As a film student I should really abhor a movie like this, and usually do, but you know what? I'm a woman first. I went in to this film with my friends with low expectations and came out taking stock of my own life and relationships. The women in this film are set up at the start to have gloriously perfect lives, only to be knocked down and made to realise that they are human and make mistakes no matter how old they are.
So what if some of the humour is base and childish? If you can't be childish and laugh at stupid, everyday things then what is the point of being alive? And some viewers have had problems with the amount of moping going on in the film - this is conventionally what happens when you lose the love of your life. It is an important part of the healing process, because you are not just mourning the loss of a relationship, you are trying to come to terms with how stupid you were to let it happen to you in the first place! OK, fair enough, the goal of the producers here is to squeeze as much money out of idiots like me, but if you look hard enough there are lessons, not only to be learned, but shared. This film underneath all the glitz and glamour is about real people, real relationships, real problems, and as with real life, it throws humour into the tragedies.
I wouldn't go out of my way to watch this again, but I'm glad I did see it, because as a woman with bad relationship experiences it spoke to me and made me feel a bit better. I still prefer Hitchcock, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying what isn't.
So what if some of the humour is base and childish? If you can't be childish and laugh at stupid, everyday things then what is the point of being alive? And some viewers have had problems with the amount of moping going on in the film - this is conventionally what happens when you lose the love of your life. It is an important part of the healing process, because you are not just mourning the loss of a relationship, you are trying to come to terms with how stupid you were to let it happen to you in the first place! OK, fair enough, the goal of the producers here is to squeeze as much money out of idiots like me, but if you look hard enough there are lessons, not only to be learned, but shared. This film underneath all the glitz and glamour is about real people, real relationships, real problems, and as with real life, it throws humour into the tragedies.
I wouldn't go out of my way to watch this again, but I'm glad I did see it, because as a woman with bad relationship experiences it spoke to me and made me feel a bit better. I still prefer Hitchcock, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying what isn't.