This film was fantastic. I loved it! Though, it was totally a chick-flick. There were parts in the movie where I felt like I was watching "Sex and the City". I have never been through a divorce, parents or otherwise, but I have known people that were. None of them were due to 'trust' issues, but a divorce, no matter the cause always tears the heart apart. It was great watching Erica grow as a person throughout the film after her divorce. She really came into her own, both as a newly single woman; really, an independent woman, and a mother. I liked the sense of realism that the film had, it was almost like all the actors add-libbed the entire thing, rather then had a script. I love the scene where she's trying to have sex with Charlie, and totally botches the whole thing up, first with her head getting caught in her shirt, and then because of the giggle fit in the bed. In a real, heated up, movie love scene, those kinds of things just don't happen.
I also connected with the scenes where Erica talked with her friends. I have found myself more then once, in situations just like it, talking about how inadequate or perhaps how "awesome" we are, (roll eyes), who's our favorite actor/actress, men, food, 'play', ect. It really added to the realism of the film.
The ending was, again, bitter-sweet. I felt good for Erica, but I wanted to know more. What happened after? How is her daughter? But, overall, I liked it.
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Good comments, Stephanie. I'm glad you appreciated the "realism" of the women and their relationships. I would note that the sex scene with Charlie is another example of this realism, and counters the more conventional, less "real", Hollywood scenes. Do you think the ending's ambiguity/lack of closure works?
ReplyDeleteI think so. Because, in real life, do you actually get an ending with "closure"? Life doesn't work that way, and the ending in the film showed that.
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