Saw the movie last night and I loved it personally.  Yeah, it wasn’t about clothes, it wasn’t about money, it was about life, love, and aging.  How can you not love it?  All those reviewers, most have gotta be men.  They called it a clothes show.  WRONG.  I didn’t even notice the clothes, I, and most of the women in the theater were engrossed by the lives on the women.

 It was gripping in a more real way than the show.  I had tears at scenes in my eyes.  The other women I went to see it with, we laughed and cried at pretty much the same points.  All of it we’ve been through either as the woman suffering or the friend there to lend a shoulder.  There is this strength of the friendship which really shines in the movie.

SPOILER ALERT!!! DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW!!!!

The movie was fantastic.  It took up 3 years after the end of the show.  And all of the women had moved on with their lives.  The first part of the show was Carrie and Big getting married.  There was a scene where they packed up her apartment, laughed, and cried over champagne. It felt like a chapter of their lives was closing.  However, it was not meant to be.  Big left Carrie at the altar.  While Miranda found out that Steve was cheating.  Charlotte was happy and Samantha was unsatisfied with her life.

The second part was Carrie finding herself again.  Leaning on her old friends and one new assistant.  She was regaining her life and moving forward. I think it was during this time where women can really relate, sure they went to Mexico together and fashion shows, but EVERY woman has done that! 

When a friend was particularly down, I drove to see her and we just hung out.  I called my DH and said I have to be here and we just were together.  I can’t explain it, but I feel as though the longer you are single the more you depend on your female friends.  Although I am married, most of my girlfriends at 30+ are still single.  The trials and tribulations are hard.  And when my relationship is rocky (hey no marriage is perfect), they are the ones I lean on.

So I didn’t even notice the clothes in the movie.  It was more like Carrie hanging out with friends and changing.  She dyed her hair back to brown to change and heal.  And in the new year’s scene she makes her way through snow and cold to be with Mirand on NY eve.  It was exactly what women do with their best friends, I just teared up.

Finally the show ended with forgiveness.  But I don’t think it was only about forgiveness, it was also about growing up and making decisions for yourself.  There was Miranda and Steve choosing to make it work.  They really examined what marriage was about.  While Samantha learned her most important relationship was with herself.  And she was willing to take the risk of being alone.  AMAZING.  How many shows let women be alone at 50 and happy with it???  Charlotte had everything in life she ever wanted and it seemed very fufilling, I was very happy she had found a happy ending. 

While Carrie, she forgave Big and ended up marrying him.  I was a bit disappointed and hoped that they would just end up living together, much like the show ended, on her terms.  But they got married at the courthouse, just the two of them.  And I TOTALLY got it.  DH and I married the exact same way, except we didn’t even celebrate afterwards with friends.

I don’t know but the ceremony and our committment was for US.  No one else.  Sure we got married 1 year later in a splashy affair, but it didn’t feel like it was our wedding.  It was for everyone else, but having that moment for us alone it meant something.

Any woman will relate to being low and having no one but your friends to depend on.  And sometimes family is wonderful, but it’s your girlfriends who you really let it out to.  And the movie just made you feel it. 

The clothes were gorgeous but I don’t feel like they were the point of the movie. Nor was it about excess, the clothes just represented the women. 

Must see movie for women and I don’t think men will hate it as much.

I loved the movie.