manchurian candidate....

ok, so i borrowed several movies from the library....for backdrop purposes while i bake/sew/clean this weekend.......i wept at the end of the julia roberts movie mona lisa smile.......not because the movie was all that good...but because of the reality of the setting........there was a time that women went to college for the sole purpose of finding the right husband........and once the main mission was accomplished.......well.....they settled right into the housewifely duties complete with heels and frilly apron even if the spouses in question allowed them to continue to attend class......sadly, there are far too many women these days who buy into the 'husband rules the roost and the wife obeys' model.......especially in venues where i spend my time.....like work and church........thankfully, the running community tends toward these liberal notions of marriage as partnerships rather than dictatorships.........but i digress.........i also watched calender girls.......which was predictable but sweet.....and lastly the original manchurian candidate.....omg......angela lansbury was tremendous as the meanest of mammas........she could be the ultimate poster girl for the genre........omg....i was chilled to the bone when the russian operative was identified........the karate scenes were laughable given current standards, but i am sure that frank sinatra worked very hard to make them seem real enough for the 50's......and then there was janet leigh, who seemed to have no plausible reason to be in the movie at all except to be janet leigh in a frank sinatra movie........having watched all 3 movies yesterday... i will take them back and borrow three more today......gosh but i love to watch movies.......