lzcutter said: "The west is changing, perhaps too quickly, and these men can not keep up. Both films deal with men out of step with the times they are living in".
That statement caused a lightbulb moment for me. In just the 9 years since I returned from Las Vegas, the midwest has changed enormously. When I came back little girls still wore clothes that covered their navels, and little boys still wore pants around their waists. At that point only 'tough' kids wore excessively large pants that barely hung on them. Very few people had cell phones, and no kids under 18. I remember the commercials for texting and people saying "if you have the phone in your hand, why would you type out your message"? Also, during this time frame both my parents passed away, as did one of my daughters, my sister, and my favorite aunt, and my oldest granddaughter spent weeks in and out of various hospitals. That all called for lots of time spent sitting around commiserating with just family members, and little interaction with the rest of the world. These are not excuses, but reasons for falling behind and having a hard time accepting all the changes that have come about.
I noticed that people of my generation and my kids, still say, 'buckle up' when they start the car, but kids under 15 wouldn't dream of taking off without being buckled up. My daughter practically had a coronary when she saw some old family photos with my Dad smoking. "I didn't know Grandpa ever smoked!" Hah, the man never moved without a cig hanging out of his mouth. My little granddaughter asked me what the lady was doing when someone was dialing a phone in a movie. In my 64 years I've seen a lot of changes occur but most of them took years to evolve e.g. from operator, to dialing, to push button, to cell phones, to texting. Lord knows how our parents and grandparents handled cars, planes, phones, etc. Again, most of the changes took years to slowly creep into daily activities, but the last 10 years have introduced changes so quickly, you barely get used to one thing, and another comes along to take its' place.
I am not directing this to anyone, nor do I mean it to be any kind of message to anybody. It was just a sudden awakening on my part as to why sometimes I get so upset over the things I see in today's movies, and hear in today's music. But that doesn't necessarily mean the old gal is ready to move over quite yet.
Have a good day all.
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