STEP ONE

i like her. she likes me.

CHARACTER BACKGROUND (the mirror has two faces)

i am kinda an example in, well, hypocrisy or fine-balance. i love (yes, i brought out the stalker word) meg ryan. i hold a special place for sandra bullock. i have seen "home alone" an embarrassing amount of times and memorized 90% of the dialogue. at the same time i try to analyze bergman, check out books on bunel, and have watched "la jetee" twice. i take that has some contradiction.

FIRST ACT

she comes over do to some homework. a couple cents short of a dime, but nice nonetheless. the TV is on, as the niners choke again. i flip around after the conclusion of said bout and TNT is playing "sleepless in seattle." as a meg ryan fan and devotee of the film i stop the flipping. girl immediately exclaims, "ohhhh i love this." i second her excitement. she asks if i'm sarcastic, and if i actually know the flick from just the appearance of meg and rosie o'donnell across the screen. i confirm that i do.

we continue to watch the movie. in the mean-time i find out she is a kevin mccallister fan as well. she knows the last line of "you've got mail" and likes romantic comedies (a guilty pleasure of mine.)

SECOND ACT

so i have three posters on my walls: , , . she says of deniro, "oh that’s not how i think of bobby. he looks too mean there." she says she thinks of him best in "midnight run" (directed by my favorite "gigli" director.) she's never seen "the godfather" and has a weird reaction to "breathless" being a french film. she's seems even more perplexed that i have copies of "weekend" and "pierre le fou" by the VCR.

when i tell her that meg ryan is my guilty pleasure, she tells me that's a weird way of looking at her. i say, "most film snob people think of her acting and movies as merely fluff and simple, popcorn entertainment." to which she replies, "that's what movies are."

further when i delve into romantic comedies she's never heard of "the apartment", didn't know about "the shop around the corner," and called that i knew the directors' names "trivia facts."

THIRD ACT

i get some homework, the movie ends on the empire state building, and i go off to the cafeteria. i didn't make nor try to make any intimate progression (quasi-got a somebody else), but this all got me (over)analyzing and thinking.

CURTAIN FALLS

busted girl likes brakhage? that make her "better?"
nice girl never heard of billy wilder? that make her "worse?"
for the okp movieheads, S.O.'s cinematic taste affect their overall person?

STEP TWO??