movie review: Sex and the City
Tonight I saw Sex and the City (the movie). Although there were some annoying moments, overall, it was cute and sweet. They did a great job with the beginning sequence to summarize what has happened in the series.
WARNING: spoilers
Recently I've been getting more comments about my resemblance to the woman who plays Miranda. I started getting that when I was pregnant with Skyler, so its nothing new. In the movie, Miranda has married Steve (the father of her child). All seems to be going well, except they haven't had sex for a bout 6 months. Steve admits one night that he slept with another woman. Miranda moves out, they have shared custody of their son. Eventually they end up in this therapy program in which they have a series of sessions, then decide that they will take a break for two weeks, and if, after that time, they want to move forward, they will meet on the Brooklyn bridge. If they meet there, they agree to let the past in the past and to move forward together, despite their past hurts. Of course, they end up both there on the bridge together.
There is a moment when they are separated, and Miranda is relating this funny thing about Steve to the girls and they are looking at her like she is a complete idiot for not staying with him. I've definitely had moments like that. Once I was telling my best friend some story about D, and afterwards she paused and said "You know, now I know why people kept asking me if [her longtime sweetheart] and I were going to get back together after we broke up". I know. You hear someone tell the story and its like "so... why couldn't you guys work it out?"
Because stories don't tell the whole story... as it were.
I think I deliberately stayed emotionally distant from that character. I think she is like me in some ways. There was a scene when she is trying to decide whether to go to the bridge. She is looking at a yellow legal pad of pros and cons about Steve. I know I definitely drew up lists myself, trying to sort it all out. In the end, Miranda and I both followed our gut... with very different results.
Ahhhhh its just a movie.
WARNING: spoilers
Recently I've been getting more comments about my resemblance to the woman who plays Miranda. I started getting that when I was pregnant with Skyler, so its nothing new. In the movie, Miranda has married Steve (the father of her child). All seems to be going well, except they haven't had sex for a bout 6 months. Steve admits one night that he slept with another woman. Miranda moves out, they have shared custody of their son. Eventually they end up in this therapy program in which they have a series of sessions, then decide that they will take a break for two weeks, and if, after that time, they want to move forward, they will meet on the Brooklyn bridge. If they meet there, they agree to let the past in the past and to move forward together, despite their past hurts. Of course, they end up both there on the bridge together.
There is a moment when they are separated, and Miranda is relating this funny thing about Steve to the girls and they are looking at her like she is a complete idiot for not staying with him. I've definitely had moments like that. Once I was telling my best friend some story about D, and afterwards she paused and said "You know, now I know why people kept asking me if [her longtime sweetheart] and I were going to get back together after we broke up". I know. You hear someone tell the story and its like "so... why couldn't you guys work it out?"
Because stories don't tell the whole story... as it were.
I think I deliberately stayed emotionally distant from that character. I think she is like me in some ways. There was a scene when she is trying to decide whether to go to the bridge. She is looking at a yellow legal pad of pros and cons about Steve. I know I definitely drew up lists myself, trying to sort it all out. In the end, Miranda and I both followed our gut... with very different results.
Ahhhhh its just a movie.
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