My Personality Revealed by 4 Movies

(and a challenge for you to do the same)

A while back, this question became popular on Twitter:

If you had to recommend 4 movies to people so they could get a feel for your personality, which would you choose?

At the time, I named my four movies, and now I’ll share my reasons for choosing them. Today, I’m revealing myself.

4 movies that reveal my personality:

Addams Family

I adore this movie! What does it reveal about me? My sarcasm and dark humour. My loyalty to live accordingly my personality, preferences and rules (not as extravagant as theirs, at all).

I love the relationship between Morticia and Gomez, my partner and I used to laugh of how much we were similar.

Personally, I relate with the daughter, Wednesday: I love her insensitivity, the way she doesn’t give a crap about girls or social norms. I love her cold-blood spirit. If I would be a character from the movie, I would be Wednesday. You still want to be my friend?

50 First Dates

This movie won this place for “Nemo”. Both reflect an important aspect of me: my memory sucks.

But between Dori with her spectacular lack of memory (mine isn’t that bad, by the way), I chose “50 First Dates” because of Drew Barrymore: like her, I’m always smiling, I have a great laugh and a very positive attitude towards life.

The movie tells the love story of Henry (Adam Sandler) and Lucy (Drew Barrymore), a woman that has short-term memory loss. Every morning, when she wakes up, she has no memory of the previous day.

As I said, my memory isn’t that bad but definitely could be better. Throughout my life, I had to develop some strategies to compensate. Years ago a neurologist said I could have attention deficit, but I never took interest in investigating more (another thing about me: I hate conventional medicine and it’s rare to accept medication).

I am a very distracted person, and my span of attention can be short, depending on what’s happening. My mind is often more interesting than the outside world.

One advantage I take from my bad memory is when I re-watch movies and series I don’t remember how they end. Bonus!

Sweet November

This is one of my favourite movies. I love it and I can’t get enough of it. Besides the story, I love the pair Charlize Theron/Keanu Reaves.

Sweet November is the story of Sara (Charlize Theron), an independent strong woman, that lives her life on her own terms.

This is one of the aspects where the movie reveals my personality: I am a strong, independent woman — too much, I’ve been told.

(I wrote about independent women, here)

SPOILER ALERT: if you didn’t watch the movie, the next paragraphs have spoilers.

Sara (Charlize Theron) and Nelson (Keanu Reeves) meet during a driving exam. Sara’s life is unusual: each month, she lives with a man of her choice, she does that to improve his life.

Meeting Nelson and seeing how stressed and unfulfilled he is, she chooses him. In spite of his resistance, he becomes her November.

They live a beautiful, fun and troubled love story, and falling in love with her, he proposes.

In a marvellous sad twist, Sara says no. She as terminal cancer and she won't accept having the man she loves witnessing her degrading, to see her different from the woman she was.

And this is the second aspect — the main one — why I chose this movie.

I want those who love me to remember me as the person I am. Not a sick fragile woman, dependent on others.

I was that person once, a rheumatic disease stole my life, my dignity. I wasn’t going to allow it anymore. I thought about ending my life. My partner and my son were living with a complete stranger, I hated to be dependent on them. I wasn’t myself. But I gave one last chance to life. With a profound change in my lifestyle, I beat my disease, but otherwise, I wouldn’t be here to tell the story.

So, in spite of loving happy endings as any other, I understand Sara’s choice to die away from Nelson, to offer him a memory of her that will always make him smile.

9 1/2 Weeks

“9 1/2 Weeks,” tells the story of Elizabeth (Kim Bassinger) and John (Mickey Rourke). She knows nothing about him, but she is incapable of staying away from him. They start an intense, erotic and wild sexual relationship.

She tries to resist him but she can’t, his games are impossible to refuse.

This movie reveals the sensuality that inhabits me, I’m a woman of passions and I pursuit them. I love (intelligent) flirting, it inflames my passion. Sexual games and eroticism are, for me, irresistible.

“9 1/2 weeks,” is the king of erotic movies and the sex scenes are absolutely hot. I’m not as submissive as she is, but the games he plays are powerful, I find it fascinating.

These are the four movies that best defines me. Now that you know a bit more about me, join the challenge and write about the movies that reveal your personality.

Have fun!

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