Bottled promise

The Washington City Paper's oddly entrancing dating blog notes this poetic, stagy--and deadly accurate--quote from the movie Beautiful Girls, which is almost enough to make me want to see the movie:

Supermodels are beautiful girls, Will. A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man-promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay. The supermodels, Willy? That's all they are. Bottled promise. Scenes from a brand new day. Hope dancing in stiletto heels.

It's true, of course, even when you're not talking about supermodels, and whether your preference is "corn-fed Southern Christian types" or "dark-eyed beauties," (or maybe something in between).