A "Happily Ever After" Kind of Girl...

I'm Whit, a good girl who always loved to watch movies on her grandpa's big screen. I grew-up watching fairy tales, Disney movies, Cosby, Full House, and Growing Pains. I have always considered myself a "happily ever after" girl as I have never liked movies that are particularly depressing or gory. And yes, I realize, to my shame, that this means that I have probably not "cultured" myself the way that most young adults my age have. I used to be okay with this and told my friends, "I get enough of the real world outside of the movie theater; when I go see a movie I want it to entertain and uplift, and if it can't do that, then I genuinely enjoy a good numbing." However, within the last year, I have begun to realize that movies, like books and newspapers and magazines can reflect back to us the culture in which we live. Thus, I am trying something new by seeing movies for the sake of what I may learn, as well as, what I may enjoy. My boyfriend loves this; he has always hated the sappy happy endings of my favorite films, and finds it very amusing to watch me squirm and jump out of my seat while we are "engaging" in say, a thriller.

To say the least, I am excited to learn more about the underlying themes and meanings in today's pop culture; playing the analyst has always been one of my favorite roles in life. It doesn't hurt either, that this course will help me attain the number of units I need to graduate this coming May. As of then, I hope to be writing at some low paying publication, and keeping my head afloat while living with my best friend and saving the world one sentence at a time. Writing is my passion, more than movies or any other thing really; although I do feel like I have a certain kindred with movies, and music too, because of the way all three have the potential to stick in people's subconscious and change them from the inside out. I am, as you may have guessed by now, an idealist and a romantic in almost every way. I hope that this course won't ruin me too completely in that, but that I can use it to continue writing about hope even as I write about the depravity.