Comment on being seriously disturbed.....

So I haven't been as into movies as I once was, which is no big deal. And by movies, I mean romance movies, some comedies, whatever. Mostly because they aren't real life, and content can be questionable. I've been enjoying more of the blockbuster movies like Ocean's 13 and Bourne Ultimatum-those aren't real either but I can't feel sad about my lack of romance in my life as I'm watching Matt Damon hurdle rooftops in a single bound.


So I try to be more cautious about the movies I see, although sometimes I can be caught off guard, like when I went and saw Fool's Gold which was disturbing in an "I can't believe I spent money on this" kind of way. Which brings me to the most recent movie I saw in the theater which nobody warned me about:


You may be surprised that I would list 'The Other Boleyn Girl' under something I was seriously disturbed about, but I was. I mean I knew what the basic premise of the book was, I had read Shannon's review under her Movie Mavens blog and I thought ok, I'll probably see it eventually. When I came up to Pocatello my sister wanted to see it and so I thought hey, why not. So we went.

I did get into the movie, and I was really enjoying it, as was my sister-who loved the book. We were equally horrified at the audacity of the men in the movie basically whoring out the boleyn sisters (the uncle was especially terrible) for the betterment of the family's social status, and Anne's treatment of her sister-and we made several comments throughout. I was thinking that I really should read the book because it was all quite fascinating-until near the end of the movie-when Anne full-on wants to have sex with her BROTHER, which Jenna informed me actually did happen in the book and possibly happened in real life because Anne produced a deformed child-but anyway I just looked at my sister with this horrified look on my face and told her that I needed to go home and watch a disney movie (it was close, we watched Arrested Development and Biggest Loser). We were going to stop off at the mall so I could get a temple dress on the way home but I didn't feel like that was appropriate after being so disturbed about the idea of incest. I mean seriously-I could have used a little warning team. In fact if anyone goes and sees any movie I would appreciate a heads up. On everything. And needless to say I won't be reading the book anytime soon, or ever. I mean seriously. In fact I came home and went back to reading a safe book, Harry Potter. Much better.....