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Hi everyone. I would like to welcome you back to my podcast. Welcome to Soulish Femme. My name is Glennavelle Manarang. To those of you here for the first time, welcome back. So today I will do a little bit of a different kind of podcast. This is about the two movies that I’ve watched recently. These are two old movies that I have rewatched again. The first one, called Morning Glory played by Rachel McAdams, Dan Keaton, and Henry Ford.
So, we can learn from this movie. I don’t want to give too much away, but something to do with the woman Rachel McAdams. She was playing as a producer and trying to lead these people as a journalist. And so, she was a single woman and we all know that as a single person, this is for the people that are single, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We actually think that we have to really figure it out the whole time of what we want to do in life because apparently in the show or in the movie rather the mother was not very supportive of her choice of her career. We all know this, right? Because her mother thought that she is just dreaming for being a producer on, you know, trying to tried to tell people of what to do and what kind of show they would like to portray.
And so, she didn’t quit. She didn’t stop. She actually pursued her dream.
And this is why I always like to say, you cannot be everybody’s cup of tea. You cannot listen to the naysayers in your life. If people somehow criticize your dream and especially from your parents, of course, you would have thought that the people in your life.
Especially from your parents, are the ones that you supposedly are going to support you, but not in her case and not everybody’s case.
We all know that people are sometimes are going to project their insecurity onto you or maybe they are just threatened of what you can possibly become. This is why many people are either going to sabotage your dream and try to question your dreams and maybe doubt your visions in life because as I said they are fearful and most of that is actually their own insecurity and their own lack of drive or motivation.
Or maybe lack of confidence that they rather want to pull you down. I told you in my life when I started reading writing a book and I started YouTubing and podcasting there were people also in my life who actually made fun of it and who kind of villainize the fact that I was trying something differently.
Because we all know I came from a family of the health care system and what do you know everybody expect you to have the same career as them and to make the kind of choices because it is the status quo. It is what you’re expected to do. And because I was not the person who was willing to follow everybody’s pathway and path wherever it is that they want to do in life, I decided to choose my own path.
And we all can learn also in morning glory that her relationship with this man as a Henry Ford, an elderly man. He was a senior and he was like a Tom Bronco in that kind of a film movie and she actually was looking up to him as a mentor and she kept on saying that I used to watch you when I was a little girl with my dad and we were so amazed of how good you are.
Apparently, as it turns out he was not the kind of a guy that was a very pleasant man. He was a prick, narcissistic maybe because he was good at his job and he took his job seriously. Nonetheless, it really went down to their having a good relationship and trying to really just compliment each other. I think because she also had daddy issues and father issues that she was trying to look into this man Henry Ford and Henry Ford also had a very bad relationship with her children because as I said he was too busy with his career. He was focused on his ambition.
That was something that they had in common. Both of them were self-centered when it comes to their career. They thought that their career and their ambition was all there is to it. And there was a rift and there was some kind of friction between Henry Ford and his children because of his lack of maybe time. We all know too that if you don’t have play and you only have to work and you actually are going to be driven with so much work at the end of the day, you’re going to neglect a lot of people.
And I know it’s very hard to balance things and to really just give the attention when you really are career-driven and then you actually neglect your family. At the end of the day, I think it really comes down to your priorities in life. As I like to say, yes, ambition is good. Making money and having a career because according to Lady Gaga, at least you have a career and one day it’s not going to wake up and say I am done with you and I don’t I no longer love you and you have the money on top of that.
But at the same time having a career and you don’t have a good relationship with your children especially I think we also have missed the point that you need to also have that kind of relationship with your children especially career can come and go and at the end of the day your kids are going to be there with you or not with you on your deathbed and I’m pretty sure when your kids are going to do a kind of reflection of how well were you as a parent, or were you able to give them guidance?
Or were you always too busy and caught up with your own selfishness and your own ambition that they no longer would remember you by as a person who had a memory with them. And then of course we can learn that eventually in life everything truly is transient. Nothing lasts forever. And that’s the one thing that I think is the what I’ve learned in this category is that she was single, too busy with personal life and eventually she fell in love in the end.
But because she was so caught up in her career, she lost touch of the love life and the kind of things that were that mattered in this in her lifetime. And I really think that we find attractiveness to other people because it is something that’s missing in us. We try to fill this gap in our lives and we look it to other people hoping that they can fill us up or fill the void in our hearts eventually. As I said, no one can really fill the void in your heart unless of course God is in your life and he’s the one that can really put that chasm in your heart, the desire that you’re looking longing for.
And another movie is that the intern it is played by Anne Hathaway and Robert Deniro. And in this scenario, Robert Deniro is a retired man. He used to work at this place where Anne Hathaway is also the main character and she used at the building that she’s currently working. Robert Deniro used to work there producing yellow pages and he remembered to work at the side of the corner. Of course they have re restructured the building and they have actually changed the design and in the end Robert Deniro was looking for something to do with his time.
So, this movie is about a man who was a widow and he woke up one day kind of
looking for a purpose because he thought to himself, “Okay, I’m old and then what am I going to do? This is it. Is this what life is all there is to it?” Because he realized that life was more than just retiring. And he applied for a job that was at the Hathaway company as an intern. And so he was able to gut the job. And what I like about this movie is because he really exemplify the kind of manliness and also again father figure.
He also portrayed this like a mentor in it. He ended up as a mentor to Anne Hathaway instead of him as the intern learning from this people.
I mean it kind of got both ways because at the same time he was learning about technology that he knew that he was not the kind of savvy when it comes to tech because he was surrounded with many younger generation. However, he also taught some of the younger men in the building or at his job to become like a man.
So there was a point in that scenario where Anne Hathaway said, “Why some of you men right now in this generation you dress poorly?”
And of course she was at the bar probably tipsy and drunk a little bit and they just look at each other. The younger men of course looking at Robert Deniro because he was dressed properly and he was always carrying handkerchief.
And so he was kind of teaching younger men on how to dress properly and how to become a gentleman because I really think that he hit the nail on the head where some of people today have really lack the probably the wherewithal to take themselves seriously and that they don’t really take the time to dress themselves like a man. that we all know today men who are in the man’s body but yet they’re running around with the toddler’s mentality and without a shirt on or maybe their jeans are hanging below and it is egregiously kind of not attractive in a way.
A man vs a boy
There are just boys today that are just lack of decorum and lack of class. It has no taste. They just wear like they’re they had no mother teaching them what’s right from wrong. And so let me not get on a tangent. And another thing that an Hathaway also have actually learned from this man, but he was very caring. He was very organized because at some point he was able to help around the company of Anna Hathaway that she was the boss.
And people are just disorganized putting all this one big pile of stuff in the middle of the room and then Robert stepped in and he was able to fix it and for him even though he was retired and even though he wasn’t only an intern but he took his job seriously and he thought to himself that I was not beneath any other job.
So he took it seriously and at the end of the day he ended up as a personal driver for Robert Deniro because as much as he was everybody’s business and he was always keen to Anne Hathaway’s business because again he was hired as her assistant but he was also concerned because at one point this man that was a driver for Anne Hathaway ended up drinking at the job and he actually called it out.
So it’s kind of good that some people in her lives in her life actually cared for her and that he was looking after her welfare and as again she was also lacking of that kind of a father figure because she also had did not have a good relationship with her own mother. And that also is kind of funny, why is it that most of the time many women we do not usually have a good relationship with our own mother.
There’s always going this kind of like uh conflict or drama that somehow it was also portrayed in the movie that every time Anne Hathaway would talk to her mom and she hung up the phone and the mother would not even say I love you back and every time she say I love you the mother would just say thank you again narcissistic mother do exist and it also portrays that there’s always this tension between mothers and daughters even in the movie Morning Glory.
We all can see that too there was also the kind of relationship between her and mom that wasn’t good and also in this movie and another lesson that I’ve learned from this movie is that she was also looking for the father figure and it was not too late for Robert Deniro to find purpose in his life and he found a purpose by working at that kind of job by also teaching other younger generation to be organized to dress properly and that take the job seriously and nothing is really beneath you and on top of this movie.
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