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"Similarly, I also think of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The situation may be more fantastical than in Win Win—these are walking, talking animals, after all—but it’s still the marriage between Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) that grounds the story, giving it a maturity often lacking in children’s animated films. Mrs. Fox is the deep breath to Mr. Fox’s over-caffeinated enthusiasm. She slows him down. She helps him see where he’s gone wrong. And, most importantly, she helps him grow and take responsibility for his actions. It’s in this sense that Fantastic Mr. Fox develops a recurring theme of Anderson’s—namely, that commitment can be a catalyst for maturity, a bridge from childhood into true adulthood." From Relevant magazine's article on marriage in movies (relm.ag/wev3uzo).

A good rare chat with Ian from his month away in Michigan, ie a 13 hour time difference from Singapore,  time with church friends, and a cool night walk home. Mm mm. Good day. -- Journal entry // 9 November 2008 // 2007hrs I want to be like the woman with the Alabaster jar who abandoned herself. Totally. Didn't care what others thought. Just Jesus was her world. She beheld Him in her eyes. She only had eyes for Him. She gazed upon Him. Undistracted, nothing and no one else (opinions) mattered. She fixed her eyes on her one and only, and she did what she was compelled to do — she bowed down and washed His feet with her hair, her crown, her pride — all in total abandonment, with Jesus as her world, as the apple of her eye. That's how much she loved Jesus. She was completely absorbed in Him. She couldn't take her "eyes" off Him. How? It was a choice. She did not care what they thought. It did not matter that they were religious people who knew the law