Have You Had Enough Yet?

"How come you haven't posted anything?"

"When are you gonna update your blog?"

"Are you gonna write about this movie?"

ENOUGH!

But unlike Jennifer Lopez I can't just kill the source of my annoyance.

For those not familiar with Jennifer Lopez's 2002 movie about a woman who decides to fight back against her obsessed and abusive husband, Enough is a movie you should see just for the fact that Noah Wyle (yes, ladies, Dr. John Carter, or for the nerdy women, Flynn Carsen) plays a bad guy. As a woman, it's a scary reality that such men and relationships like that exist in the world. I don't know what men can take away from the movie except to learn Krav Maga in case your wife tries to kill you.

Like most movies, at the heart of it this story is about family and how strongly Lopez's husband, Mitch played by Bill Campbell, believes in the family unit.

What a happy looking couple. During the scene pictured above, Mitch asks Slim (Lopez) if she's going to give him lots of babies. Truly he is a family man. When he first holds his baby girl, his whole world is filled with only her. Despite the burden of a successful construction company weighing down on his broad shoulders, he turns off his cell phone and cuts off contact from a potentially profitable business deal.

Mitch does what he can to please Slim once they are married. She doesn't have to spend eight hours a day on her feet waiting tables at a small diner anymore. He is rich and successful enough that Slim doesn't have to work. He drove them around neighborhoods until she finally finds a house that she likes; a house that she can see them living as a happily family. She wants it, it's hers. Mitch is the one that makes it so. The fact that a family is already living in it and it's not for sale makes no never mind to him. Mitch provides for his family, no questions asked.

When Slim runs away with his child, Mitch goes to all sorts of crazy lengths to reunite his family. He still wants Slim and he never wanted to give up his daughter. He contacts Slim's friends to find her. Mitch even gets his cop friend (Noah Wyle) to help him track down Slim and his daughter so that he can bring them back home.

Now you might say, "wait, he tries to kill Slim. How is that preserving the family unit?" She was running around the country with his child. Slim clearly did not want to be part of his family unit. But as long as she was alive, Mitch wouldn't be able to have true custody of his daughter. Mitch would rather have his daughter with him and his wife dead than have his family just consist of himself. 2 > 1 is an indisputable truth.

As alarming as Mitch's determination might be, you have to agree that it's nice to be wanted, right?

Mitch is a man that is not afraid of commitment or the responsibilities of being a husband and a parent, while at the same time bearing all the financial burden of his family. So he suffers from an obsessive mental disorder, but when that obsession drives your determination to see things through, I think there's some applause due. Mitch Hiller: the ideal family man from a time when it was all right for husbands to hit their wives. Evilness: 2 for wife-beating because we live in a time when it is not legal or socially acceptable.