Some movies warm your heart and stir your soul
As I sat there all by myself, all I could think was that, yes, these girls dealt with typical teenage problems that our society understands, but this movie pushed all kinds of buttons for me emotionally and from the sound of the tears flowing like fountains, it did others as well. With the tag line being "Laugh. Cry. Share the pants," this movie can be classified as "chick-flick" or a "tear-jerker," and should be. Though dreaded by men, women tend to flock to them as some sort of distorted therapy. Everyone or at least women know the phrase "a good cry helps sometimes," and cry I did. I had been told that this was an adapted screenplay from a book and so therefore I could not help my desire to analysis it. The teenagers are going through major changes in their lives and this pair of "magical" pants connects them and fosters a sense of security for each of the girls. Whether movies or novels people tend to bring "baggage" to the table and they tend to connect with the characters or issues of the story in some fashion. For me it was the "I'm angry at my father arc." My father passed away last year at this time and the father-daughter relationship in this movie reminded me very much of mine with my father. These overly emotional movies that trash your heart and rebuild it at the same time, can be contrived as my therapy because the mere fact that a writer has developed these concepts that I and many others can relate to means that someone somewhere has dealt with the same tribulations. Upon researching into "emotional" movies, I found that of course the intention of the creators of "The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants" could be to obtain an emotional connection with the audience because others have intended the same. Writer-director Todd Haynes once said in an interview about his movie "Far from Heaven:"
that his "hope was that ultimately you wouldn't be watching the form anymore, but would find yourself entering it and engaging it and bringing it to life with your own memories of movies like it, your connection to the content of the film -- that combination of things we all bring to movie experience. We hoped that the form wouldn't stay materially present in your mind's eye but that it would come and it would go."
Overall, I believe what makes a movie memorable is the effect it has on you. People idolize movies for many different reasons but I also believe that everyone has to make a connection in some way to enjoy the film.
As I sat there all by myself, all I could think was that, yes, these girls dealt with typical teenage problems that our society understands, but this movie pushed all kinds of buttons for me emotionally and from the sound of the tears flowing like fountains, it did others as well. With the tag line being "Laugh. Cry. Share the pants," this movie can be classified as "chick-flick" or a "tear-jerker," and should be. Though dreaded by men, women tend to flock to them as some sort of distorted therapy. Everyone or at least women know the phrase "a good cry helps sometimes," and cry I did. I had been told that this was an adapted screenplay from a book and so therefore I could not help my desire to analysis it. The teenagers are going through major changes in their lives and this pair of "magical" pants connects them and fosters a sense of security for each of the girls. Whether movies or novels people tend to bring "baggage" to the table and they tend to connect with the characters or issues of the story in some fashion. For me it was the "I'm angry at my father arc." My father passed away last year at this time and the father-daughter relationship in this movie reminded me very much of mine with my father. These overly emotional movies that trash your heart and rebuild it at the same time, can be contrived as my therapy because the mere fact that a writer has developed these concepts that I and many others can relate to means that someone somewhere has dealt with the same tribulations. Upon researching into "emotional" movies, I found that of course the intention of the creators of "The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants" could be to obtain an emotional connection with the audience because others have intended the same. Writer-director Todd Haynes once said in an interview about his movie "Far from Heaven:"
that his "hope was that ultimately you wouldn't be watching the form anymore, but would find yourself entering it and engaging it and bringing it to life with your own memories of movies like it, your connection to the content of the film -- that combination of things we all bring to movie experience. We hoped that the form wouldn't stay materially present in your mind's eye but that it would come and it would go."
Overall, I believe what makes a movie memorable is the effect it has on you. People idolize movies for many different reasons but I also believe that everyone has to make a connection in some way to enjoy the film.