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(Do not read if you haven’t seen the movie and do want to know the plot.)

Before going to see this movie I heard that it got bad reviews in the press. But whatever… that usually doesn’t prevent me from going to movies I wanna see. Although just this week I was disappointed once already by Indiana Jones. Anyway, I was looking forward to seeing this so I went.

I thought the movie showed a lot of believable human emotions — in part because of the story and in part because of the good acting job. I was especially moved by the scene when Carrie left the library and ran into Mr. Big on the street, instead of kiss and make up, she hit him with the flowers in her hand and with a lot of rage. It was interesting that she yelled out “You humiliated me” instead of something like “How could you do this to me?” or “You hurt me.” Perhaps the writers were hinting something about Carrie’s character. That being humiliated was somehow more devastating to her than anything else.

Anyway, in general I thought the movie was good. The story moved quickly and was generally very engaging. But of course, I was also upset by the big happy ending when all was said and done. That was the one thing I didn’t like Hollywood movies! I like my movies to be realistic unless it’s clearly a Sci-Fi or fantasy movie. In life we don’t often get happy endings like in the movie. That in the end Carrie and Mr. Big still got married just ruined the movie for me.

Oh well…