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Such generic dreams.

posted 13 years ago by soslow
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Clearly the whole selling point of this movie is that it is intended to fulfill young women's fantasies. I understand that. I'm not a young woman, I don't pretend to understand them.

My question is this: why must the fantasies presented be so boring and generic? I.e. be an important heiress, hook up with the physically flawless man, be part of the wealth and power set. Perhaps there's some sort of tacked-on moral at the end of the movie, suggesting that the real meaning of life is in friendship or some other generic sentiment, but we know that what gets asses in theatre seats, and DVDs in players, is the fantasy role playing. I just can't help but feel that these young women are capable of so much more -- and for themselves, not just having wish fulfillment thrust magically upon them.

I don't mean to single out this movie as the worst offender, it's just that it's part of a whole industry of efforts to display a fantasy life to young women that I can only see is really uninteresting and passive. Help me out here!

[–] ferrisb1-1 13 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067774/board/thread/181125965

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[–] jshjamaarx3 13 years ago

Wouldn't you want to meet the spouse of your dreams in the eternal city? Girls love Italians, brah.

[–] uruseiranma 13 years ago

Find meaning to your mundane little lives? Make the best of a bad vacation situation, and years later remember those times and laugh at the bad and the good?

Forget it! Handsome guys, fall bass-akwards into money, have at least 6 dozen types of shoes to pick from...take the opportunity to feel like you deserve it and maybe give yourself a 3% chance to feel a little guilty about what you're doing.

"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."

- Toy Story 3 (9/10)

[–] Augustus_Octavian 9 years ago

Because these dreams are what is really important in life. I mean, duh. The movie portrays wealth, beauty and power as being desirable because wealth, beauty and power is in fact desirable.

Is there something wrong with you that you do not understand this very simple logic or are you just too filled with PC *beep* Would you rather be a poor ugly powerless little girl striving through adversity and overcoming it to become a lower-middle class office drone? Doesn't sound that attractive, does it?

The exceptions that weren't shown, that of a good education and good health, is obviously something that would be incredibly boring to show within the context of the movie.