The Bachelorette is movie directed and written by LeslyeHeadland. It is a comic twist of what the reality of an Americanhas become to be. The movie centers in three friends that have been asked to bebridesmaids of the “last member of their clique” in high school. Reagan (aperfectionist and jealous friend), Gena (a sarcastic rebel) and Katie (anot-very-book-smart girl) while mocking Becky (the soon-to-be-wife)for being aplus-size, they break the wedding dress hours previous to the ceremony whichleads them to go through a series of “adventures” involving drugs, sex andlove. The movie shows that the empire has been controlling us in a way that makesus believe that if we do the “right things” – go to school , have an education,be beautiful in the societal limits, be a size 00… we will find someone to getmarried; even though, that is obviously not how you find someone to love. Even thoughthe movie itself was the typical American movie where the characters do allthese "messed up" things to fix something they did wrong, it makes you reflex onhow people have been influencing you in a way that you say to yourself, “youare not perfect, you need to be more perfect or else you’ll end up alone.” Not onlydoes the empire encourage us to distortion the beauty that God has gifted us,but also to make the not-right-things “the norm”. For example, the movie portrays sexbefore marriage as a completely normal thing, Why? Because in the twenty firstcentury fornication is being practiced by many, even Christians; majority wins,right? Also, even though the charactersdid drugs, no real police men were found addressing the problem. Although themessages: love always wins; everyone is beautiful the way they are; there arestill gentlemen in the world, but also “jerks”; if a door closes, there isalways a window opened, etc. were developed, other issues of the real world were shown asnormal things , although they are really important and sensitiveproblems (sex before marriage, adultery, abortion, swearing, stealing,prostitution, racism, etc.) But there is a catch, even though the empire wants to monopolize our imagination (believing either that there is only one way to serve God and that Christians should act a certain-determined way or that there is no God and we are "free" to do whatever we want to) we should always remember that God wants us to use our "weird" imagination to glorify His name in different ways according to the talents He has given us -which are all different.
As I said before, the actual message of the storyis good, but do you think that because of that all the other “bad things” canbe justified? Do you feel like society has been pressuring to be a certain way?Knowing this, would you keep being influenced by narrow-minded standards?
trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aXt6qV4WoAreview: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20620160,00.html
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