La Vie Secrète des Gens Heureux (The Secret Life of Happy People)

On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, I went to see the movie La Vie Secrète des Gens Heureux (The Secret Life of Happy People). I thought this film was a comedy, but it ended up being more dramatic than comedic.

The story is about A family who sends their eldest daughter off to England, because she is going to get a job in the paramedic industry. That's about all the time she gets in the film. The rest of the film is about the father, the mother, the younger son, and their lives within a time span of about two to three months. The father is a very successful leader in a architecture/design firm, the mother is a very good trivia player who is also a school teacher, and the younger son is finishing his architect degree. Things get interesting when he bumps into an attractive girl whom he asks to be his son's girlfriend, so that he has an inspiration to finish his degree.

This was an okay film, but it's got your typical formulaic Quebecois elements. For example, you have your token gay person, or couple. You have your nude scene, you have your sex scene, you have your older men liking younger women, and/or older women liking younger men. You've got your typical heterosexual man cheating on his wife, or falling out of love with her. I think almost every Quebecois film cliché is in this film.

This film however, made me think if love really is forever.

And the step class I replaced today. Boy, was that bad... I was going down in flames... It started bad, and it just continued being bad. I forgot my running shoes, the warm up CD was skipping, and I was preoccupied with my application for the scholarship. It's due Friday, September 15, 2006 at noon, and the person whom I have asked for a letter of reference still hasn't gotten back to me. So, I had to ask a second person, in case my first person doesn't come through. When thing start off on a bad note, it's difficult to turn it around, especially since I am a newer instructor. Older instructors have more experience, and know little tricks, I believe to not let a bad start let them hinder their performance. I started with 15, by the end, there were 6.