New in Town

[Lucy (Renee Zellweger) is a big shot executive from Miami visiting a small Minnesota town to try and shut down a factory.  She is having dinner at one of the local workers houses.  Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is one of her main antagonists during the process.]

Don't you just love those tense dinners?  Hopefully your thanksgiving is not like this.  None the less though this brings up an interesting perspective.  Is Ted right, or is Lucy right in this conversation?  Are there good things about living in the city?  Are there good things about strong successful women? Or is it Ted's argument, do women sell their body as sex objects?  Or is Miami (big town) filled with drug lords? 

I would like to propose that both have something to learn.  It is good that we support living in the city, and successful women.  The question is what is the end goal of that success.  What is the measure for success?  Is it money? fame?  Or is it something that is when we are away from the crowds, away from the business?  Can we look at ourselves in the mirror and be happy with who is looking back at us?  Lucy needs to understand that it is not good for a woman to be successful at the expense of her dignity. 

Ted needs to learn that just as much as he feels that he is being prejudged, he is doing the same thing to where Lucy comes from.  So the take always from this clip is that we have to remind ourselves what success is, but more importantly that we need to be open to new worlds, and perspectives.  We need to be careful not to be hypocrites, and cast ourselves with the same measuring stick.