We were halfheartedly joking yesterday when we guessed that there would be a lot of tactless, racially-motivated humor in the Sex and the City movie, and we were pleasantly surprised when readers who had already seen the flick declared – however cattily – that we were way off base. Turns out those readers are shameful liars.
Anthony Lane's absolutely eviscerating New Yorker review of SATCTM reveals one rather glaring affront on the diversity that makes "the City" so damn great for those of us largely uninterested in its boutiques.
That plea gets second prize for the most revealing line in the film, the winner being Miranda’s outburst as she hunts for an apartment in a mainly Chinese district: “White guy with a baby! Let’s follow him.” So that’s what drives these people: Aryan real estate.
Yay! Stick together, white Americans! And shame on the race-mixers.
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You mean its not a coincidence that the only major black character in it is a assistant? Oh God. Hold me.
Am I the only woman in the entire world that doesn't want to see this contrived piece of shit?Yes? Well then Yay for Aryan real estate! I must fit in.
No, Emma, you're not alone. And in one spoiler scene I saw over on Jezebel some while back, SJP was talking to Hudson's character and of course while talking to a black woman you MUST throw in a obligatory head swurve and say: "giiiirl!" and "boo-tay call". Because black people can't understand honkey talk, naturally.
i don't want to see it. at all.
Even stories about this movie are mind-numbing.
dead on hadley poots. (i love the name, btw.)
lord knows, i only understand dem der crazee white folk unless every sentence is punctuated by "three snaps in a z formation" or an "around the world and back snap."
Speaking of Jezebel, Moe's sister wrote a great review on SATC here:
http://jezebel.com/5011954/wil.....-communist
I didn't even have to see it yet to know that I'll feel the same way she did about it being out of touch with over-privledged people.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going to see it. Tomorrow in fact. I'm not a huge fan but am going with some girlfriends. We're getting drunk first. Funny enough for this post, I'm going with one friend who is hispanic and three that are black. I think this shows the show was universal in a lot of ways, good girlfriends being the biggest. That said, there's no excuse for being so whitebread. And it's insulting to throw in a black assistant character and just stupid to have Carrie speaking to her with the "around the world and back snap." Anyway, I like the show, there's just not much substance.
I'm glad to hear Carrie doesn't marry Big. Her being with him is just the worst lesson. When someone likes you, they want to be with you. They don't back out of the relationship 10 times.
I always leave mess up something.
I meant: being out of touch and ABOUT over-privledged people
you blacks are straight up crazy!