I saw the SITC movie this past weekend week end with one of my best girl friends and we loved it.
I have to admit I liked the series although I didn’t at first and I didn’t always agree with or even always like the characters or some of the choices they made and it’s definitely adult fair and not everyone’s cup of tea.
But I think that people who never watched the show make blind assumptions that it’s just all about wealthy women living in NYC, having indiscriminate sex with any man who comes along while wearing fabulous designer clothes and shoes and going to chi chi restaurants and how men can sometimes be cads. Well admittedly, there was some of that going on and some of it is played for humor or for irony, but if that’s all one got out of it, they never really watched it or one totally missed the point, at least the one I got from it.
The show and the movie wasn’t really about sex or even men, but about the close and sometimes difficult and sometimes brutally honest but long lasting and supportive relationships that women have with one another as they go through the many stages and joys and some mistakes of life – dating, career, marriage, children, infertility, infidelity, divorce, illness, menopause, reconciliation…. I can tell you that when my very best girlfriends and I get together we tell each other everything and I mean everything. The raunchy and boastful conversations that men have in the locker room have nothing on the casual but very honest conversations that women can have with each other over a sandwich and salad at Panera Bread.
And I really liked how the movie ended. In the end it wasn’t at all about fashion or materialism or man bashing and in fact the way I saw it, the end of the movie was a bit of a statement about how material things and possessions really aren’t that important. The last scene in the move ends in a simple greasy spoon diner, very far from being a chi chi restaurant with three of the gals happily married to really great guys, some of them with kids, and husbands who have shown that, while not perfect stereotypes of the picture perfect man; are still really great guys and worth committing to. In the end, husbands and family and good friends are more important than the clothes or really great hand bags or shoes or fabulous penthouse apartments.
Is your "didn't always" more than or less than 10%?
The show and the movie wasn’t really about sex...
Right! They could have left Sex out of the title and just called it "And the City".
... about the close and sometimes difficult and sometimes brutally honest but long lasting and supportive relationships that women have with one another as they go through the many stages and joys and some mistakes of life – dating, career, marriage, children, infertility, infidelity, divorce, illness, menopause, reconciliation….
Maybe I would like to see it after all... at one of those places with food and cocktails and of course, someone else picking up the tab.
The raunchy and boastful conversations that men have in the locker room have nothing on the casual but very honest conversations that women can have with each other over a sandwich and salad at Panera Bread.
Holy #^%! I am dialing the corporate headquarters of Panera Bread as I write this post. (Chicks don't have a corner on the multi-task market.)
The last scene in the move ends in a simple greasy spoon diner
What about the sushi?
In the end, husbands and family and good friends are more important than the clothes or really great hand bags or shoes or fabulous penthouse apartments.
Wow... So, it really is a deep movie after all. I should probably stop making fun of it.
Na.