I brought up the movie "Moonstruck" for a reason and some may step back thinking "what does some movie have to do with this?". The writer and director John Patric Shanley is older and has shown remarkable talent as a playwrite, screenwriter, and director. Perhaps his intelect for writing about these human realities comes from his education at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Developement. In his personal life he was married and divorced twice, so it's very possible he learned some important facts that he is sharing in his writing of Moon Struck. In that we can be thankful and look at his work in different lights. I think you can appreciate that given in that you have shared thus far how you do like to step back and see things in different lights. Not everyone can do that, yet he has shared "why do men chase women" which is interesting because clearly it's from a male perspective. Perhaps that is why these different scenes touch on some important truths about humanity.

While that movie was a romantic comedy, it was very respected in that it touched on important "realities" about life and people that while entertaining was also thought provoking as well. It was a way to educate and entertain at the same time. Cher's character was afraid of what might happen when her finace came to her house that morning. What would she say, what would HE say. And even the audience wondered but also knew more than the character Cher did. Their fears were resolved because her fiance was planning on backing out because his mother was not going to die after all. Sometimes our fears are worse than reality and a good writer and director can present us with a story and movie that pulls us into the many angles of relationship problems and resolutions.

When we have our own challenges, it's better to develop the capacity to step out of the picture of all that is taking place so we can find the facts instead of getting swept away by our emotions. The one character that managed to do just that was the mother played by Olympia Dukakis.