La Vie En Rose

Dear Readers,


"It is late at night, and someone across the way is playing 'La Vie En Rose'. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses,'  and it says everything I feel. I have learned so many things, Father. Not just how to make vichyssoise or calf’s head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe. I have learned how to live… how to be in the world and of the world… and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life… or from love, either"

That is a quote from one of my all time favorite movies. Sabrina. Not the shitty version with Harison Ford in it. No the original version with Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. That version is down right beautiful. Of course, the movie does have haters who say that it is simple, boring, and has no complexity. But I find that to be part of the appeal. The simpleness of the story, the simpleness of the characters, and the simple but    wonderful plot just make the movie.
My favorite scene is the one I quoted at the top. Sabrina is sitting in her apartment in Paris. It is a few weeks before she is graduating from the cooking school she was sent there for. As she writes a letter to her father La Vie En Rose drifts across the street to her window. Her words clearly signal her coming of age. Paris was about much more then learning how to make complicated french dishes; it turned out the be a place of learning for the young Sabrina. Something about the song and the words Sabrina writes gets me everything.
That scene, that song can make me forget almost any of my cares. I makes me want to go dance out in the street. I makes me want to travel to Paris meet a Baron, get a stylish haircut and new wardrobe, and learn how to live.
This movie makes me forget about the hatred swelling in my heart for Paranormal Teen Romance Novels, which is a hard thing to do because I have sworn that if I ever learn how to blow up things with my mind that section in Barnes and Nobles will be the first to go. It makes me forget the mass amount of work I have to do, which includes cleaning, getting swimming lessons things together, and working everyday. It makes me forget everything.
I feel so damn wistful and hopeful for the future, while watching to movie. If I could I would slip into the black and white version of Long Island. It is so peaceful, beautiful, and just about as close to heaven on earth as I have seen. The beautiful dresses, the sharp looking men, the wonderful parties, the picturesque houses, and the soothing and class music. All of it seems so damn perfect! Why can't I have that in Northwest Iowa?  Why can't normal life be like 1950's New York?
If you think I am crazy for wanting that (which you probably do because most people think I am crazy), watch the movie. Listen to La Vie En Rose, and you will understand the wistful feeling. The if you are still a doubter, I would like to advise you to go jump in a well and don't make a lot of noise because no one wants Lassie to find you. Please don't rain on my parade. I am allowed some happiness after Barnes and Nobles stole all of it away, after they crushed my faith in the human race by making a section specifically for Paranormal Teen Romance. I allowed some happiness after being super busy. I allowed some happiness so don't you dare fuck it up. Just go watch to movie, and you will understand my happiness!!!
Lindsey