Bugz Bunny Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) Ok...I just watched this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284971/and it just made me angry how the character that was played by Josh Brolin reacted about infidelity (his W f***** with his best friend)...He just smiled and forgave them and they are all great friends after everything ... In real life there is no one sane that will just smile and get over it like that... Hollywood is just making a joke with infidelity... Edited October 13, 2011 by Bugz Bunny
Snowflower Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Ok...I just watched this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284971/and it just made me angry how the character that was played by Josh Brolin reacted about infidelity (his W f***** with his best friend)...He just smiled and forgave them and they are all great friends after everything ... In real life there is no one sane that will just smile and get over it like that... Hollywood is just making a joke with infidelity... I agree...and would add that Hollywood just feeds into the stereotypes that surround affairs such as: The affair is somehow at least partially the fault of the BS (this is a huge stereotype in almost all movies/shows/books that deal with infidelity). The affair involves a married man with a much younger version of his wife. Or, the married woman having an affair with her trainer. The BS leaves and finds a much more handsome new man (or beautiful woman) to replace their cheating spouse. Infidelity is easy to get over. Yep, Hollywood does not help us as a culture understand infidelity which is one of the few taboo subjects left today. If anything, it reinforces the stereotypes that exist and they are obvious here on LS or IRL.
Citizen Erased Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 Hollywood isn't the real world. The people in it however live lives like that. Cheating = media opportunity, which = more money. It's easy to be cavalier about issues like cheating when you're soulless, money grubbing whores.
Spark1111 Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 I agree...and would add that Hollywood just feeds into the stereotypes that surround affairs such as: The affair is somehow at least partially the fault of the BS (this is a huge stereotype in almost all movies/shows/books that deal with infidelity). The affair involves a married man with a much younger version of his wife. Or, the married woman having an affair with her trainer. The BS leaves and finds a much more handsome new man (or beautiful woman) to replace their cheating spouse. Infidelity is easy to get over. Yep, Hollywood does not help us as a culture understand infidelity which is one of the few taboo subjects left today. If anything, it reinforces the stereotypes that exist and they are obvious here on LS or IRL. Hahaha! I agree! Hollywood romanticizes every subject: from murder, to mystery, to sci-fi to infidelity.....that's what movies do, suspend disbelief and make it seem as if it could be true and plausible. When I think of all the projection and questions after discovering my spouse's infidelity, I could laugh at how "Hollywood based" those reactions were: Was she younger, prettier, smarter. more accomplished, a better housekeeper, a better mother, a whore with a heart of gold, blah, blah, blah..... Ugh NO! She wasn't Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Natalie Portman, Diane Lane, or Angelina Jolie (THIS FROM WOMEN, who must have believed all the Hollywood hype). So sexist! So steretypical! Sooo Hollywood.
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