Highly irrational, highly embarrassing, Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones is an embarrassment for spinsters everywhere, aside from being highly irrational, annoying and depressingly self conscious, her idea of being a spinster was as a last resort because everything else had failed for her up to a point.  Spinsters throughout history fight for women’s rights because it is what they believe in and it is a cause not a reactionary fall back because everything else had failed for them to that point, well at least as it is perceived in literature. I think this film acted nothing more than a crappy romantic comedy that, if anything, further instilled the idea that society is male dominated. Her entire life was dedicated to improving herself for a man, any man seemed to do, and she was disillusioned with the idea of love.  One point in the film that doesn’t make sense to me is the insanity of the mother. She is so obsessed with finding her 30-something daughter a man and then loses all sense to go on the road with a crazy infomercial creep and ditch the only fairly reasonable character in the film, the father. Perhaps she represents the old shell of feminism that persisted in the 60’s, it’s a shame if that is the case, because it’s a foul representation.  If anything, Bridget Jones needed more of a drinking problem; stopping seemed to be her problem, at least hammered karaoke is funny, which you can’t say for the rest of the film. 

For a film that shows a more accurate depiction of British spinsters, or at least fighting for women’s rights more than being a lunatic writing in a diary, check out ‘Made in Dagenham.’ It is a very fact driven film about a factory of women working for a Ford plant in England during the 60’s who fought for equal wages making a national craze. Here is the imdb.com site for the film, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371155/