Miss Penny Lane ~endless groupie travails???~

I love "Almost Famous" (The movie directed by Cameron Crowe 2000) it's more important to me than life!!!
For the first time I saw that film I was still in High School. Then I only commented after watching it, "Oh man, this is the dullest movie I’ve ever seen!" but I watched it again in July 2007. What made me want to watch it again? haha, it's secret. My eyes were flooded with tears... I empathised with Penny Lane way too much.

"Those girls don’t even know what it is to truly love some silly little piece of music or some band so much…that it hurts." (One of my favorite lines in Almost Famous) It made me realise I’m the real music fan! It’s not about the cloying sentimentalism, but about real me!
According to Pamela Des Darres, “With so many musicians snapped up by models, porn stars, and actresses, the groupie’s quest is even more difficult. Only a handful of girls are fearless enough to cross the precarious line into the rock’n’roll danger zone… What kind of girl makes it her life’s passion to meet the rocker of her dreams, consequences be damned?" Maybe a girl like Penny Lane doesn’t exist in the current rock’n’roll world, but I’m 100% sure that I could be the one. In fact, I’ve experienced the things that Penny has gone through in the movie and now I can find pieces of myself in the character, Penny Lane which I couldn’t find when I was in high school.

One of her groupie books, Let's Spend The Night Together-Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Chicago Review Press July 1 2007)

Like the girls in the movie, I’ve been thinking about how many other music enthusiasts can understand what it is to genuinely love some intoxicating sounds or some band addictively in solitude… "If you ever get lonely you just go to the record store!" this line was totally meaningful to me. That’s actually what I always do. Music might help us get out of a harsh reality, give us a reason to live and then we can trip anywhere we want to go.

I can understand why Penny Lane committed suicide and what the music was to her, what the band was to her and what Russell was to her, seriously…
The attitude of those people in the movie, like the thrill of chasing freedom, to be a part of something special were more pointful than any thicker books. Like the character, Jeff Bebe said, “Rock’n’Roll can save the world!” I personally think this realistic phrase conjures up young adults’ sense of liberation, particularly the people who flourished in the late 1960s and the early 1970s!
My fave scene!!!

According to "Peter Keough "She (Penny Lane) loved the music and that's what the movie's about. In Penny Lane's case, the music never leaves the man, which inevitably made her fall in love with the musician, too. And that's a difficult thing. Somewhere inside is a lost, vulnerable girl." To a girl like Miss Penny Lene who constantly have vulnerable moments in her personal life, falling in love (lust) with rock stars is essential. Of course girls can have a huge crush on musicians, but I presume it’s quite different to “Love” itself.