Monday, March 17, 2008

St. Elmo's fire isn't hard to get

St Elmo's fire isn't real. - Rob Lowe, St. Elmo's Fire

Like the statement above, your preconceived notions that you know anything about anything - they aren't real.
Take the movie, for example...You spew rhetoric and gush over it but... I highly doubt your hypothalamus was ever really able to comprehend the magnitude of it's impact on twenty something college grads during its time. You probably just went along with the cute coupled thoughts of peers hanging out at a bar after work.
I don't claim omniscient knowledge of the inner workings of the flick from the director's point of view, but I do claim comprehension of the concepts, emotions and the myriad subtle sub-plots that the characters tried to portray that you will NEVER understand.
The female leads, for one, are independent women who have a backbone - something you apparently forgot to grow.
St. Elmo's fire was mine before your saccharine brain even began its laborious duty of trying to understand some of the concepts tackled in the film.
The storyline is simple enough. You should get it.
Watch the film another twenty times...lets hope you at least get the plot this time.

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