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At the start of the new year, 32-year-old Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life-and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is...( read more 
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MCT:May 9, 2008I can't watch this movie too often, even though I like it, because every time I do, I have to watch Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth , turning an hour and a half break into an all-day break!
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MCT:May 6, 2008
a hilarious story about a 30-something woman who decides to start writing a diary. we follow her into a disastrous relationship with her boss, and a blossoming one with a friend of her family's.
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MCT:May 5, 2008This dog's breakfast recalls Adorno's comment on the nature of regressive listening, or the structure of popular music: the parts have no relation to the whole. According to his Marxian perspective on art, the 'whole' is representative of the social totality; it mediates the individual elements of a work and that constitutes its reflective or critical aspect. Bridget Jones's Diary has no whole, no soul, and no heart: as a woman, one would have to be a masochist to accept this as a 'chick flick'. Essentially, the formal and narrative incoherence of this film is due to the fact that it's a series of punchlines. Except for the requisite obstacles and "oh what a bad man" moments, every scene delivers emotional gratification, idiotic jokes, or corny sentimentality.
It's interesting to note that this film frontloads some reasonably amusing high culture humour, such as comments on Kafka, Leavis' cultural criticism, and a cameo by Salman Rushdie. Was this meant to fool people into watching the film, so that they could justify the experience to themselves? The film is knowing about its source material, poking fun at Romantic discourse about passion being equivalent to a natural force (the cheesy lightning, snow falling during the ending, the comic rowing scene). It also includes some very slight nods to 'Pride and Prejudice', but Austen's sophisticated criticism of the way people act in society is reduced to "this guy seems bad but he's really pretty awesome" (ie. Colin Firth).
The diluted incorporation of sophisticated culture disguises that this film is really a series of disconnected and poorly written vignettes. That the musical impact comes from FM radio demonstrates just how pathetic this film is. The film makes a token effort to be not insulting to women by having the central thematic notion that "they should be loved for who they are", but it appears that who they are is smoking, drinking, depressed workaholic spinsters that need sex and/or a man to be happy. This film is in itself an essay against the slackening of culture in our postmodern society. -
MCT:May 3, 2008Did you know this movie was inspired by Jane Austen's work. Author of the famous novel "Pride and Prejudice" if you havent seen I suggest you do.
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I LOVE this movie, I watched it 5times and laughed each time I saw it. It is also romantic, in the end Bridget finds her true love Mr. Mark Darcy. I give this movie a rating of 100%.
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chinapotter1posted 661 days ago
