Change Your Image
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Reviews
Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
The women's role in this film
The major problem I had with this film is that in the end the majority of the changes made were made on the part of the women. That is, only the women changed their behaviors in an effort to salvage their marriages. Did any of the men change? The top litigator decided to spend more time with her husband and daughter; the loud mouth hairdresser changed to become a nicer, sweeter person; the therapist will be more open and communicative and the overweight woman loses weight. By concentrating all of the soul changing on the women, it makes it seem as though the men were not at fault.
Another problem was the way some heavy issues got treated so lightly. For instance, there is no discussion on the husband who slept with another man and whose wife slept with the same man. These black men sleeping on the down low is the reason black women are the number one in the nation being infected with AIDS! But this issue was not discussed in the film!
Crush (2001)
This film overlooks one very important crush
I know it is 2005 and many of you have probably already seen this movie, but it is my first time seeing it on Lifetime. I thought it was a pretty good movie until I begin to see what was really happening between Andie McDowell's character (Kate) and her friend, Anna Chancellor's character, (Molly). At first I thought Molly was just bitter against men because she had been in a number of crummy marriages, and while that may be part of the problem, the real truth of the matter is that she has a HUGE "crush" on Kate. This explains the lengths she goes through to keep any man away from Kate. Molly is a lesbian whose loyalties lie with women (which may explain the failures of her three marriages) and her lesbian tendencies come out at near the end of the movie when she kisses the other woman at the medics party. This confirmed for me what I had been suspecting all along that Molly was a gay character in this movie and she wanted Kate from the beginning. Molly is very domineering and controlling with her friend Janine in whom she has no sexual interest, but rather she uses Janine as pawn to help constantly interfere in and destroy Kate's relationships. Molly initiates the breakup of any love interest Kate may express in a man and being Kate's doctor, she also has access to Kate's body. The director was very clever in very subtly showing/hiding this lesbian aspect/triangle of the film, but lesbianism is the fantsy of most males, even directors. As we can see, love between women is not always a pretty or sexy sight.