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Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 14]
Drake had boxes of tissues scattered about the classroom today. No reason.
"We've gone over a lot of romantic -- or not so romantic -- types of love in this class," he said, "but I wanted to touch on one other type of love before the end of the semester. And that's the love of family and friends. You find that type of love in all sorts of movies, especially when heroes are goaded into action to protect their family, or when mother makes a sacrifice to save her child, or when friends are there to take care of one another. I've got two examples for you today, and they're both on the tearjerker side.
"Beaches is a movie about long friendship, specifically between Hillary Whitney and CC Bloom. They meet as children on the beach, and their friendship carries on through their lives as they go to school and begin careers and relationships. The have a period of estrangement but eventually reunite and realize that their feud could have been avoided by honesty and an appreciation of each other's qualities. Hillary is diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy and at first takes it out on CC, but CC does everything she can to make Hillary's last days comfortable. After her friend's death, CC raises Hillary's daughter, Victoria, and tells her story after story about her mother to keep her memory alive.
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about a successful young woman, Siddalee, who had an unhappy childhood. Comments about this make it into a magazine article, which her mother, Viviane, reads and becomes offended and wants nothing to do with her daughter anymore. Viviane's friends, the other members of the 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' of the title, visit Siddalee and kidnap her so they can tell her the story of her mother's life and give some context to the painful memories of her childhood. In the end, Siddalee is able to understand and forgive her mother, leading to the restoration of their relationship.
"So do you think any type of love is stronger? Romantic, family, friends? Do you think there are any qualities, such as forgiveness, that come easier to a romantic or a non-romantic love?"
"We've gone over a lot of romantic -- or not so romantic -- types of love in this class," he said, "but I wanted to touch on one other type of love before the end of the semester. And that's the love of family and friends. You find that type of love in all sorts of movies, especially when heroes are goaded into action to protect their family, or when mother makes a sacrifice to save her child, or when friends are there to take care of one another. I've got two examples for you today, and they're both on the tearjerker side.
"Beaches is a movie about long friendship, specifically between Hillary Whitney and CC Bloom. They meet as children on the beach, and their friendship carries on through their lives as they go to school and begin careers and relationships. The have a period of estrangement but eventually reunite and realize that their feud could have been avoided by honesty and an appreciation of each other's qualities. Hillary is diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy and at first takes it out on CC, but CC does everything she can to make Hillary's last days comfortable. After her friend's death, CC raises Hillary's daughter, Victoria, and tells her story after story about her mother to keep her memory alive.
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about a successful young woman, Siddalee, who had an unhappy childhood. Comments about this make it into a magazine article, which her mother, Viviane, reads and becomes offended and wants nothing to do with her daughter anymore. Viviane's friends, the other members of the 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' of the title, visit Siddalee and kidnap her so they can tell her the story of her mother's life and give some context to the painful memories of her childhood. In the end, Siddalee is able to understand and forgive her mother, leading to the restoration of their relationship.
"So do you think any type of love is stronger? Romantic, family, friends? Do you think there are any qualities, such as forgiveness, that come easier to a romantic or a non-romantic love?"
Discussion [L&R: Class Fourteen]
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She bit a thumbnail and added, "I'm not saying family is easy. It isn't. And sometimes people do things that make them not family to each other. But it's the kind of love I know best."
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Like her parents.
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"I think it depends entirely on the situation. Some people are closer to their friends and significant others than they have ever been with their relatives and that makes them family." She twisted a strand of hair around her finger.