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I Hate You, Hollywood.
February 26, 2008Remember the movie Shopgirl? After a painful revelation, Mirabelle (Claire Danes) asked, So, I can either hurt now or hurt later.
Guess which one she chose.
You don’t understand, of course, why it’s important to me to hurt now rather than later. But that’s not what I really find strange. What I find odd is that I’m hurting like this over you, and it sucks all the more because I know this pain isn’t uniquely my own. Hollywood got to this before I did. In fact, if it so chooses, it could mock me now with a voice-over: As Ray Porter watches Mirabelle walk away he feels a loss. How is it possible, he thinks, to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her. Only then does he realize that wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both and how he cannot justify his actions except that… well… it was life.
I think, right now, I hate you Hollywood.






