The girl gangs of Remember Me

A 13 year old girl walks by looks at my fiancé through the window and starts smiling and waving frantically. I should have known this was going to happen on the opening night of Remember Me. I sip my wine and Mike takes another gulp of his porter. Then the girl comes back and starts waving again and this time starts hitting on the glass window. I burst out laughing and Mike is really embarrassed. I say, “I didn’t know I was actually out on a date with Robert Pattinson.” This girl definitely thinks Mike is someone else.

I thought I would wake up a little hung over from Robert Pattinson exposure in Remember Me, but the gangs of pre-teen girls kind of ruined it. They completely missed the funny college nuances in the film as well as the complex family relationships. We were lucky enough to sit next to a group of girls who (and I’m not exaggerating) would start gushing in a frenzy every time Mr. Pattinson would come on screen. I think the only time they were silent was during his sex scene where they acutely became very...interested. I was very grateful that I was not a girl anymore. At the end while we were leaving one girl said, “I really thought that it was just going to end happy and it would cut to years later where they would be married and have kids.” Clearly this was not the type of movie they would normally watch.

I can remember a time though when I too was infatuated with an actor. Aww, Leonardo DiCaprio. In my girl gang days we once paused Romeo and Juliet just to take a picture of our Romeo. I feel like I should be embarrassed about that, but I can just blame it on my raging hormones. I wonder though about all of the things that led to my changing from girl to woman. I’m not talking about the puberty days, but the changes that now cause me to perceive the world as an adult woman.

Today I am definitely thankful that I am a woman and not a girl as at least for me, it means that I get to have a little bit more self-control when cute actors are on the big screen