Adam Sandler is an absolute GENIUS

Click is incisive social commentary.

Just because it’s Adam Sandler doesn’t mean it has to be stupid, right? It was really funny, sometimes juvenile (oh, that fart), but it was clever. I look around me and I see people trying to use their own universal remote all the time.

Want to be skinny but not bother with bothersome things like exercise and a sensible diet, the slow but most effective way to achieve and maintain a healthy weight? No need to avoid your favourite foods, just take this pill and you can watch the pounds melt away! You can even sit and watch television all night and you’ll lose weight.

Want to be white as a sheet? Don’t worry about high factor sun screen, just use this peel-off face mask and you can spend all day in the sun and still look fair.

I think our societies today are so wrapped up in quick results, instant gratification, that no one thinks about consequences any more. You choose to do something, and there will be a reaction. You are responsible for your actions. Maybe we don’t want to face what stuffing our faces with junk food means for our bodies, so we get on the latest diet pill or fad diet, and the problem gets swept under the proverbial carpet. Maybe screwing someone over in business will get you a quick profit today, but what happens next year, when you really need a favour?

Click is about being responsible for your choices. It’s a funny movie, no doubt, but there is a message. One day, you will have to face the consequences of your actions. Will we realise too late, when we’re at the end and really wish we could be given a second chance, or will we all do our best to soldier through things we find unpleasant, because we really only live once?

Look at me, I’m a preacher. Hehe.

• 4 Aug 2006

• Thinking