Relationships

Whoever wrote SATC seems to have a really warped view of relationships, here are a few of the problems in my opinion.

Charlotte seems happy in her marriage but then when she gets a nanny she immediately gets all paranoid about her husbands fidelity. I wouldn't be overly keen about a braless nanny either, if it was see-through nipples poking you in the eye, but I would have a chat with her about wearing a bra or covering up not pretend its fine and then bitch about it later to my friends. At the end of the film of course there's a happy ending, but not because she's learnt to trust her husband, or gotten a little less insecure about the whole thing, but because it turns out the nanny is a lesbian. We're told that everything's fine her husband hasn't slept with the nanny, not because he's a faithful husband but because she's gay.

Carrie spent the entire TV series and a whole first film sorting out her relationship with Big and then marrying him and yet these people that have been together for years don't seem able to compromise. Carrie justifies staying at her old apartment (that they've kept for some reason) to get some space, but then is horrified when Big asks if he can do the same thing. And then when being bought a massive television and having a couple of takeaways just gets too hard she goes half way around the world and makes out with her ex because after her getting married, her ex getting married and having children, they ran into one another in a market place so the universe must be trying to tell her something.

Then we get to Samantha. If Samantha or any man, woman, animal etc. wants to sleep with somebody, as long as its consensual, that's fine, but for a film that flaunts itself as being a film about 'independent SINGLE women' they don't seem to be able to film women being single in any non-offensive way. They're either married or they're single and sleeping with everyone they see, they cant just be single and dating a few people, or single and not having sex or single and sleeps around but has a lot of other qualities too etc. Samantha is the only single one in this film and the fact that she sleeps around has basically become her entire character; for a movie about independent women the big message seems to be you're either a wife or a slut.

Miranda isn't that bad actually and in this film she's a lot less infuriating than she's occasionally been before, and given all the other problems in this film that's a compliment.