Bridget Jones and the Need to Fail
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20 years after her big-screen debut, Renée Zellweger’s heroine in Bridget Jones’s Diary remains one of our most relatable rom-com heroines, and yet it’s hard not to wonder whether this movie would even get made today. Bridget Jones is allowed to be a rom-com protagonist who feels shame and exhibits unhealthy behaviors or thoughts -- without being villainized, pathologized, or cured. By celebrating what’s so wrong about Bridget and allowing us to laugh at her, her story encourages us to laugh at ourselves, instead of trying so hard to be right all the time. Here’s our Take on Bridget Jones’s refreshingly clumsy approach to life, and how we can harness the power of failure in our own lives.
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Fail is a stupid word with an antonym.
I love how relatable Bridget is as a Heroine. She's insecure, constantly worries about her weight, and how much she drinks or smokes, and about being single, but that's why she feels so real, and holds up over 20 years later. ❣️
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or you can just enjoy the film with the Analysis made by marketing firms.
I actually rewatched Bridget Jones recently and some things struck me for being very sexist and outdated. Still fun though.
I see you EVERYWHERE, especially in cruel summer videos.
We have the same taste in media lol😂😂
She is a mess and is not a good role model for the young generation.
Her accent was great too, I didn't know she was American until a few years ago
omg shes american? O.O had no clue
Waaaahhhhttt she is American????? What are u talking about??? 😱😱😱😱😱
@@Gut985 she's southern 😭😭
You guys are kidding right 😂
@@katdeluxy9608 SHE'S A WHOLE TEXAN WOMAN 😩
I recently rewatched the first film and could not wrap my head around the fact that she saw herself as fat. She has the most amazing legs, arms and face. But then I remember my teen years and remember all the hate I had towards my body, how I did not eat properly, would miss breakfast, would skip lunch at school in the hopes to be like Misha Barton’s Marissa on the OC.... it took me 15 years to stop hating my body.
She wasn’t skinny, nor fat.She was more like normal with some extra weight.I really loved Cooper.But Mischa Barton was too skinny back than.
Recently I looked at my old photos and I was super skinny but I remember feeling soo fat. My weight was healthy and it fit my height but I never believed it. Now I've actually gained weight and I feel like such an idiot 🙃
@@whatever96 same! I was so skinny that I was underweight for most of my teenage years but I don't know why I never feelt fit enough.
Like Joan Holloway
I also remember the interviews with Renee that really went out of their way to emphasise how much weight she gained for the role. What she ate (heaps of doughnuts), and how hard it would be to lose all that weight again. To be fair, Renee was (is?) a very very slim person- but the focus of her interviews at the time were all on how she had to “become fat” to play the role.
It wasn’t just the world of the movie that told us she was fat. But I also look at Bridget and think she has a lovely body- still quite slim, but curvy. I also remember the ideal body at the time- it was extremely slim, with little to no curves. Kate Moss was still very popular. Someone else brought up Mischa Barton, and there was Paris Hilton. Those super tight hipster jeans only looked good on a very particular type of body.
I love how Renee actually gained weight for this role and embraced chubby Bridget and had choppy hair and casual clothes. Otherwise we see actresses being made to look dissatisfied with their weight while being thin, have gorgeous hair and dress well and say "ohh I am a mess".
Only I don't think they were chubby
@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 Yes, but relatively chubby enough for movies back then.
She enjoyed pizza and doughnuts on the set....the guys worked on those abs.
I was 25 when the first Bridget Jones film came out and I preferred Daniel Cleever. I’m now 46 and find Mark Darcy infinitely more attractive now. These films are great because it’s showed me how much I’ve changed over the years.
@TK Wallace absolutely!!!!
I saw this when i was like 13 and i loved mark and i'm 22 now and i still love him💜
How could you not love Mark Darcy (nanda I don’t mean you specifically)? That’s the true question.
Same, I was 6 when I first watched it, 26 now and I realised that Daniel is actually so toxic to Bridge, while Mark is noble. Thanks to popular psychology I guess.
“Bridget Jones. Already a legend.”
Truer words were never spoken.
"It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged That When Part Of Your Life Starts Going Okay, Another Falls Spectacularly To Pieces."
Brdget Jones's Diary
Yes, one of my favourite quotes from the franchise. It took me a while to realize that not only was the first story based off of "Pride and Prejudice", but the sequel borrows elements from "Persuasion", also by Austen. 📖💜
lol yea and the law of screenwriting too
Thought she said “falls spectacularly to shit”....I’ll have to watch it again tonite.
We still say “off to Bedfordshire”....
She is 5’6” and considered herself “fat” at 131 pounds. She obviously had the extra skin from rapid weight loss for Chicago surgically removed...the pinched look of her face in Bridget Jones 2.
Something similar appears in “devil wears Prada” by the genius Stanley Tucci
She's an absolute icon. In my country, I remember (male critics) review of the second and third movies went along the way of ridiculing her and asking how could women want to be represented by such mess in the screen. But she's so human. Seriously! the type of girl that is the secondary friend of the main character in other romantic comedy, but perhaps the realest one I've ever come across: still not having work figured out at 30, still getting drunk with friends, dreaming of the organic ideal man + marriage and babies while still not learning to accept herself, A REALISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS (how come this is so rare in romcoms?).
I love Bridget Jones.
I'm sorry, but Bridget Jones Baby is a horrible, horrible movie. I love the character and I loved the first two movies, but the third movie took all her flaws and blew them up to ridiculous proportions
@@tracyroweauthor in my opinion, the third movie is the funniest, and Bridget is very toxic in the second one
@@mishynaofficial it's funny if you like pie in the face comedy. I don't. it's a horrible movie and a waste of the talent of three fabulous actors.
I think Brittany runs a marathon was more about getting healthy- emotionally as well as physically. It’s not always about getting a thinner waistline. More about being healthy.
Especially in regards to the fat lady she insulted
Wait.... people can exercise because they *gasp* enjoy moving their bodies and/or want to be healthy :O :O That is the thing that I feel like is ridiculous. People can be intelligent and not get a PhD- but a PhD is a major achievement/commitment. People can be healthy and/or even athletic and not run a marathon. But a marathon is a major achievement/commitment. People can and should be able to celebrate achievements (if they aren't being a jerk about it- aka "I am superior to everyone") without having to feel apologetic about it.
which implies that being overweight means being unhealthy. There are many many people who are overweight who are very healthy and many many thin people who are not.
Running a marathon won't necessarily make you healthy, btw. Running is actually not all that great for your body.
@@tracyroweauthor in this movie, which is what I was talking about, Brittany is shown to be unhealthy. Not because of her weight, ( or a small portion), but because of her lifestyle. I know being thin doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is healthy.
The doctor in that film very explicitly lists her vitals (blood pressure, cholesterol) as signs of concern (and Brittany goes that doctor because she's trawling for Adderall, which he immediately notices), but Brittany fixates on her weight because she has low self-esteem. I think the film is incredibly body positive and we get to see her slowly but surely change her mindset about her body from what it looks like, to what it can do.
I love Bridget Jones. And the movies are just hilarious and yet super touching ❤️
I highly concur! Renee was the best choice to play Bridget as a character we all relate to, and her British accent was SO convincing, that it's surprising to learn that she's actually from Texas! 😅
The novels are so much better
So do I. I can relate to some of her clumsy approach to life.
Then , you might love the books. Written in true diary style wi th each month's is a new chapter.
As someone who spent life painfully insecure I related so much.
I love Bridget Jones, I watch the first and the second movie once every few months, I know all the lines by heart. She is the only heroine I saw as a teenager who was actually relatable rather than a skinny, pretty girl who they tried to make ugly by putting glasses on her.
Oh yes the famous glasses. When a top model becomes the ugly duckling by putting glasses on what does that make normal women?
Do you know any other characters like Bridget Jones because I'm tired of the glasses phenomenon? :)
We need body positivity AND acceptance when people want to change their bodies. Losing weight doesn't mean you don't love your body, and even thin people have "imperfections".
Absolutely! Self love also includes taking care of yourself.
Not gonna lie, i love Bridget Jones‘ flat /Appartement!
Yeah it was soooo cute and cosy.
It's hot real estate
@@BeGlamourlicious me toooooo
Me too!! It looks so cozy
If you haven’t danced to loungewear like Bridget Jones did in the beginning, you’re lying to yourself 😂
The Yeet boys from SNL?
I have
When I had my first big breakup characters like Bridget make it feel better to see how to get through by seeing someone who also hasn’t got it together do it.
Bridget Jones is an amazing movie. It's touching yet funny.
i have always felt very close to bridget jones. i think we all feel like her in different stages of our lives. hopefully one day i too will move onto my 3rd movie stage aka total acceptance of myself and my life. bridget joneses of the world, i love you and i love me!
Really beautiful words!
I turned 30 a few months ago, have gained much more weight the last few years than I'm happy with it, and broke up with my ex 2 years ago. I definitely identify very much with Bridget and hope just like you to find my "3rd movie" sooner rather than later.
In the meantime I may just rewatch the first movie for the millionth time 😉
"I will never be the one with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it, and chair committees, and write thank-you notes. And I can't feel bad about that."-Carrie Bradshaw
I love that she is a mess I would not defend her bad actions but I love that she is a messy adult because at 26, I'm a mess and never Imagined this will be my life, but that's life and I have hope because of messy imperfect stories.
@@LuuCaicedo Exactly. Yes Carrie fucks up a lot and does bad things, but she’s human and I feel like a lot of the people who trash her do it because they actually see themselves in her. They just don’t want to admit it.
Choosing between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as themselves is tougher than filing taxes. Don’t @ me.
So true. I loved them both in the movie haha
@@ruthlessxo99 You are a person of art and culture.
Bridget represent such an interesting journey of life. I was a massive fan of Renée before the first Bridget film came out and I just knew she would play her with so much humanity and would make her universally relatable.
Just realized Bridget Jones was the early 2000’s Fleabag and Hannah Horvart
It should be remembered that when Bridget Jones came out attitudes towards women's bodies were pretty toxic. People even then thought that Renee Zelleweger was a perfectly healthy size in that role, in fact, Colin Firth called out journalists for describing her as fat. The problem was that there was a fetishisation of thin bodies in the media at that time. Pretty much most articles in fashion magazines focused how to acquire the thin body of an underweight teenage girl. Plus, sometimes there was pressure from others in your peer group and family to get thinner, even if you fall within a perfectly healthy weight range. Personally, I felt like some people were trying to shame me for not disliking myself at a normal weight. So I think that the backlash against narratives mostly focusing on self hatred due to weight is because many women got tired being forced to listen to it constantly. Basically many women got sick of seeing thin women on screen or female characters who hated their weight; hence, the backlash now.
Yes I think we forget this the modern day of Lizzo and other women who are famous for not being aplogetic about their size. No hate to Lizzo, but it's just that people don't realize how much body shaming the culture back then involved!
Hell, even those of us who were alive then forget!
Pandemic lockdowns led me to bingeing watching The Nanny which was a favorite show of mine as a kid (I was the same age as the youngest daughter) and after watching it, I came to the conclusion that I'd never want my daughter to watch that show because there were so many bad messages in it about body shame and looks. Body image is something I still struggle with as a woman who is now Bridget Jones (in the first two films) age, and I'm not saying The Nanny caused it to happen. There were other factors involved such as bullying at school.
However, seeing The Nanny again brought back memories of how prevalent body shaming was in 90s and early 2000s media, and that I was very aware of it even as a young girl.
Bridget is so human! She's like most women, hostage of social beliefs about how women should be, and it's great seeing her learning to love herself e feel empowered after a long time of insecurities
I always thought those who never fail even once in their life become more susceptible to depression if they do fail in their later life. Or maybe I am giving shameless excuses to myself why failing is a good thing :D
Oh wait, that explains a lot in my life 😪
😜 I’m telling myself the same. Failure forms character..... or I’m just an idiot.
failure is just part of life. It's a sign you are actually out there trying things and taking risks. Doing so you are bound to fail from time to time. The important thing is to learn from it and move on.
As someone who is a reformed perfectionist I wish I had failed more as a kid. My SO and I as students were complete opposites and he honestly has a much much healthier outlook to life overall. I know think that we should celebrate C students over A students because C students figured out a way to balance having fun outside of school while doing fine in their school work. But if you had told me this when I was younger I never would have believed it because so much of my identity was wrapped in straight As and an ideal of perfection.
@@pigpjs same about the straight A's and pretty much evrything else. Like it didn't make sense to have the straight A's I didn't even like school. In my case I feel like my whole school life I played a role where I was the smart kid and lose oportunities of doing fun crazy stuff with friends.
To think man like Daniel really exist..and women keep associating with them.🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Hey, if they all look like Hugh Grant you can't blame them
@@Tom-eq7eh True😂✌🏻
@@Tom-eq7eh Yes but they still gotta be regarded like junk food: irresistible but best consumed in a minimum
people who thought 'insatiable' was promoting "thinness" was *not* paying attention.
This woman was and is a hero. Life is not for the weak.
I loved that Bridget doesn't like herself. Being insecure is so relatable.
Both Bridget Jones' Diary movies are one of the few that I can watch, thoroughly enjoy, then immediately start watching again and still love it. It was a classic when it was made and is still a classic all these years later. 🥰🤗
As a teen this was my favorite movie, by far (the sequel came in right after). Her struggles with body image, clumsiness and the utter feeling of always messing up felt so relatable to me-- back in times when main female characters didn't usually mess up like that, or reveal their insecurities like that. She felt real in an ocean of perfect, impossible white women (back then i didn't know about intersectionality).
This movie helped me during a time I had depression and I was insecure. Bridget is one of my favourite heroines since then.
Bridget is not even fat. Her weight is normal for her height. She is not thin, but she is in a healthy weight.
Yeah it’s messed up how society helps put extreme standards on everyone
Yeah, the idea behind that being that if you’re not perfect, you’re not any good anyways.
People put too much on weight when it doesn’t match up to muscle, fat or water weight all differ. You can be skinny and also fat by having a higher fat percentage overall. Additionally you can be very unhealthy and skinny/the reverse. Her unhealthy habits are what make her heavier here though.
Well, number 130 one thing, but her cheeks say something different.
She's actually even smaller in the book.
The entire idea of Bridget Jones "weight struggles" is that they're in her head because she was raised in a society and time period (she's a Gen Xer) when a woman's worth was even more defined by thinness than younger generations like mine or the Zoomers of today.
Saying a girl like Bridget is fat is just wrong. That downplays those with real weight issues. She is the shape a healthy woman should be.
Well she is different from the typical, skinny, attractive heroine that we're so used to seeing.
Maybe it just shows how much society is putting pressure over women, till the point even healthy women think they are too fat :/
Seconded. I love that Bridget is an average weight. She's not super skinny like typical female protagonists in rom coms, but still gorgeous and attractive, though she compares herself to her slimmer friends or acquaintances.
You're missing the point, though.
She's not actually fat, but even so, she's insecure about her body because of the virtue that the society she was rasied in (remember she was a kid in the 70s and 80s) placed on thinness.
I love Bridget Jones because she isn't perfect and she has many insecurities and yet she pushes onward. She's perfectly average and relatable and I will be rewatching all of the Bridget Jones's for years to come
It definitely wouldn't get made today... and I don't love the movie but I loved this analysis. It is true, I feel like body positivity has been viewed by many as a curing insecurity rather than combating fatphobia or allowing and championing steady self-acceptance. It's really a spectrum with lots of gray. You don't always feel your best all the time but you try to when you can. When you decide to love yourself more, it's not like an avalanche of optimism and confidence hits you instantly. Real lasting love in any form, including that of oneself, happens slowly and is maintained rigorously and with fault. Falling in love with yourself is a process that takes time as well as trial and error.
I think its more to do with just being yourself and the lesson being that you will find success that way rather than being happy to make mistakes.
I’ve always loved this character over the years.
I see this as experiences from failure make us better, this obviously comes with age, that's a good lesson- that age is not a liability.
Having just watched the movie recently again, I actually hoped for you guys to do an essay on it. Awesome timing!
I feel like this video could have really used a discussion of fatphobia, age, and the abjection of "fatness," age, and how fatness and a fear of ageing (which in turn is tied to "ugliness") do position you outside of the politics of desirability (which are all central to the film series premises too). In the end this series really wasn't all that different from the typical - she still fulfills the hegemonic ideals of middle-class womanhood and wins in the end.
I wish I could like this more than one time
It's why it never gelled for me. Power to all the commenters who felt connection to Bridget. I share none of her life goals and few of her interests 🤷🏾♀️. Being starkly real is something to be commended.
Well I think to judge this film we need to consider the time in which it was made. If we are honest Bridget has a perfect and normal body type (because every body is perfect) but she is a grown up woman living in the beggining of the 2000's in which to be consider "beautiful" you needed to very very thin (and she reinforced this idea in all the media she had in that time:movies, series, magazines...) . All of the insecurities of Bridget are related with all the things that were expected for women on those times, for example her fear of aging was related to the idea she would never be able to get married or start a family because men would not want an older women. At the end, all her insecurities are the one who are holding her back, and thats the reason why her relationship with Mark Darcy did not work at beggining of the second movie. Because in her mind she would never be "pretty" enough to be with him and in her mind he would prefer a woman with the canonical perfect body of that time. Her insecurities made her not realise that Rebeca "the perfect girl" was not in love with Mark but in love with her, becuase she thought Bridget was the most amazing person she had ever met. So there is not a single problem with Bridget, she is funny and beautiful, she is just being so hard on herself. Ofc the movie has problematic topics (as every movie or series of the 2000's has in comparison to the things we know right now for example the lack of diversity and more) but at the same time, this movie was very progressive for that time. Bridget was not the typical protagonist of a rom-com is super model with glasses (to make her look "ugly" ) that receive a glow up during the movie and her her life get better because she become "beautiful", she also was a very flaw character that make her very related to many people. At the end of the day are a lot of things of the movie are outdated but other things still are very relatable until today for example the pressure of the beauty standards women face and how we all have insecurities that are the one which are holding us back.
I can’t really say that I relate with Bridget but I feel that her character is so real and refreshing.And the movie with some of the very best English actors is superb.Even Bridget Jones:The edge of Reason was decent and I really loved Bridget Jones's Baby.👌🏻💕
I was thinking about Bridget today. I felt more lost than usual with my life, then I thought about Bridget and how it's okay not to figure everything out. Some days I get impatient and want everything the way I want them.
I have never seen the third film but I did read the third book which is completely different. In the book she is a widow with two kids after Mark Darcy died and it was bit more heavy in tone I'm some places as she tires to find her place after losing her great love.
Her dad had died too - I was like 'nooo!'
I really liked the third book and would have liked to have seen it as a film. Of course I'm sure they didn't want to use it cause Mark is dead and what is a Bridget Jones film without Colin Firth? Haha
Please tell me she allows herself to love again. Even if it's not an equally great love.
@@maheenm.k1015 Haha she does!
I just think it's funny how the question about that guys family choices is "super inappropriate" when women have to deal with that question anytime they get interviewed
Self acceptance is a painful struggle, it feels like surrender. But by persevering through this pain one becomes empowered and serene. Taking a shortcut to empowerment by skipping the pain and the struggle is avoidance. It will backfire. It's like covering an open wound with makeup, it will make it worse.
The world demands perfection but if the cost of being ‘perfect’ is eternal dissatisfaction, what do I learn? I’m learning to embrace mistakes and just trying to have fun once in a while.
Thank you for that.Screw what others say.The problem is when you are the one that thinks that way.🤔
I think it's important to react to your own inevitable big and small mistakes by treating yourself with kindness like a stern but loving parent would treat their child. Like don't give yourself verbal and mental lashings because spilled milk is still spilled even if you punish yourself. Ask yourself if your internal dialog is critical (so much that you'd direct it at others without feeling guilty) or just mean (mean enough that you'd never say it to another person even to criticize them)
this is and remains my go-to movie when I feel heartbroken
"Failing upwards"
What a concept. You really can be with someone yet live in completely different worlds.
I'm so happy I watched it! This movie (and the books) really helped me to deal with personal insecurities
Renee is a genius actress, always compelling.
This was a breath of fresh air.
I read the original book before the movies came out. Believe me, she was a revolution. Every book heroine I'd read up until then was perfect and boring. She changed the game for the better - so much better!
Don't worry, the film would be made today. It's a British film. British comedy embraces failure in the same way US comedy embraces only success
I can't believe that the first bridget Jones movie came out 20 years ago I was 11 years old I loved it and still do I loved that fight scene so funny 🤩😍😘🥰😻
I don't agree that the movie especially the fisrt one is out of fashion. It's still relatable af today!
I am in love with Colin Firth. That is all.
I feel like this has missed the mark. This isn't about "the power of failure", this is about not just accepting flaws but LIKING them. Actually liking them. Mark doesn't want Bridget to change herself, he likes her how she is. Granted, these two don't seem to have anything in common other than attraction and stumbling through life trying to figure out what they want whilst finding happiness, but it's about abandoning all the trivial crap like worrying about appearances and prioritising our loved ones and allowing our self-respect to grow rather than stifled by societies' bullying.
I think the *aim* is body neutrality, or body positivity. But unless we acknowledge that that isn't how most people feel, I don't think we stand much of a chance.
Thank you so much for Bridget's content. Please, i beg of you to give us some more.
This was lovely!!! I really needed this.
That's why I love Bridget so much. It's hard to accept imperfection
3:37 Oh, I didn't realize before that Colin Firth plays the heroine's ideal match "Mr Darcy" in both Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones' Diary. Was this casting intentional? Is the BJD character named after the BJD character?
In the book the character Bridget has a huge crush on the actor Colin Firth from his role in Pride and Prejudice and she talks about him quite a bit and rewatches the scene in Pride and Prejudice where he dives into the water continuously , she even gets to interview him. So when they were casting for Mark Darcy it had to be Colin Firth because the book Bridget loves him so much and it's a wink to the audience.
You really think it was accidental?
Also shout out to Perpetua, who is bigger than Bridget and not as conventionally pretty but was a Shonda Rhimes Boss Lady before Grey's Anatomy.
I'm 32, overweight and I work in publishing. Still waiting for my Mark Darcy, though...
Definetily my favourite movie! Love this point of view!
I absolutely loved this movie when i first watched it and it gave me hope that it will be okay even if you're not picture perfect. It's okay to be just yourself.
Look at me being all early to this video, skipping online class 💀
I adore Bridget! I was a kid when I started watching the movies and for better or worse, Bridget had a bag influence in my life.
This was a wonderful discussion of a great series. 💜
You dont need to be worthy to deserve love.
Thank you. I sometimes want people to realise that while want body positivity, we also struggle to build it.even if no one comments on us
This is exactly what my dissertation is about. Pride and prej vs Bridget jones.
I've never clicked on a youtube notification so fast 😅🤣
Finally, a videoanalisis of my beloved Bridget Jones. ❤️❤️❤️
Give another take of Bridget! I loved this video.
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
Bridget has alcohol and cigarettes
I have my mangas and movies I binge until my mind goes numb
Great video. Better narrator's voice than usual
Did Bridget say she was 130 pounds? I weight that now and I don't think I'm fat, just not skinny.
My very first DVD....my only one I owned then. Know this movie by heart.
We should laugh at ourselves but there is something obnoxious about a person who laughs away all of their flaws instead of successfully addressing them. I don't want to live in a society that rewards failure-that would encourage more failure.
I was shocked they didn't address Brigitte's privileges in being able to fail and thrive.
If you want an alternative to Bridget Jones were the flawed heroine does address her issues and works on improving herself from the inside, I recommend Queenie
I love her so much!
I don't get why representation is very important. I am completely okay with others expressing why it is important, but I don't get the point. I am an Indian and... I DO feel happy when indians get representated, but I don't care if they don't. Each culture has its own country, and its own cinema, so why would anyone want representation, when they can just see movies of their culture ?
"If you can't see it, you can't become it." That is why representation is important. Not only does it represent the factual and material existence of all the audience, it also defeats bigotry and stereotyping. Culturally, societies are hierarchical, and tend to let recognition and resources go to to those at the top, whilst ignoring the needs and value of those below them. This reinforces inequalities and prejudices about others, and gives those at the top that those below them are unimportant. Representation defeats that. It defeats sexism, racism, and other bigotries that inhibit equality and equity in societies. It defeats the marginalisation of minorities, and builds better societies.
@@BigHenFor You're describing social engineering. That's not what art should be; it's propaganda you happen to agree with.
That's why I watch foreign films more than American films with their contrived diversity.
If you are indian you would feel differently than an indian american ot british indian.....obviously
People need to see people who look like them positively in the media.
Toxic takeaway: you can get everything you want if you put more effort
bridget jones in the second movie: mark’s cheating on me with that woman!
the woman in question: actually, i want YOU but ok
People used to say I looked like Bridget Jones. Not Renee, the character Bridget jones.
I think I can take that as a compliment now.
Favourite film ever, also favourite book. Have read it so many times. 😍
But did she really failed?
I mean, she was never really fat, had a great job and two guys who were chasing after her in fairy tale style.
Sorry, I probably just never understood the hype around the film ^^''.
Maybe not in that regard, but definitely embarassed herself more than enough wtih everyday failures. I relate hard.
That is what I am trying to say that she is privileged in many ways
I think the point of it was a women of her weight and appearance getting to be "that girl" by chance instead of a women that looks like a flawless supermodel.
Love Bridget, just as she is.
I just want to be Bridget
Can you do The orgin of gen z
Lol the last part😂 priceless
Can we just take a second to aknowledge that those movies tried to make us believe Renée Zellweger was fat in these movies? Seriously?
I'm where Bridget is now sans baby and to be honest it just feels like is. So her anxieties are hard for me to connect to. I respect anyone who gained a lot from those movies. I felt seperate from them.
Bridget Jones and her perception shows how demanding are we from women and female charactors. She had a job in publishing, later on in the television, she was able to live on her own in what seems to be the centre of London. Yet she was seen as a loser just because she was 32, not skinny and without a man.
Thanx
I love this movie so much 😭 I watch it every year
Never clicked so fast. I love this