Elegy

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I have mixed feelings about this moobie. For starters, even though it's portrayed as unusual, I still can't quite wrap my head around a young Penelope Cruz involved with an old Ben Kingsley.
Ben plays a professor given to anti-marriage rhetoric on talk shows, meeting regularly with fellow old man Dennis Hopper, intermittent trysts with a career woman who shows up when she pleases and a strained relationship with his son. Penelope plays a student who takes him up on his offer to go out once the semester is over. They end up in a relationship. He, once a master of his domain, finds himself anxious and insecure until - slowly but surely, it all implodes.
What does it all mean? This part I like...it reminds me of a 2nd century BC Greek philosopher I come back to time and time again - Epictetus. A Stoic, he asserts the following: we have control only over these things - our actions and our reactions to the actions done to us by others. That's it. And that, it turns out, is what this moobie is about.