Rent - The Movie

Tonight, I went to see the movie Rent. It's the Broadway musical turned movie. I really enjoyed it, even though I don't know the songs, and I felt that some of the songs were too modern for my liking.

However, this movie focused a lot on love across different spectrums. There was a couple that was HIV +, and one of them was a drag queen. There was a lesbian couple, and there was also a couple where one of them was a heroin addict/user.

What bugs me about people in this story, and perhaps people in general, is that they don't know how to hold onto love. It's not like love hits you everyday, and good love. Most of the time, it's lust, or bad love. For example, in the film, the couple of (Tom) Collins and Angel was the envy of everyone. When Angel passed away, there was a song where two people said that they would love to have felt the love that Angel felt with Collins. It made me think of a comparison that my brother made about dating or love. He said, "You have choice in dating? I thought it was like waiting for a bus... Once you see one that takes you to where you need to go, you hop on."

* Sigh *

But on a side note: Congratulations to my friend Laura, who found out that she was pregnant. She's going to be a mother.