Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Well dear reader at the end I will ask you a few questions. I was watching How Stella Got Her Groove Back (the movie with Angela Bassett and the oh so tasty Taye Diggs). Stella thought she had everything, a good job, a nice house and a son that would make her breakfast. Her son goes to stay with his father for 2 weeks, and then she was left to entertain herself on lonely rainy night. She sees this commercial with the perfect images of Jamaica, you know the images that make it that paradise in the sun that you want to go to, (if only you could just afford it). Well, Stella having an amazing job as a stock broker decides that her and her best friend (Whoopi Goldberg) are going to Jamaica and let their hair down and party like they used to. One morning when she is out for her ritual run (yeah I know she has a disgustingly beautiful body in the movie…what does she need a run for?) she comes back to the resort for breakfast and meets the young (20 year old) Winston who ends up being the object of her affection. Stella happens to be a 40 year old divorced woman with a son, which Winston later finds out. When Stella gets back from her 2 weeks in Jamaica she gets canned from her job because her boss is a selfish son of a bitch who didn’t want to lose his job. It didn’t matter how much money Stella had made the company or anything, her train at that station had left. Anyway needless to say her relationship carries on with Winston and she goes back and then eventually he comes to America and blah blah blah. My question is “How does one going about getting her/his groove back?” Does said person have to lose their job, or source of stability? Do they have to find a younger person to have a relationship with? Do they have to take an amazing vacation to an ‘enchanted’ land to meet said relationship person? If the ‘groove’ is lost, doesn’t there have to be some stage of admittance and then you go on the journey to get it back? Did in this case, the character Stella, really lose her groove or did she just hit a bad patch? I guess the answer lies within each of us and every person has their own reasoning and answers behind it, it just makes me wonder, doesn’t it make YOU?
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Very thought provoking post! I think getting your groove back is a state of mind. For Stella she had to go on vacation and fall in love with a younger man. She really did lose her groove because the 'bad patch' she was in was there to stay until she went to Jamaica.
But this is all inconsequential to those of us who never lost their groove in the first place! Dont you agree??
I'm glad you found the post a bit interesting. I totally agree with you that the bad patch was to stay until she decided to leave for Jamaica, what if per chance Stella happened to be one of those lucky people that got a wind-fall and got a better job then she had and life went better then before? Then i guess the movie would have been a lot different i guess. For those of who haven't lost their groove,yes, it isn't something that would be bothering them. But to counter, what if you had the chance of a lifetime to improve the groove you had or get lessons to get a groove? Do you think there would be many takers? Thanks for the comment, gave me a chance to think about some different perspectives.
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