Movies-into-Brain-Seeping

As modern women, our romantic lives are sort-of prescripted by what we've seen people in the movies do. We see movie people in all kinds of private moments where we never see friends and neighbors, and we incorporate a huge movie-character database into negotiations of our own love lives. It's inevitable.

As we all know, movies have their conventions: Boy meets, gets girl, misunderstanding, happy ending. Unhappily, romantic movie conventions have the tendency to seep into our unconscious, motivating us to follow, neither our hearts nor our minds, but our dim memories of what Julia Roberts said to Richard Gere.

When the creative minds from whence our movies flow are sensible, intelligent and humorous, movies-into-brain-seeping works in our favor.

When the creative minds from whence our movies flow are dweebish, heedless of history, psychologically uninformed,self-involved, and shallow, as is very often the case, we can still benefit - we can gain helpful insights of how powerful and
shallow people would produce a world; we can learn by negative example.

Thumbs up or down, movie worlds afford us the accumulated romantic experience of lifetimes of very intelligent people, male and female, on specific guy-related issues we face every day of our lives.

If we only knew where to look.