Dinner @DJ's Cronulla & Movie Review: Georgia Rule

02 Jun 2007 19:29 (Edited: 02 Jun 2007 19:29)

On Friday night we did it again we went out for dinner and a movie and we wanted to go and see Shrek 3 cause i though it came out the day before. But no it's coming out this Thursday.

So anyhow we went to see the movies and see what is out cause we both were not sure what we wanted to see. My Wifey (Nickname given to my friend by my cousin) decided to pick up the flyer with all he session times on it and i went and got some cash from the atm machine. I looked on the electronic board to see what movies were showing and nothing really took my fancy in particular so i decided to leave it up to my wife :)

After all this we still had not made a decision so we decided to go and have dinner at DJ's. Which was a place tucked away in Cronulla Mall of course she knows Cronulla like the back of her hand as she says shes a true shireling or something to that effect. So being tucked away we went to this place that had this doorway and a stairway we had to climb :) Going up is not the problem i was thinking about coming back down afterwards. :) Finally we made it up the stairs and then i looked around it looked like a internal pub kinda thing. So as per usual Wifey already knew what she wanted which was chicken schnitzel with mashed potatoes. I was looking for the menu and then wife said its on the wall and i would have to walk around the place and look on the boards placed on the wall and i just turned my head and looked at the boards and i did not wanna look like a looser and walk around and analyse what i want, so i decided to just turn my head and look as far as i could and see what kinda food they have there, also i wanted something simple nothing to major i ended up getting a beef burger with chips. I went up to the counter and order our food and drinks and wifey wanted pink lemonade first time i have heard about it but just went with it.

I got our table number and left the drinks there and went over to our table and asked her to please go get the drinks other wise if i did their would not be much of the drinks left, btw i got an OJ.

So we just sat their and chated about nothing really just a small little chin wag :) Wifey also mentioned that her friends may show up one of her friends had just finished uni and well they all did for the semester so i think Friday night was the time to let their hair down and chill. So by the time all her friends were their we were already into our food and her friends were not happy that we started before they came and we did not wait for them. Wifey dealt with that and answered basically that she was hungry and was not going to wait so i just sat their did not say anything. So anyhoo we sat their and mixed and mingled well wifey did and i sat their spoke when i needed to and basically observed the groups interaction as a whole, maybe it the shrink inside me that does it. All in all a good time the discussion was good nothing to special to write about but was good enough to pass the time. I guess after a few drinks that they had thats what happens conversation is their but substance may be limited :) During that time wifey decided to talk to me but not using the her voice by signing to me and i had no clue what she was on about. It has been awhile since i have used mackaton. Well she was using Auslan which i have no idea about anyway soo i just told her to tell me later before the movies. Anyways by that time we all finished and headed downstairs. Yes the stairs going down the stairs is what i dont like but made it down unscafed. So we said our byes for now and headed to the movies and we had decided at dinner that we are going to watch Georgia Rule. on our walk down we bumped into some of her basketball buddies that she forgot the names of soo she did not introduce :) It was all good either way i did not mind. We finally made it to the movies and were half an hour early so we sat down and chatted some more but wifey needed to make a call so she made the call and i decided to make a call to my cousin at the same time. Wifey thought i was making a call overseas but my cousin was in Queensland Brisbane. I just talked to how the night was going on and we giggled like pre-schoolers but nothing negative was said about wifey i need to keep the peace at home ;) lol!!! Anyways her call ended and i said bye to my cuz and we started talking again about some stuff i promised to tell her about in person and not on msn.

First she told me about her thing and i was smiling well cause i felt like it was noting to get worried about due to the condition the other person was in hence she should not anylze it to that effect cause of that matte. (sorry not going into detail here due to confidentiality)

My matter i told her about was how i met with this girl i got to know over this free dating site i am involved in and what we have been discussing and listening to my story i was watching wifey's reaction which was funny cause she looked like a stunned mullet and after looking soo shocked she said thats nothing compared to her matter i did not say anything cause i know how it can be taken out of context if i say anything so we just left it there and by this time we were in the line to get into our cinema and then we just walked in and the cinema that we were in was like a small cinema that was ok it did get full pretty quickly and wifey decided to let me know how i am the only bloke in a chick flick i was not complaining i said good more for me :P Anyway after the previews the movie started and from here i start me review of the movie.

The movie Georgia rule where do i start with this movie. We start off with the mother and daughter in the car having a quarrel over something and then the daughter gets out of the car and decides to walk the rest of the distance to the town by herself. She came to a place that she decided to lay underneath the towns welcome sign and she was wearing a not too flattering dress. One pick up truck stopped and they young guy decided to see if she was still alive. he checks her pulse and she freaks and screams and wakes up etc... and then they get into a conversation and in that time of the conservation another car stops and its another person from the town the daughter decides to go with him mainly because of the convertible he was driving he turns out to be the towns Vet and also was treating the towns people too. Which was kinda weird.

At the same time the mum arrived at her mums place to let her know that her granddaughter is here making her own way etc...

Anyways the daughter makes it in to town and finds her granny's place and her grand daughter and her meet say hello and they go inside and she was hungry but the nana said no food till breaky till tomorrow morning Georgia Rule!. You get a lot of those lines in the movie that were in the movie but some were not as funny as others.

This movie was not what both of us expected had its funny bone moments but had a very serious underlying issue that they were talking about which was sexual abuse of the daughter. The story revolved around that being the main reason of the daughter's rebellion towards her mum and the mums rebellion to her mum through her drinking.

When the issue of the abuse was brought out in the movie i was like wow what a topic to talk about and i was feeling not soo comfortable i really just wanted a light hearted movie something to have nothing to think about but as i wanted to go i thought it would not be fair and sorta put on my semi youth work hat on and just thought i would sit through it and be a man as they say strap on some balls and watch a movie that i know a lot about being a youth worker i remember during my years of study a lot of the role plays or scenarios we did were based on abuse and sexual abuse.

I can tell you right now i feel very passionate about this topic and in my book anyone who does this either to anyone regardless if the abuser is male or female mostly male in most situations. I personally would have the person neutered and then thrown in jail and throw away the key.

This movie although is a chick flick i do recommend this movie for all blokes to step up and watch this movie either by themselves or with their better half. This is definetly a movie that is for an adult audience due to the subject matter. A must watch and i would even go as far to say a Must have DVD when it comes out.

It is a movie that can arise many emotions for different people. I was like very tense in the movie not because i couldn't handle it i could i have seen much worse that that movie but what was making me tense was the fact how the mum in the movie did not believe her daughter when she said i was abused by my step father. As a youth worker i have seen a lot of young people that do fabricate a lot but when it comes to matters of abuse you always have to believe it and not matter if its true or not it has to be reported and dealt with. Which it was in this movie.

There was a scene in this movie i would say i loved to bits. It was the scene with the baseball bat and well the scene started with the step father arriving at the grandmothers house to see his wife because she is not returning her calls due to the abuse factor and shes not sure who to believe.

So the grandmother comes out and tells the guy to go and leave the place etc... he did not and he said he has a right to see his wife etc... Then the grandmother goes inside and the guy is irate and loudly stating he has a right to see his wife and then the grandmother comes out with the baseball bat and clobbers him good just beats him hard but does not kill him if it was me hitting that bloke let me just say he would have not got back up after i was through with him.

Anyhoo this movie would be a real tear jerker for most people and the ending was fitting in this movie i am not saying what happen but it was i would say a very emotional scene in the movie and my wife had the snifles. She was not ready for a heavy movie. After the movie i asked her if she was ok and she basically said what i wrote before about not being ready about the heavy movie. She still enjoyed it although.

After that i asked her if she wanted to do something else and she had footy the next day soo she wanted to go home and get some beauty sleep. I don't know why she needs a beauty sleep cause she already is ;) (Im going to get many questions after this comment LOL!!!)

Anyways we got back in the care discussed the movie a little further and then by that time we got to my place and dropped me off said thanks and then went our separate ways. I am going to send her a E-Card just because of the emotion she had after the movie but did not really say anything about it. She was quieter than usual i think we were both processing the movie and the intensity.

All in all a very great night and the best movie i have seen in a very long time.

Movie Rating 10/10 Well done the whole cast to this great movie.
Night Out Rating 10/10 It had all the great elements humor socialising and every other emotion except anger :)

Well the next movie i wanna see before i move interstate is shrek it will be in two weeks or soo again im going to let wifey know and we will probably head to see that too.

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