BOC "Whatever Works"

The thirty minute clip that we watched in class today was short, but very entertaining. I felt that the sense of humor used in this film was very sarcastic, witty and intelligent. The daughter of two parents from the south, whom are very in tuned with their roots decided to run away to New York. She meets a man, who is much older than her and ends up getting married. The man that she is married to holds a reputation among his colleagues as genius. He is so much in to himself, that his perception on the world seems to be none thing but negative insight on how human civilization has failed. It seems to have somewhat of an effect on his wife I began to notice later in the clip. Since this paper is about her mother I’m going to get to the point. One day the wife gets an unexpected knock on the door. On the other side of the door was her mother. She was very surprised because she did not expect her to find her after running away. Anyways, long story short, the mother begins to completely change after staying with her daughter in the city of New York. Her mother finds a calling, and decides to embrace it. She meets a man, and that man opens her eyes into believing in herself. She has a skill and a passion for art and photography. With her new found free spiritual mentality, she begins to have more of an open mind and optimistic approach on certain situations that she would have never even though of back in the south. She takes these skills with her new found confidence and ends up meeting another man, whom is friends with the man she is already seeing.  This man happened to own an art gallery and gave her the opportunity to display her work. She became very excited over this new found way of thinking and opportunity. So much that she ends up being in a relationship with both men, all living in the same home. So within this thirty minute clip I was able to see how much art takes an influence on your inner spirit. I don’t mean this in a negative way either. She finally was able to express herself in ways that she was only able to dream of and one point in her life, but now she is living it. She is filled with confidence and is happy with her current relationship. Art has opened her up into becoming who she always wanted to be. You need to take a risk in life to get what you want. If she would have never packed her bags, see her daughter, or meet these men, she would have still been in a negative and depressed state of mind still trying to figure out who she is.