I remember when this movie came out in December, 2002 but did not get to see it then because it was a month before I began recieving unemployment insurance. I then did see the first few minuites of it at a second run theater in April, 2003 but left early. But I had no real desire to see it then, but definitely do now and hope to as soon as get acess to DVD. But when you wrote that it was a delicious fairy tale for Marisa (I know she is the hotel housekeeper that becomes involved with a wealthy man after being mistaken for a socialite by him) I did not really see it that way at all. That is because since 2004 the only career I've really wanted to have has been as a hotel houseman. I am very good at it, really like doing it, and like the hours and atmosphere. The pay is good for my lifestyle, and I need no extra benefits. I did have it briefly for two weeks in early/mid April, 2001 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Pineville, NC, but after working for a week and then a weekend I was told could only work Saturdays and Sundays until late May, then more when summer picked up. I would have kept it, and wish I had and just waited for more time, but did not know this at that time, and then got a Bi-Lo deli-bakery job in Pineville with more hours (where I heard about the 9-11 attacks five months later, also in Manhatten). But when I went into this hotel to apply on Wednesday, April 4, 2001 I got the job right then and immidiently began, though I had never done this before (though had past cleaning jobs). I had just lost a Target job in Charlotte, NC (as cart attendant) after eight months, and would keep the Bi-Lo job for eleven months, before losing it as well (fired from both due to excessive customer complaints). But there were no complaints on the hotel job, and they certainly had nothing to do with laziness, as I've knocked myself out on every job I had, so it is really unfortunate I could not have just had this job/career all along (and knew that is what I wanted before). But it is also unfortunate I could not have just taken advantage of the college opportunity when I had it 20 years ago this August, when I first went off to college after graduating from high school, as I had taken advanced courses there and planned for years to go to college. I still have no regrets about that, and would definitely do it again, just as a history/geography major instead of a business one. It is unfortunate that did not work out, but it does not really matter, and I am so strongly looking foward to having the career of hotel houseman now (and plan to move to and live in Miami permanently, where it should be very abundant). So I don't consider what happened with Marisa in this movie to be a fairy tale for me, just having the career she had in a big city like that would be the ultimate fairy tale for me, and that is why I am so continually filled with anger and fustration, because I cannot simply get this and get on with my life as I want it. Granted, Marisa, and the others that worked with her, were probably uneducated minorities, and were far below the hotel management and most guest in income, intelligence, and potential, but I am close to if not above them in many areas and probably don't seem like the typical person for this career, but that does not matter to me one bit, I just so deperately want a position as it in a big Miami hotel (and then other things would take care of themselves). That is my delicious fairy tale. (See under Red Eye for more on this).
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park
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