Message #18728

[countrigal]

Shallow Hal... well, I saw a piece on it (a behind the scenes type, talking with the characters, etc) and it looked like it might be worth seeing on HBO or something which I don't pay specifically for that movie to watch.  It's supposed to be about how Hal was judging women by external looks until he is hypnotized to where he will only judge women on their inner looks.  So Hal starts dating someone who's not traditionally beautiful, but who is in his eyes, and he catches a lot of flak about it from his friend.  They didn't give away the ending, where he's unhypnotized, and how he handles the situation he finds himself in when he learns that his girlfriend really isn't a traditional beauty, but I was left with the feeling that it would hold a good moral.  Back to the old "don't judge a book by it's cover" thing.

As for picketing... what's the purpose?  Are you not traditionally pretty and offended because he sees you for your inner beauty? Or are you the traditional beauty who is offended because the movie portrays you as having an inner ugliness?  The movie uses fat versus thin, but really it appeared to boil down to this and I don't see where the stand is for picketing.  Besides, as others said, it just leads to free advertising and makes more people want to go see it.

CountriGal
Deskdemon Editorial Board Member