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Sex and the City
The big-screen version of the sitcom comes with loud bangs and shiny colours
Elitsa Grancharova
Although I would prefer to write, watch and recommend European films with deep meaning that promote social responsibility to a certain extent and can change the world or people’s minds in some way or another, the Bulgarian premiere of Sex and the City on June 6 does not leave me impartial. So if you are male, this is the right place to stop reading. Because this is a film for women to enjoy and for men to look at as another way to carry on feeling different, lost and often confused.
The world premiere of the movie was on May 12 in London, 10 years after the series went on air in 1998. There were six seasons of the show and after four years of “holiday”, the four girlfriends have returned, via the big screen, to amuse viewers with their daily issues dressed up in fancy colours and the glamour of New York, with perfect bodies, smiles and questionable values.
This is what everyone thinks until starting to listen to their dialogue, which show that behind all the brilliance, they are just four ordinary women, of course a bit exaggerated to make it all look like a fairytale or to make you blush, just as you did in front of the TV screen at home on those lonely evenings. But this time, no one will notice your red face, as the darkness of the cinema hall will hide it.
The main character and storyteller, columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), again entertains with her sensible, sharp wit, this time in an even more open and frank manner. For better or for worse, she decides to get married to the man she has been dating for 10 years, Mr Big (Chris Noth), who apparently remained her most-devoted male fan through all these years. But will this wedding ever come true after so many years of excitement and partings, passion and hate, love and betrayal, even other marriages?
In any case, the viewer becomes the fifth friend, the one that observes the shopping fever surrounding the wedding, all the comments, recommendations, advice and worries that the other three friends give Carrie, and as usual, is left with nothing to say, as most likely all that one woman might think, suggest or feel in such situation has already been said.
Other events during the film include the pregnancy of the posh but sensitive Charlotte (Kristin Davis), after all the difficulties that she experienced during the series, but also after already she had adopted her first daughter and had felt what it really meant to be a mother. Nothing new, this all happens in real life almost as often, so devotees of the series may well be pleased to see this development, or at least will think: “This is what we all expected.”
Some things however never change, so Carrie’s next best friend Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is still under the flash bulbs of various young men’s cameras and continues endlessly enjoying her position. An acclaimed PR agent and unstoppable nymphomaniac man-eater, Samantha is claimed to be every feminist's hero, as she has the ability to conform every situation to her sexual instincts.
This is the place to point out that some women cringe when they heard Sex and the City described as somehow “feminist.” They think, not entirely without reason, that the four characters' self-obsession is exceeded only by their man-obsession, which is in turn rivalled by their shoe-obsession. They are all for some raunchy, female-centred entertainment, but to profess that Sex in the City is anything but mindless frippery would be severely overstating the case.
Because of her need to always share her bed experiences, in the film, the four friends have to adjust to the fact they need to accept Miranda’s (Cynthia Nixon) young son in their “modest” company, by referring to making love as “colouring”. So Samantha becomes a quite productive painter in the eyes of the child, while Carrie and the others also share some of their drawing experiences.
But despite all sharp criticism that Samantha, or any of the other four friends, has for the others, it can still amaze the viewer how the foursome can endlessly only laugh out loud to words that most probably, in real life, would not remain unnoticed, or ever mentioned at all.
Source: Month2Come
Elitsa Grancharova
Although I would prefer to write, watch and recommend European films with deep meaning that promote social responsibility to a certain extent and can change the world or people’s minds in some way or another, the Bulgarian premiere of Sex and the City on June 6 does not leave me impartial. So if you are male, this is the right place to stop reading. Because this is a film for women to enjoy and for men to look at as another way to carry on feeling different, lost and often confused.The world premiere of the movie was on May 12 in London, 10 years after the series went on air in 1998. There were six seasons of the show and after four years of “holiday”, the four girlfriends have returned, via the big screen, to amuse viewers with their daily issues dressed up in fancy colours and the glamour of New York, with perfect bodies, smiles and questionable values.
This is what everyone thinks until starting to listen to their dialogue, which show that behind all the brilliance, they are just four ordinary women, of course a bit exaggerated to make it all look like a fairytale or to make you blush, just as you did in front of the TV screen at home on those lonely evenings. But this time, no one will notice your red face, as the darkness of the cinema hall will hide it.
The main character and storyteller, columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), again entertains with her sensible, sharp wit, this time in an even more open and frank manner. For better or for worse, she decides to get married to the man she has been dating for 10 years, Mr Big (Chris Noth), who apparently remained her most-devoted male fan through all these years. But will this wedding ever come true after so many years of excitement and partings, passion and hate, love and betrayal, even other marriages?
In any case, the viewer becomes the fifth friend, the one that observes the shopping fever surrounding the wedding, all the comments, recommendations, advice and worries that the other three friends give Carrie, and as usual, is left with nothing to say, as most likely all that one woman might think, suggest or feel in such situation has already been said.
Other events during the film include the pregnancy of the posh but sensitive Charlotte (Kristin Davis), after all the difficulties that she experienced during the series, but also after already she had adopted her first daughter and had felt what it really meant to be a mother. Nothing new, this all happens in real life almost as often, so devotees of the series may well be pleased to see this development, or at least will think: “This is what we all expected.”
Some things however never change, so Carrie’s next best friend Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is still under the flash bulbs of various young men’s cameras and continues endlessly enjoying her position. An acclaimed PR agent and unstoppable nymphomaniac man-eater, Samantha is claimed to be every feminist's hero, as she has the ability to conform every situation to her sexual instincts.
This is the place to point out that some women cringe when they heard Sex and the City described as somehow “feminist.” They think, not entirely without reason, that the four characters' self-obsession is exceeded only by their man-obsession, which is in turn rivalled by their shoe-obsession. They are all for some raunchy, female-centred entertainment, but to profess that Sex in the City is anything but mindless frippery would be severely overstating the case.
Because of her need to always share her bed experiences, in the film, the four friends have to adjust to the fact they need to accept Miranda’s (Cynthia Nixon) young son in their “modest” company, by referring to making love as “colouring”. So Samantha becomes a quite productive painter in the eyes of the child, while Carrie and the others also share some of their drawing experiences.
But despite all sharp criticism that Samantha, or any of the other four friends, has for the others, it can still amaze the viewer how the foursome can endlessly only laugh out loud to words that most probably, in real life, would not remain unnoticed, or ever mentioned at all.
Source: Month2Come
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