This 1999 film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, and Heath Ledger (moment of silence), a modern day remake of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, depicts Cameron (Levitt) as a new student. He is shown around the school by Michael (David Krumholtz) who tells him where all the groups hang out. Cameron sees Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) and falls instantly in like. Michael breaks the news to Cameron, that Bianca isn't allowed to date. This rule changes however, when Bianca's father says that she is allowed to date, but only after her sister, Kat (Stiles) does. There's only one problem: Kat is the proverbial shrew, a girl who rejects every single popular trend and instead, forges her own path and doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She's not afraid of dying without ever having a date. Cameron and Michael devise a plan to talk the school psycho, Patrick (Ledger) into dating Kat so Cameron can date Bianca. Comic mishaps and romantic comedy tragedies ensue.
This movie is a very humorous and interesting film. I got a few spiritual ideas while watching, but not many. Cameron sees Bianca and all he sees is her looks. He completely overlooks her attitude toward others, her shallowness, and her complete lack of, well, intelligence, i.e., one of my favorite lines, "There's a big difference between like and love. Like I like my Sketchers, but I LOVE my Prada Backpack." Later when he gets to know her, and she changes a little bit, he begins to like her for who she actually is and not for just what she looks like. This is a problem many people have, including King David, who had an affair with Bathsheeba after he saw her bathing from his balcony. Later David wrote many Psalms about this time in his life and how difficult it was for him to shake these feelings of lust.
Near the end of the movie Kat reveals to Bianca that she actually dated Joey Donner, (Andrew Keegan) one of the characters that is also trying to date Bianca. Kat tells Bianca that she did things that she isn't proud of right now and it destroyed her, so Kat, knowing that their father would treat them equally, chose not to date so Bianca wouldn't have to go through the hurt and pain it can cause. Bianca gets mad at Kat for never telling her this and not allowing her to experience things for herself. I thought of God when she was saying all of this. God gives us the freedom to make our own choices. He gives us the ability to choose to love Him, because if He forced us to love Him it wouldn't be true love. Without choice there is no love. God let us choose to love Him so we need to make the right decision and choose to love Him.
Next week the movie is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Oh dear, this might be a chore =P
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