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Tuesday, 04 December 2007

Knocked Up gets knocked around

I just read this quote from Katherine Heigl about "Knocked Up":

It was a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. ... Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.

and it made me sad. We just rewatched this movie over the weekend with Heather, who hadn't seen it before and I think it's really funny and sweet.

I don't think it paints the women as shrews - I think the women in the movie are somewhat intolerant of crazily immature behavior like farting in each other's faces for instance, but I hardly think that makes them shrews.

Also, I really think in general people do too much "interpreting" of movies - apparently even the actors in them. It's just a story about a few people. It doesn't have to represent all of humanity. If the guys in the movie are goofy, it doesn't mean all guys are goofy. I don't really think the guys in this movie are supposed to represent the average American guy either - the group of friends living in a trashy house supposedly working on an internet startup for years, smoking pot constantly, etc. I don't know any guys like this myself. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

I just think it's a silly comment and it made me sad because I like that movie a lot and I think it got too much flack for dumb reasons. (Another of which is supposedly that it has a strong pro-life message... why, because the woman who gets pregnant doesn't have an abortion? Is every pregnant woman who has a baby now anti-choice?) Come on people. For Pete's sake, it's just a funny movie. Enjoy it.

Posted: Dec 04, 2007 09:44

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