If I were Michael Patrick King, the brilliant writer-director (is he gay or straight? my guess is gay; no straight man could be this perceptive), I would be incensed by the reviews, which have totally ignored the blatantly obvious point of the movie’s very existence. Shame on you, reviewers.
Our culture could do with more of Mr. King’s sensibility. That his messages come wrapped in the engaging trappings of a gloriously entertaining chick flick, and that no pundit in the media has seen past those trappings to the heart of his work, shows you how desperately our culture of war and lies needs his sensibility, and how radically we ignore the finer and feminine strengths of the human heart.
If you yourself saw the movie and missed the whole point of it like the reviewers did, go back and see it again. This time with a clue to the movie’s real import, and with your eyes and your mind wide open to its importance. You’ll enjoy it even more than the first time.
And don’t think I saw all this because I’m some amazingly perceptive hetero man. It’s only because my girlfriend pointed these things out to me. It takes a woman to know what this great chick flick is really all about.
My girlfriend had only one caveat about the movie: not enough time addressed to shoes. She could’ve done with a little more superficiality.
Article comments
1 - Joanne Huspek
Great review.
Here is the difference in male and female perception. I liked Sex in the City - the TV show. On the other hand, my husband hated it, and it was all because he couldn't wrap his head around the show and get past the title. He thought "sex" before anything else. I saw an intricate relationship between the four women. Oh, the clothes were cool, the shoes, NYC, but what really mattered was the four women.
I don't go to movies, but I can't wait for this to come out in DVD.
2 - anon4mail
Thank you, Adam!!!
3 - anon4mail
Joanne ... Go see the movie in the theater! By doing so you're voting with your wallet, and it matters. As this article points out, Hollywood and its many critics are misogynistic. If we're ever going to have another great movie about intelligent women over 30, we need to put our money where our opinion is.
4 - Jordan Richardson
If Hollywood is misogynistic, where was this movie made?
5 - Larry Gossett
Deep movies or tv shows are rare these days. All the flash and camera tricks are great eye candy, but it is the reason why nobody cares anymore about morales anymore. Shallowness, sexism, and just plain blah(for lack of a better word). I think, though, that putting the sex scene at the end is just another example of trying to resolve problems with sex. Sex is not the answer to marital/relationship problems. It is just another sex scene regardless of the who is pleasing who or why or how hard. I am sick of the sex in movies, implied or actual. It's getting old, really old. Am not gay or would I ever consider such a terrible thing for that is an abomination. This society is a violent, miserable, blind, wretched, poor, nightmare. The Holy Bible makes this clear. This movie is just another, although deep which is nice, but still another example of sex and violence permeating everything. It's overkill. If I want superficial, I will watch Clueless. If I want deep and meaningful, I would watch Little House On The Prairie. TV shows like that are much better than the stuff we have now. Black and white movies of the 30's through the 60's are far better than the stuff we have now, but I didn't buy a widescreen, high-def tv for b&w movies. lol. Horton Hears A Who, Ice Age, Transformers, Harry Potter, and Spiderwick Chronicles. oh yeah. anyway, I don't watch movies like this and will not watch it at the theater or on dvd. have not and will not. I find this whole discussion rather silly. peoples lives should not be made into movies like this, real but exaggerated or imainary but realistic. It hurts to see marriages and relationships suffer and hear of this on the news when come jeolous husband/bf murders his wife so he can have the other girl, money, power, or anything else. Maybe if Clinton did win, things would change, but the Revelations suggest they will change...half the population whiped from the face of the earth. two hundred+ million killed in the US alone. Now that's change...hehehe. my kind. hear that Obama, change.
6 - Adam Ash
Larry:
You're some bizarro from another dimension. Revelations!? WTF?
Adam Ash.