"So how old are you anyway young man?"
Stella
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
When I first watched this film I was like... "OK.. I wanna see how this woman gets her groove back." I think I live in this testing world of questioning to really understand people and their motives. Stella was a corporate executive struggling with time, and seeking to find value in herself. Sometimes the best thing you can do in life is step away from the daily grind and enjoy a freedom break for the mind. Her break was a trip to Jamaica, and so the story unfolds.
Stella meets Winston Shakespeare, yes, a man by the last name Shakespeare.
See at first my little feelers go crazy... wasn't Shakespeare the most romantic brilliant poet of all time? Well, aside from all of that, I loved how this movie allowed the beauty of the islands to captivate the essence of Stella's soul. Winston was half her age, but she felt more than her age when dealt with choosing love over the life she already knew and created.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is one of those escapism movies. Tropical paradise, timing for meeting an incredible attractive man, and of course an instant attraction.
What I liked about this film is how a stubborn Stella became more and more relaxed when she fit into the groove of her own self. People get caught in ruts all the time. People are trying to make sense of their own self pity and unsatisfied needs from time to time. But, what I adored about Stella's character was that she wasn't trying to escape when she found Winston, she wasn't trying to do anything.
Circumstances can do a lot of different things to people. The saying time is money is just as critical as timing is everything.
Being at the right place and at the right time is sometimes more critical than forcing the ending of a story to come true. When I first heard the title of this movie I laughed, I couldn't imagine how someone can find a groove back, I didn't understand how life had so many grooves. What I found was that the groove was in ones own security, not their insecurity.
Life offers us many insecurities from time to time, but, when we know that confidences is all that matters, the idea that getting something back seems so cliche'.
So how do you do it? How do you get your groove back? Do you need a tropical island and a man to show you that? Or do you simply need to find yourself and give yourself time to shake your groove thing in your own little way? I'd have to say that people are people and the more we realize how important it is to find peace within ourselves first, the more critical it is to understand how others will embrace and understand us better.
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rated with hugs and aches and pains
Julie! Hey there, yes.. inner peace and of course confidence. The secret to humility.
Kathy.. I swim, that is my mantra. Plus isn't water just as groovy?
Thoth.. kinda a chick flick, but, you'll embrace the story.