Oops, I did it again

[robinturner]

Apologies for the Britney Spears quote.

Well, here I was researching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the web, and cursing the official site (www.crouchingtiger.com) for being unviewable without some poncy multimedia software that won't even install on my system, and it hit me again.

What "it" is is hard to pin down -" infatuation" is the closest I can come up with. I've got this weird adolescent thing that suddenly some woman I see turns into an incarnation of the Divine or something, and I'm reduced to stunned silence because all that would come out of my mouth would be things like "Ergh, gbffl, wah". This time the woman in question is Michelle Yeoh (Shu Lien in the film - she was also in Tomorrow Never Dies and a host of kung fu films). Before I know it, I'm clicking on all the Michelle Yeoh links and even downloading pictures for my desktop.

This is too teenage for words. I mean come on, I have a chronological age of 39 and I'm still going goopy over pictures of actresses (my Juliette Binoche obsession is already material for humour in my office). But there is some indefinable quality which reduces me to a kind of mystical awe in certain women. I say "indefinable" deliberately - if I could define it I would feel much more comfortable, and maybe get some clues to the problematic relationship between ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics I chew at from time to time. It's certainly not simple beauty, since although neither Michelle Yeoh or Juliette Binoche are bad-looking, they aren't Miss World material either (there again, the Miss Worlds I've seen have generally not been that stunning either). Michelle Yeoh certainly has some features that I admire in a woman, such as the ability to kick serious ass, but then Juliette Binoche is no martial artist. Binoche is a superb actress, but then so is Jodie Foster, who just doesn't have the same effect on me.

There again, sexuality must have something to do with it, however indirectly, since I never feel this way about men. But there's a massive difference between feeling horny and feeling mystical awe.

Hmm, need to think about this one some more. In the meantime, if any of my readers can tell me what the following have in common, I'll be grateful:

Michelle Yeoh
Juliette Binoche
Sara Maria Gaup (Algin's girlfriend in Pathfinder)
Sigourney Weaver, but only in the Alien films

Comments

Re: you see...

[solri.livejournal.com]

52? Wow, that gives me a whole twelve years before a reach my peak of desirability! I can't comment on men, but I find for women it depends on the type of desirability you're talking about, as they peak at different ages. At a rough guess I'd say

prettiness - 15 (assuming clear skin!)
sexiness - 25
attractiveness - 35
impressiveness - 45

Probably other factors come into play at 55+