1. Shaming and hazing is hot courtship
2. For a man to succeed, his woman must not. She really just wants a boyfriend and isn’t that talented anyway, so it’s cool
3. It’s OK to abuse a woman if you write redemptive music afterwards
On one level you do wonder if gently ribbing a 22 year old movie is almost the definition of "too little, too late", but then the nostalgia kicks in.
The lessons I learnt from Purple Rain were:
- I'll never be that skinny
- I'll never ride a bike that big or purple
- Guitars sure are phallic
(Though according to Edward Tufte, via Robot Wisdom, perhaps I shouldn't bullet that list)
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