Movies

I did take Forever Amber back to the library. I just realized that I want to check the story on ZsaZsa Gabor that I just read at yahoo and left to come here. I had mentioned her in connection with Amber and voila ! no sooner said than I read where she fell off her bed and suffered broken bones. I was a bit upset about the coincidence but in truth there are many ways in which ZSAZSA shares a lot in common with Amber. There are so many actresses who follow that same plotline, marrying into rich and famous families, and surviving through marriage to the right rich man. I believe that ZSAZSA started with Conrad Hilton of the Hilton Hotel chain fame.

I had started watching a movie tonight when my computer began to act up on me, and as this movie is about the way the socialists bugged people in East Germany, it made me realize how it is that homes are bugged here in America as well. I have made so many complaints about this act of eavesdropping that it is not funny. I remember when I began my teaching experience they warned us that principals would often stand outside a classroom, listening in through the transoms. It turned out that in my teaching experience we had been listened in by Hollywood writers who used our school system as a model for television stories. The kids were well aware of us and let us, the teachers, know which networks were filming which story about our classrooms so that we would not be totally in the dark.

When I first began teaching in Azusa, the music teacher told me how Hollywood writers will set up situations to see how you will react so that they can write their stories from your behaviour. I finally listened and learned that all these kids and this teacher had not been kidding because that is the way that many stories are written.

While watching this film, I thought of that, because I had always thought to myself, pity the dumb stooge stupid enough to listen in to us. This movie is a reflection of that. But England put out a movie years ago where a woman could be seen walking and we the audience were watching her as her exhusband had been doing, so that one also alerted me to the fact that in real life, that is what happens to some of us too. Another faculty member told me that we never know when we are under observation. We learn soon enough later to know which film it is or t.v. show that is busy playing back all the days of our lives.