in some way, causes of social justice and has characters finding ways within and without a given social system to define themselves. They also all have, more or less, happy endings – they send the message that good isn’t easy, but it can prevail. They all also have highly assertive female characters, whether they start that way or not.
