I saw Mark Ruffalo with Danny Devito on Broadway a couple of years ago, two of the funniest performances I've ever seen with half the audience in hysterics half the time.
So the 10 stars is in part intended to urge Mark to please come back, maybe even make this an annual event. :-)
Okay. Main point. Unless I am missing something, the much raved about "Big" seems to have zero message other than, if you don't act your age you will see more success.
Really?! Try that in NYC where I work. "13 going on 30" seems to me to have zero in common with that.
The Jennifer Garner character makes just ONE key wrong choice at 13 and then she gets to see at 30 how truly awful THAT all turned out. It was commendably remorseless in not letting up almost to the end.
This is actually a display of the vital concept of "path dependency", one of the best ever put on film, much more akin to "A Winters Tale (Scrooge)" than to "Big".
As every kid of 13 would benefit by being taught, path dependencies are choices made by us or for us often very far back which for better or worse narrow down our range of choices going forward - rather like trains on rails with no turns or getting offs.
Many are good: alternating current thanks to Tesla; all driving on the right side of the road in the US; the good qualities evolution produced in us.
But way too many are bad (consider the role of HMOs in health care - what exactly do they add? But there they are). In the US there are strong pressures to lock kids into career choices in their early 20s - exactly why? Add here the bad qualities evolution produced in us.
We are in fact heavily constrained by dozens of path dependencies at any one time. With a freaked out population like the US's they are now plaguing most of the population most of the time (gee thanks, George Washington and blah blah blah!).
Unlike the empty "Big" this film is potentially of immense usefulness, capable of sparking serious upgradings of careers and lovelifes.
Every kid of 13 could benefit. Watch this film. And read "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Art Of The Long View" ASAP.
So the 10 stars is in part intended to urge Mark to please come back, maybe even make this an annual event. :-)
Okay. Main point. Unless I am missing something, the much raved about "Big" seems to have zero message other than, if you don't act your age you will see more success.
Really?! Try that in NYC where I work. "13 going on 30" seems to me to have zero in common with that.
The Jennifer Garner character makes just ONE key wrong choice at 13 and then she gets to see at 30 how truly awful THAT all turned out. It was commendably remorseless in not letting up almost to the end.
This is actually a display of the vital concept of "path dependency", one of the best ever put on film, much more akin to "A Winters Tale (Scrooge)" than to "Big".
As every kid of 13 would benefit by being taught, path dependencies are choices made by us or for us often very far back which for better or worse narrow down our range of choices going forward - rather like trains on rails with no turns or getting offs.
Many are good: alternating current thanks to Tesla; all driving on the right side of the road in the US; the good qualities evolution produced in us.
But way too many are bad (consider the role of HMOs in health care - what exactly do they add? But there they are). In the US there are strong pressures to lock kids into career choices in their early 20s - exactly why? Add here the bad qualities evolution produced in us.
We are in fact heavily constrained by dozens of path dependencies at any one time. With a freaked out population like the US's they are now plaguing most of the population most of the time (gee thanks, George Washington and blah blah blah!).
Unlike the empty "Big" this film is potentially of immense usefulness, capable of sparking serious upgradings of careers and lovelifes.
Every kid of 13 could benefit. Watch this film. And read "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Art Of The Long View" ASAP.
