1 post tagged “chick flicks”
I had one of those Saturday's where I stay at home and watch endless 'chick' flicks, oh how I abhor that label and they still leave me at the same conclusion..
Those things don't happen..at least not to average people, people I see, a person that I am...
The utter flaw of the romantic comedy, or romedy, is that they give everything in 2-d guise, so thinly veiled that you are so focused on the only 'real' or important goal, love.
It reduces women to the image of being nothing without a counterpart...yes they may have a career, great shoes, hair, house, car, what have you, but in the end all of that is meaningless, and when it comes down to it, love is the only real thing.in fact all that 'crap' is there to fill the void of that missing piece.
Each movie sets up this same exact premise with the same exact end result...only few movies have ever done it different...maybe My Best Friend's Wedding, after all she got the gay guy since they portrayed gay men as also unhappy..and marginalized like the career woman...because if I remember right he chose the girl who didn't really have a career anyway....
Not cynical at all as I write this.
So what movies tell me is my chanel glasses, tokidoki bags, and cute beetle are only tokens of my goals as I am unable to find love..and once I find love I won't care anymore about those said things and if I still do, it's okay he'll buy them for me or something...
This is being stereotypical of course, but you get the idea...in the end it boils down to some version of possession, etc...and that makes me sad...
Love is supposed to be a meaning a feeling a dream a hope a desire, a want over a need yet we reduce it to comparable materialistic worth...or do I have it wrong am I clueless and in the end it's all about choosing the guy with the best 401k.
