Check out the lovely slideshow above from the Quirkyalone event last night: a private screening of Sex and the City, complete with pink carpet, a Sex and the City trivia game, and popcorn and cosmos served IN the theater! Special thanks to Julie Blaustein for taking the photos and to Wendy Merill, author of Falling into Manholes, and Jerusha Stewart, author of the Single Girl’s Manifesta, for doing a kick-ass job as the primary organizers of the event. My other co-hosts were Rachel Sarah, author of Single Mom Seeking, and Jane Ganahl, author of Naked on the Page.
My own personal take on Sex in the City: not totally into it, I’m afraid. Carrie’s big denouement: “I let the wedding get bigger than Big. ” The primary storyline–a woman who becomes more concerned with her wedding than her marriage–just didn’t strike me as all that interesting. Haven’t we heard that story before? The central Carrie witticism, which opened the film, annoyed me: “Girls come to New York looking for the two Ls—labels and love.” I’m like hmmm, when I moved to New York, I don’t remember coming for the designers. Maybe the movie was just too long, and too obsessed with shopping.
There were wise and unusual scenes for a mainstream movie: for example, when Miranda questions the wisdom of Carrie giving up her apartment and moving in with Big without the legal protection of marriage. Samantha is my favorite in the film. Her storyline is the most radical and unexpected. She would rather buy herself a diamond ring than have her lover buy it for her. When she breaks up with her young, hunky boyfriend of five years, she tells him something we don’t often hear on the big screen: ““I’ve been in a relationship with myself for 49 years and that’s the one I want to work on.”
What did you think?
lynn says:
i think samantha’s story hit closer to home for me - she was no longer getting any happiness from the relationship with smith being gone all the time and having her life revolve around his…it was time for her to leave. it ultimately came down to which relationship was more important.
Then there are the times when you just realize how stupid you both are and find yourselves back together again (in Carries case). I thought parts of the movie were a little on the uncharacteristic side, but didn’t we all need some closure in the form of a movie?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:20 am