The single girls of SATC are 10 years older, and not single anymore. But when it comes to love, being older never means that you are wiser. You simply have traveled more miles in the quest of finding love, perfecting love and discovering love. Breaking up when you're 40 still feels as crap as it was 20 years ago. Leaving someone at 50 is as hard as it was when you're 23. Nothing much had changed.What makes it different is that Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte are as relentless in their pursuit of love as they grow older as when they were younger. Most of us are jaded and disillusioned with love as we get older. When we walked out of the cinema, the movie affected my friends so much -- they were dissapointed because the 4 girls' NY no longer echoes theirs. Carrie kept a "love" key chain as her good luck charm!! What's up with that?? These girls should wisened up and be more like Miranda. Realistic and tough.
I wonder why my friends take the pink-coloured-SATC movie so personally? It is after all, just a movie, and not only that... one that is sponsored by Manolo Blahnik as the star diamond engagement ring.
For the longest time, we believe that the NY lived by Carrie is a representation of our own world; the same horrible yet exciting, excruciating dating scene, the struggle of gender and career, the constant battle with wanting everything,... that when all of these are reduced to the simple quest for love we get angry. We are disappointed that our lovely characters are losing sight of the important things in life. Not to say that love is not important, but really... it can't be all?!
Is it? Or is it not?
2 comments:
Absolutely right....
As I get older and "wiser", when it comes down to it, it is an incredible feeling when we finally find it. I am the first to admit, though I am still yet to find one. It might not be the only thing, but without it, as the cliche says, life means nothing.
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