Can We Really Learn From a Script?

We all have done it, sat up and screamed “Exactly” at the movie or television screen when the script writer has given the perfect answer to the actor or actress and they have displayed in such a way that it is obvious that no one would be able to miss it. However, is it that obvious? Can we all get that subtle hint that is being nudged in our general direction? Can we really learn love from a script? Men, I have noticed, are so uneager to attend the proverbial “chic flick” for one reason and one reason only-FEAR. Fear that they are going to be scrutinized every minute that the female that they with are will be analyzing every thing they have done up until that point and may decide that they need to move to greener and plusher pastures. However, what the men do not realize is that the girls are on that same date thinking “What haven’t I done to make him want to be like that with me”. So you see, the “chic flick” is not just torture for the male species but for the female mind as well. We go to these movies or watch these television shows because we want to know that true love is out there, that in some form love is real, tangible, and in bloom. We want to think that the unimaginable is actually plausible. That someday that one person who didn’t think that “happy” was attainable can look in the mirror and see that happy was just around the corner that whole time waiting. Script writers bring out emotions deep inside that we try to say are not really there, that we say we do not feel for the fear of hurt and sorrow. We have become afraid of love and affection, afraid of the need of human contact. We allow ourselves to become involved in the movies and in the television because we know its not forever. We can relate to that shortness of time and inevitability that it will leave someday. We cannot equate that in real life trials and tribulations. We cannot establish in our hearts that level of readiness for the end in love, so we form walls and build hard shells in hopes to keep those feelings from getting all the way through. Maybe some day we will learn to “Hear” and “Learn” from the script writers. Maybe we can actually live a page or two from our beloved movies and hopefully maybe just maybe, we can find that true love isn’t just $8.50 and the phrase “Pass the popcorn”.