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First, it was the Legend of 1900, then it was 27 Dresses…

It may be simply coincidence, or it could be because of the fact that I am only befriended with a particular group of people.

But I guess you can see how shocked I was when two different people recommended me to watch two different movies with two different reasons to watch them, and only after I’ve watched them that I remembered that she asked me to download for her and watch them.

27 Dresses is actually a quite stereotypical story about my-Mr.Right-is-dating-my-sister kind of things.Although there were some twist in the story, such as the “intruder” of the relationship, Kevin Doyle, who actively pursued Jane while she was left out by her Mr. Right, it is overall no more than an ordinary love story for the young girls.

However, there was one sense of the movie that I particularly like, was when Kevin was teaching Jane to say no in a bar.

Saying no is actually quite difficult, especially if you have to say no to someone special (in Jane’s case, it was her sister Tess). Many people choose to keep quiet over things that they are in discomfort with so that they could have a healthy relationship with the others.

However, such relationship are not likely to stay long because the it is already tainted, and as emotional creatures as human have always known as, the dirt in the relationship will explode if it is kept in the dark for too long.

In the movie, when Jane finally exposed what type of person Tess truly was, and therefore caused Tess to break up with Brian, it was understandable that Tess hated Jane for quite a long period. However, Jane did the right thing by preventing both her Mr. Right and her sister to fall into a tragedy in love.

It took her great courage to do so, knowing she may end up losing both Tess and Brian.

Tres bien, Jane, and to everyone reading this: learn to say no if you are not comfortable.

At least, that is what I always tried to do in my life.

And I have to say, the most powerful entity in this universe is nothing else but women.

Men could be fearless in front of death, men could be fearless in front of being beaten, but one thing that almost every single man is afraid of, is losing the woman in his heart.

This special woman could have many names: mother, lover, wife, daughter, and many more, but once the woman take away his heart, this man is no longer fearless.

I remembered once reading a Chinese novel saying that there used to be this woman who is strikingly beautiful and every single man who ever looked at her would be charmed by her.

She used her beauty to literally make the world she hoped to be, made thing happening exactly the way she wanted to see. Until in the end, when some people started to rebel against her and were trying to kill her.

However, the biggest problem they had, was that no matter what type of assassin they sent to take away her life, the assassin would always charmed by her.

In the end, they sent in a guy (sorry, apparently the author did not think ladies could be good assassins too, which I do not agree) who is neutered, hoping he could complete the task.

And guess what, even before the assassin got close to her, he was in turn, assassinated by other assassins who were charmed by her.

Another story actually pop into my mind was about a successful animal trainer in a circus. He was so successful in taming some of the most fierce beasts that he was visited by several prominent zoologists hoping to find his secret.

The answer was:”If you can not seize their bodies, seize there hearts.”

Somehow, men and beasts are amazingly close.