I guess the heading says it all.I was like the “girlicide”.Its not that girls despise me,its just I always felt that girls are intimidating.Anytime I try to start a normal conversation with an opposite sex,my brain would become numb.It is as if no blood were entering it and when I said hello,I would downright forget what was I doing.If only she would say “you had me at hello”just like in the movie “Jerry Maguire”…but I’m no Tom Cruise.
Some of you may ask why use the phrase “chick repellent”.Well when I was trying to came out with an interesting yet appropriate heading,suddenly a friend of mine came to mind.We always envy him because he had many admirers at school.Why not,he is masculine and charismatic until one day one of our friend jokingly calls him the “chicks magnet”.So the fact that I am 100% different from him comes the phrase “the chick repellent”.The ironic thing is he is one of my best friend.
Nowadays,a lot of films has made the “chick repellent” as a part of the character to the fact that it almost become stereotypes.Examples are “LARS AND THE REAL GIRL” and “PUNCH DRUNK LOVE”.In PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, the main character, Barry Egan, played by Adam Sandler(who impressively did a wonderful job) is a guy who fit the description of “chick repellent”.He is socially awkward yet tried his best to be accepted by the society.Throughout the movie,we are introduce to his seven sisters whom might be responsible for his low self-esteem as his sisters kept calling him names and so on and a woman who seem to be attracted by him and vice versa.What make this movie more than just a romantic movie is that it is filmed in a dark way and has a subtle meaning to it.
With increasing number of these type of men,does that mean the future will be led by them?Maybe in the future all of our successor would be “chick repellent” and thus,less people would be in a relationship.Which means that there will be lesser and lesser people in the future?That would be the kind of future I would not be looking forward to.
May 12, 2008 at 1:51 am
I think all boys go through a period of being awkward around girls. Some just get out of it faster than others. Interesting note about Punch Drunk Love – insiders on the movie have said that Emily Watson’s character is actually an alien. Why? Well, one of the gaffers on the set said that everytime P.T. Anderson instructed them on how to light the set of her house, he said “light it like an alien spaceship”. Then everytime you see her character in the house and she’s watching TV, she’s watching the Lunar Landing footage. Also, the colours and music used within the film (especially in the opening titles) are a homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and how aliens communicate through sound and colour. I’ve thought about this and maybe it’s just a story about this guy who is awkward around women and finally, he makes a connection with one, not because he overcomes his awkwardness, but because she’s from another planet and therefore understands him. That’s crazy interesting, right?