just got back from Knox with
- a bleeding toe (like i haven't loss enough blood this week)
- a pretzel (almond chocolate)
- U2's Vertigo cd single .. nearly bought Keane's Hopes and Fear
- a Gold Class experience of watching Bridget Jones : the Edge of Reason
- a fond memory of a very2 charming/sexy/handsome/ Mark Dracy a.k.a Colin firth
although most of the reviews that i read about the BJ2 said that the movie lacks a big emotional arc to tie the episodic structure together. However, on a performance level, the movie is practically flawless.
what the hell with the critics.. for me this movie is good as the first one though the writers totally stole the original plot from the first movie and basically the modest charms of Bridget Jones2 are a triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.
here's the breakdown of the story:
Film picks up six weeks after the end of "Diary," with Bridget blissfully happy with upper-class human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (reliable personifier of the kind of bloke all girls want to end up with), with whom she's spent Christmas in the countryside at her gushy parent home. A doofus reporter for TV show "Stand up, Britain," she's bullied at work by her director, Richard, but otherwise life is just grand for the overweight Brit ditz. Even her lubricious boss, and onetime heartthrob, Daniel Cleaver (copyrighted player of the kind of cad all girls temporarily find cuter than Mark Darcy), is away, touring the world as presenter of a dumb travel show.
But, when Bridget's bitchy singleton pals, Shazza, Jude and gay Tom, urge her to dump Mark, and she hears he has been spending time with glamor puss lawyer Rebecca, all of Bridget's neuroses start flooding back big time.
A ski trip to Switzerland again includes a knockabout set piece, and ends with Bridget and Mark splitting up.
It's here, almost halfway through, that a plot of sorts finally starts, signaled by a striking effects sequence of a London nightscape peopled by lonely people in their apartments. Now "single" again, Bridget is dragooned into joining Daniel on a working trip to Thailand.
Realizing Daniel has other things than work on his mind, Bridget takes Shazza along. But when Shazza falls for studly charmer Jed and Daniel turns up the heat, Bridget ends up in a Thai jail.
that just halfway through the story.. i'm already getting bit watery when Mark releasing Bridget from the jail by saying that he just a messenger (actually, he's the one who runs around the world to save BJ from the Madonna-fake-wannabe Thai-whore-girls but forget to mentioned that since he heard about Bridget playing naughty with Cleaver again!!!)
screw Bridget!!
the real reason why i'm into this movie apart from it witty and funny story lines.. is MARK DARCY a.k.a COLIN FIRTH .. With more time than in "Diary," Firth balances Mark's emotional retentiveness, inner warmth and class hang-ups in a surprisingly edgy, unpredictable performance that gives the movie its few moments of real uncertainty.
the way he smiles, the way he walk, anything about him is what a girl dream of (or basically me!!) he is the embodiment of the good boyfriend, the one very girl wished she had. he is not a hunk, but he is a catch. Accesssible, loyal and devoted and the one who said "i like you just as you are"...
hmm.. it sounds a little bit quirky.. after, falling so in LOVE with Sex and the City where single gal rules.. where being single is not the end of the world for women where the character's reflects the sexual freedom, opportunity, and ability to be successful, leaders, strong, assertive and confident in a world where
there's no point of denying that kind of mentality doesnt exist... it is around us.. a 30-year old unmarried women get the tag of "SPINSTER" while unmarried 30-year old got the fabulous tag of "BACHELOR"...
of course there's a big difference between Bridget Jones and the girls in SATC... the way they tackle the issue of 'being single", couldn't be more proud of the girls..
but, how fabulous our single life is.. i still want a guy who appreciate me as much as i appreciate myself to share a room in my big life a.k.a Mark Darcy
aJLa
I'm no angel.. and i manage to remain alive in my own quirky way
