I think this movie is the most in-depth filming of the TV series and movie version of the same name, both in terms of the performance of the actors and the maturity of the director.
I have always dismissed the view that "Sex and the City" is a McDonald's pop culture fast food about sex and city, fashion and love.
Many literary and artistic young women, although dressed in ZARA and HM, talk about Bunuel in Starbucks, and often add a sentence of English to the dialogue, as if they are the rebirth of George Sang, and are proud of criticizing Hollywood commercial films, even if they are there. The U.S. also has to show a nonchalant Woody Allen style.
The young literary and artistic youths are already very annoying. The young literary and old women are a piece of over-simmered chicken, biting hard and dry and tasteless. In order to avoid squeezing out the big teeth, they had to still drop it in the end.
These women who speak acrimoniously and like to be deep and melancholy have infinitely westernized appearance, but in their bones they are just an older Chinese young woman - they are extremely fascinated by material things, have a strong desire to control, and they don't believe in anything. The snobbery Chinese peasant woman insists on showing off her so-called intellectuality with the style of the left bank.
I always think that the benchmark for measuring whether a person is truly Westernized is not how many cups of cappuccino he drank, but whether he believes in Christianity.
So I have always wondered how many Chinese people really understand Sex and the City and understand the Puritan ethics in it. But I think that without understanding the American Protestant cultural traditions, it is impossible to truly understand what it wants to express. A relatively tolerant but actually conservative American Puritan ethical concept hidden under the almost absurd plot.
This concept is the core of American cultural thinking, that is, to allow a certain degree of moral tolerance, to have considerable trust in women’s wisdom, and to allow young people to come from the absurdity of their nature, but in the end, everyone must return to tradition and mainstream society. Group.
Therefore, I never treat Sex and the City as a pure entertainment show, but a textbook for American women’s growth. It does not promote sexual indulgence and liberation like the radical feminism in Europe, and pursues absolute gender equality, but always In a conservative and traditional range, girls are allowed to try all the necessary experiences for growth, mature in the process, and eventually become a woman with independent thinking, self-esteem and self-love. The lessons I learned about friendship, love and life itself from this work are more abundant than all the women's books I read before the age of 30, and the most important thing is that it emphasizes that sex and love must be one. View. American literary and artistic works are all about teaching and fun. I think Americans have a natural missionary fanaticism and propaganda ability. They can always express conservative and strict religious views in a relaxed and entertaining way.
Although the character of Samantha is slightly exaggerated, the author's intention seems to be ironic. But this character has the most extensive supporters in China, and it is clear that she fits in with the matriarchal instincts of Chinese women that have never disappeared. Think of her as an American Wu Zetian.
The character of Kelly, like her actor, is actually not well received by Chinese female audiences, although this character is the model of American beauty that the author has tried to promote.
I have read countless articles criticizing SJP, but it all boils down to being old, ugly, and more and more like a little woman.
The Chinese have always liked young women. Even women themselves are the same. Although this nation pursues a philosophy of exchanging youth for old age, it surprisingly worships the young---the flesh, which is just the flesh.
Chinese people like young women. From waitresses to all areas where women can enter, it shows that they have a pathological fascination with youth. What they never cared about was the woman's soul, thought, and mind. If Westerners say that women have no souls, it is a reflection on the goddess worship tradition, then the Chinese treat women as a pure body.
Any culture has a nostalgia for youth, but like the Chinese, it is still rare for a nation that only values the appearance but not the inside.
According to Chinese standards, SJP is not a beautiful woman, but they don't know that an interesting and a little brainy woman is far more interesting than a vase. Looking at the heroines in our TV series, they are simply soulless wooden beauties.
If you can't appreciate SJP, it means you don't like Sex and the City at all.
Therefore, a scene of such four old women is quite boring to many people.
I did not see the so-called depreciation of non-Christian American culture in the film. The film promotes nothing more than food, prayer, and love. The most important thing is the last item because this is the root of Western culture, four American women who yearn for luxury. After traveling to a desert paradise that was rich in material but lacked the last item, he returned to the mainstream Puritan culture.
Kelly finally gave up the life of a single girl who saw her life as an eternal dating and dance party, and became a little woman who nestled in her husband's arms and watched old black and white movies. It was only after experiencing an Arab-style feast that she understood that the essence of marriage is to accompany your loved one to grow old.
People always grow up, and they all grow old and die.
Life is not about dances and banquets. The four American sisters who have accompanied us through our youth will also be wives and mothers just like us, and they will age in the ordinary life.
Yes, TV shows are good. People were still young at that time, and the muscles on their faces weren’t so drooping. It’s always dating, prom banquets, and soap operas of misunderstanding. Then the women gradually get old, get married, have children, and live together. Most people in this world live the same way.
However, what I envy is that they once had the freedom of choice and rich memories, and did not waste a woman's life.
How old is it?
When you are old,
sleepy and drowsy,
how many people admire your beauty when you are young, fake or true,
only I love the soul of your pilgrim.
The most romantic thing is to grow old with you.
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