Yes, I am old enough to know better but I accepted a suggestion to view and analyze an old TV Chick Flick series to either learn something or discard it. The one with the four thirty-something girlfriends in NYC looking for love.
The script was well written, and I laughed unceasingly at their antics... specially at the sad and dramatic parts. They went shopping for shoes and men to the extreme.
Summary: They talk of scoring a rich husband and an even richer divorce (in Season 1, Episode 5); they said that intimacy was a bitch (in S1/Ep10); did not like the shape of an engagement ring (S4/Ep12); and continuously showed how neurotic they were.
In the end, the protagonist lands her ultimate contest... an emotionally damaged but rich guy... although she herself was as emotionally damaged as they come.
It's just entertainment.
It was hilarious and scary, both, because it hits home. The war between the sexes has not changed for many of us. In High School we asked: Does she like me? But now, in hindsight, It's been about me being scared that things won't work out and somebody's going to get hurt, and then I'll have to deal with messy emotions.
Does anybody survive the onslaught of constant emotional pain? If they survive, won't the scars last a lifetime? So, why look for trouble? Why look for intimacy in perpetual motion? Why not take a breath and be satisfied with the way it is.
But that wouldn't make a good movie, and would not be good entertainment... and entertaining is what this Chick Flick series is. Lord help us all if we used them as example.
Oh, wait.. we're there! I've met these neurotic critters before.
- copyright 2014 by Willy
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