A very good review of 'Sex & the City 2' (ZT)

说了我感觉到了，却没能articulate的。我同意她说的, it\'s sad and it\'s fun ...


Not Much Sex, Even Less City

by Garance Doré


The first images were pretty shocking. Seriously? Wrinkles!!! Maybe the girls of Sex and the City should have stopped while they were ahead. And then does it sparkle. Where is the simple and joyous mess? And what about Carrie’s charming and slightly dated apartment? Miranda’s bizarre outfits? And what about that all-too-glossy world they live in?


And then suddenly, like a perfectly timed wink, the film starts off in the middle of the most improbable marriage that you never saw coming… And Liza Minelli starts dancing around like a kitten to Beyonce.

What I saw in the movie was a commentary on maturity. How the strange ideals of today can age, like shopping, hysteria, sex, friendship. And almost like it’s a little embarrassed of the subject (Aging? Come on, not glamourous!), the film clumsily hides it beneath layers of glitter and rubies provided by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

But in the end, I thought it was totally interesting to see how the women matured on screen as a testament to how we live today (You might have the right to grow old. But at the same time, you have to stay womanly, desirable, desiring.) To see the taught skin of these women, their eyes still full of ambition, absolutely undying.

My mom, who’s Samantha’s age just started up a new career. The perfect body of Carine Roitfeld that inspires young designers.
An entire movie about women over 45.

And it still makes a theater full of teenagers crack up. They will certainly have a completely different view of aging than we do.

It’s sad and it’s fun, this never ending battle to be perfect. Sex and the City 2 definitely paid homage to that, and for that reason alone, I’m willing not to toss the film in the trash. And I even hope there’ll be a third.

Oh, and Abu Dhabbi, it’s nice and all, but the starring actress of the show I’ve decided was New York, and I missed her a lot.

So here’s my super late review of Sex and the City 2. Why write about this movie when I see about three movies a week all year round? I think it’s because these 4 girls really marked a whole generation.

Granted, this wasn’t at all how the 8 year old felt that I talked to yesterday. I asked her, “Are you gonna go see Sex and the City?
and she responds, “Nooooo! Everytime I see the commercial for the movie, those girls scaaaaaaare meeee!!!”

Translation : Tim Sullivan