Nitpickers occasionally need to be reminded that humans don't always act logically and that characters in a story sometimes say things that don't really advance the story.
A perfect example of this came up last week when my girlfriends and I were watching Lie With Me, from Jamaican-born director Clément Virgo, who makes movies as boring as those of some French directors. In the movie, Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) seduces David (Eric Balfour) by having sex with a nervous guy (Michael Facciolo) as he watches from his car, where he gets serviced by a woman who thinks she's his girlfriend. After being a tease for a good majority of the film's first act, Leila and David finally get together and have sex several times. Then they go to a club where Leila dances provocatively with two men she does not know. Back home, David questions Leila about the way she dances. Surprise, surprise, he's jealous. At that point in the movie, my friend who's also named Lisa, says to me: "I've got a nit for you."
I had to tell her that's not a nit. I would not tolerate that kind of crap from my boyfriend, but there are lots of men who get jealous when their woman dances with another man, so it's not unrealistic in any story when men get like that. In the case of the characters in the movie, it's absolutely ridiculous because the way Leila got David interested in her was by doing more than dancing with another man. But like your typical Neanderthal, David gets all jealous about the dancing just the same.
Maybe you can't get nits from jealous outbursts, but you can mine them for comedy, as Ellen DeGeneres realizes. She had Jake, from The Bachelor as a guest on her show yesterday morning, and asked him about the incident with Rozlyn. It seems that soon after the Bachelor gave Rozlyn a rose, the show's producers became aware that Rozlyn had slept with one of the show's staffers. Apparently, what Rozlyn should've done is wait to be chosen the Bachelorette so she could sleep with several different men. By the show's rules, the title single person is the only one allowed to sleep around. But where Ellen got the comedy from was Rozlyn's assertion that her personal life is none of anyone's business, forgetting for a moment that she's being confronted about her personal life precisely because she has allowed her personal life to become the business of a TV show's producers. Jake on Ellen didn't express any jealousy towards the staffer who slept with Rozlyn, but I won't be one bit surprised when on The Bachelor he complains of feeling betrayed.
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