Seeing Things in a Different Way

Remember the 1950 movie "Born Yesterday" staring Judy Holiday who always played a dumb blond but outdid herself in this movie? She won an Academy Award for it.

The story, written by the great Garson Kanin, has Judy as the girlfriend of a mobster played by Broderick Crawford. He thinks she's so dumb that he hires a journalist, played by William Holden, to tutor her.

Holden is frustrated. She can't even read. Then he discovers she can't see. She needs glasses.

After that everything changes. They both discover she's really smart. She starts looking at her life and the life of the thug she's been living with.

In the end Judy and William get the goods on Broderick and his corrupt Washington insider buddies and have them sent to jail.

Judy and William live happily ever after.

To me, this story has many applications.

In a sense, it could explain the Christian word "conversion." Nothing had changed for Judy on the outside but when she put on the glasses everything looked different. The change was inside her. For the first time she could see things for real.

I've been thinking about the movie "Born Yesterday" and our current world wide mess.

Maybe it's time for us to put our glasses on and start seeing things in a little different way.


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