The Women (Rating: 3.5 Crow’s Feet)

“I’m the man I want to marry!” This line expresses a lot of my own frustrations with finding a partner. Annette Benning who plays Sylvia is a successful publisher with unsuccessful past relationships. She was married once to a man who told her to fly with wings that soar, but that he couldn’t keep up with a woman who can soar higher than him. Sometimes, I feel this way.

Over my lifetime, I’ve heard many women say, “I’m waiting to travel to until I get married.” “I’m saving this for when I get proposed to.” Or even, “I don’t want to buy because I’ll register for it when I get engaged.” These comments are not professed as frequently as when I was in my early 20’s, but now at age 28 most of those women are already married. I have always been of a different mind-set. I try what I want, when I want. I buy what I like and don’t think about saving special items for a wedding. At this point in my life, I don’t I figure that I like myself, and I like my life; whomever decides to enter my life had better be able to fit into it. Don’t get me wrong, I know that relationships take compromising. However, I don’t want to sacrifice who I am for someone. Perhaps this is part of my problem with meeting men;)

This movie is about a group of successful women who find out that their friend is being cheated on. Meg Ryan plays May, the woman who has been cheated on. She ends up going to a retreat to find herself. She puts together a collage to determine who she wants to be.

Although this movie received negative reviews from most critics, I enjoyed it. It’s obviously not a ‘thinker’ but it shows some strong women that have some difficult things going on in their lives. It also shows the relationships between women. I wasn’t expecting much from this film, and was pleasantly surprised. I respond to these women because they seem like real friends. Friendship is something I value and truly try to practice. I hope you get as much out of it as I did.