119 min

.....why couldn't it just be 120 minutes? Why do all movies seem to hover at 93, 119, or 126 minutes? So-119 minutes. 119 minutes is how long it takes for movie characters to meet, fall in love, (possibly break up or have a couple kids too), and then end up together. Ok, so not every movie involving men and woman (which seems to be most of them), begins, endures, or ends like this. But lately I have been thinking how slow my love life seems to move. And by love life I mean the life that I mostly am just trying to figure out if it exists, or if it is just in my head. In the movies things move to progressively, so assuradly, and so predictably that most of us gripping our popcorn in "suspense" can call all the shots. More than once I have found myself frustrated by the slow passage of time. Yes, poor me, led astray from reality by the big, bad Hollywood....and poor you, subjected to listening. But this is not, in fact, a useless rant. As a matter of fact, it is simply an observation of my unrealistic expectations, and a lament of my beautiful, wonderful, impatient, and often utterly unreasonable feminine heart.