The Citizen, 1999-02-10, Page 38PAGE 38. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1999.
For Teens, By Teens
Love all you need, hut what does it mean?
By Ashley Gropp
After many discussions lately,
I’ve realized something. There is no
real meaning to the world "love".
If you were to get definitions
from 10 different people, you
would probably get at least 10
different answers. The dictionary
seems to respond to that question in
much the same way. Even your
Websters, Funk & Wagnall's and
Oxford dictionaries are without a
standard definition for that word.
The definitions they give are
confusing, vague and at times, even
conflicting.
My Funk and Wagnall defined it
many ways including "a strong
emotion causing one to appreciate,
delight in, or crave the presence or
possession of another; devoted
affection or attachment; sexual
passion or the gratification of it; a
great interest or fondness;
enamoured; to feel affection for; to
take pleasure in; to like very
much."
One friend of mine is currently
dating a guy who has, at least once,
without any notice, stood her up for
a date to go drinking. At the time,
they had been dating a month. »
I have never understood how he
could have done such a thing to the
girl he'd been chasing for a year, or
why such an attractive, kind and
intelligent girl would stay in such a
relationship.
Another friend of mine is, in his
own words, whipped by choice. He
happily opens his girlfriend’s pop
for her, and does everything she
wants, and basically jumps every
time she asks. She often asks him
to because she enjoys proving her
control over him. He follows a long
list of rules, at least appearing
happy. That relationship always
appears so one sided and fake to
me.
There is an acquaintance of mine
who has been known to go with her
boyfriend to the next room to fool
around, leaving friends alone for
long periods of time, thinking
"can't they wait?"
Another couple I know often
seems so wrong for each other. One
has ambitions to move away to the
city, while the other only sees his
life in the area. Their friends and
activities often conflict, but even
under these circumstances they
have been together almost a year
and are happily devoted to one
another.
Each person in the above
relationships claims to be in love.
Most of them I find it so difficult to
understand where the love is, but I
finally realized that the dictionary
never defined love as
"understandable" or "mature".
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Simply a great movie
By Mark Nonkes
Greed is a deadly sin.
A juicy film about money,
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about money found and the trouble
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Three men stumble on a crashed,
snow covered aircraft. Inside the
plane is an amount in excess of $4
million. Lower class Lou, a dim
witted, beer drinking redneck, and
Jacob, who is according to
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seems to distill emotion out of thin
air", want to keep the found money.
Jacob's educated, middle-class,
brother, Hank, resists the idea of
taking the money, but finally gives
in. Also, enter into the plot, Hank's
pregnant wife, Sarah.
Jacob, played by Billy Bob
Thorton, was exceptional in this
film. He was like someone you
know from school. His "slowness"
made him often very funny, yet he
is wiser than he seems to be.
Thorton is Jacob, playing the
character very sincerely and
realistically.
Hank, played by Bill Paxton, also
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an easy character to identify with
and his struggles are
understandable by the person
watching the film.
If there is one weakness with this
film, it is Bridget Fonda. She plays
the role of Sarah, and seems, at
times, too flaky, for the character
she is portraying. However, this is a
very minor criticism, and does not
affect the movie very much.
This movie was so enjoyable
because the setting was so similar
to Blyth or Brussels. The story
could have easily taken place in
these small towns in the winter.
The setting was a small farming
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setting very realistic, never making
small town life seem too trivial or
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Premiere calls the movie, "an
emotionally resonant morality
tale."
Leaving the movie theatre, one
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to society. This is a smaller-
marketed film and is only playing
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in London.
When A Simple Plan appears on
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Maclean's calls it a, "modem brand
of thriller."
The film has fantastic characters,
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