Although it is considered a "chick-flick," I must admit that the movie, "You've Got Mail" was pretty good. At times, I found it hard to stay focused on finding material from class within the movie because I had become so involved with the storyline. (please keep those recent comments away from my guy-friends...thanks.) Anyways, one thing in particular that stood out to be was the different personalities Joe Fox seemed to have. WHen he was online talking with Kathleen, he seemed like a very sensitive and understanding guy. He was easy to talk to and seemed to be very down to earth. However, in person he sometimes acted like he was into himself. For instance, whenever he and Kathleen were enemies and fighting about the fate of her bookstore, he was egotistic and bragged about his bookstore being better. He seemed to take on a different identity and was somewhat of a smart-ass (pardon the french) and it completely turned Kathleen off and she didnt like him at all. Little did she know, she was totally falling for him online. How can this be? Well, Joe shaped his online identity differently than his real-life one. Joe was in search of finding a better woman in his life and wanted to make sure that he did all the right things to attract the opposite sex. He was kind, easy to talk to, understandable, and always offered a helpful and sometimes flirtacious word to Kathleen. In the end, Joe was able to mold both identities together and express his true self to Kathleen. She liked him alot more once he started to act like the man she met on the internet and they fell in love and lived happily ever after.
I liked the movie alot and this was the main concept that stood out to me from class. Online identity and how it can vary enough from your real-life indentity to cause some conflict.
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I agree with you on the different identities. Joe was two different people and then kind of put both personalities together at the end. Do you think that many people have different identities online and off line? I think I have the same identity online and off line but I could be wrong.
I agree with you on the different identites that Joe took on as well. I also thought that it was hard to stay focused are finding things to relate to class because I got caught up in the story. But overall it was fairly easy to relate this movie to class because it had so many things in it that we discussed. And it's ok chris...I won't tell anyone that you were really into the movie..haha!
i like what you said Chris. I think that this is something that happens more often then not online just becuase it is so tempting to be someone else when you are not limited by physical appearence. But i wonder that if sometimes someone cant help it but to exaggerate a little about yourself.
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