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Bridget jones diary… what are ur thoughts????

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Emblue1981 · 13/01/2022 19:38

So over Christmas I watched Bridget Jones for the first time.. yes I know, where have I been for the past 20 years.

Anyway, all my friends love the book/ films so I decided to give it a go and can’t believe how disappointed I was. In summary she’s sexually harassed at her work place (Hugh Grant character) which subsequently leads to her leaving her job, she's portrayed as stupid ( political scenes) fat shamed ( she weighs 9 and a half stone for goodness sake !) not to mention the creepy uncle who continuously makes sexual comments to Bridget.

In 2022 do people still really like this movie or is it more a case that, it had its place at the time but let’s move on???

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Gardeniafleur · 13/01/2022 19:49

As a feminist, I think it is a work of comic brilliance, and because it was written by a woman, and is about women’s lives, it was and is massively critically underrated as ‘just’ ‘chick lit’.

Also everyone always forgets that it came on the back of a generation of shoulder paddy blockbusters of women being/doing/having it all a la Barbara Taylor Bradford and Jackie Collins etc, so was a refreshing change to all of that, that women could just go to work and go to the bar and hang out with their mates. Like men did.

Highly commended comedy runner up: The Undomestic Goddess.

Mrsbloodypurchase · 13/01/2022 19:46

It was always awful

NumberTheory · 13/01/2022 19:44

It had its place at the time. It was a comedy that has aged poorly. I think a lot of the experiences still happen (women still get harrassed, fat shamed, etc) but the way women handle it nowadays and the internal monologue that made so many women identify with Bridget has changed, so it all feels a bit alien now.

Charliesgotachocolatefactory · 13/01/2022 19:43

It’s of it’s time.

I watched Pretty in Pink with my teen the other day and while I remember it fondly, many elements of it do not stand up to today’s thinking. She was agog and I was cringing!

Its just life I think - constant progression.

(Let’s not even start on Pretty Woman!!)