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Sex and City the movie made its much anticipated, illustrious premiere Friday night, May 30th, following an excruciatingly exhausting wait. Although just its “racy” title raises eyebrows for some, the show’s content has, in fact, little to do with sex and more about the power of friendship and life’s hurdles those bonds have the capacity of conquering.
With 41 different awards in four years under its belt, sadly, the show came to a heartbreaking end. With no hope for a movie to follow, due to contractual disputes, Sex fans hung their heads in defeat and dejection and were forced to move on and only hope a comparable show would take its place. It never happened. Although some may have found the OC, Lipstick Jungle, or the male version of our beloved show, Entourage, they only masked our wounds and served merely as a distraction from our pain and loss of the paramount hit series.
So, it came as no question to the fans when talk that the movie was (at last!) set to debut, that there was some serious homage to be paid, and it had to be celebrated appropriately!
Alas, when that somber, bittersweet, yet stimulating Friday night finally rolled around, 20 of my friends, and friends-of-friends, booked our tickets, our stretch Hummer with spinners and a section at a posh Beverly Hills lounge, and planned a celebratory evening of cosmos and the kind of unadulterated, fabulous exuberance that would do Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte proud.
In head-to-toe, eye-popping garb (and, of course, our mile-high strappy heels, tribute to Carrie) we attended Sex and the City’s opening night, along with pretty much every other female currently residing in the Los Angeles area.
The Arclight Theatre in Sherman Oaks was swamped with giddy, keyed up girls dressed to the nines. Although the typical girl-to-girl rapport in this city is generally known to be catty and competitive, one force united us that night, and if only for those two hours and 25 minutes, we were all best friends.
When we finally took our seats and the theatre lights dimmed, the most comfortingly familiar theme song in existence reverberated and brought us all back to the bond we had with the show and its authentic characters.
If I were a mother, this night would probably make it to the second most memorable times in my life, after the birth of my child. But, I’m not. So this tops my list.
I’ll get right to the point, All biases aside, looking at this movie from a completely objective point of view, the film still could not have been any better. I now know there was a reason for the painful, 6-year-long delay in production we all endured, because it takes that much time to get it right.
It’s obvious that Michael Patrick King and the cast took their time and used every drop of talent they had in their veins to make this movie as unforgettable, unpredictable and true to its roots as humanly possible. It was chock-full of the raw and tender emotion that it filled the theatre with tangible sentiment. The entire cast are gems in an industry that seems to have lost its persnickety reputation, giving way to reality “stars” and trashy dating shows. True talent and cinematic epics pass the scrupulous test when viewers can not possibly imagine the dialogue being a script, the emotions being acted or the location being a movie set. The story and the girls’ bond were stronger and more relatable than ever before, and the most important aspect of all: it didn’t deviate from the central theme of its storyline, which is that friendship conquers all and love is everything but logical, and the two are undeniably the most powerful kind of love there is.
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Posted by Senarae on 2008-05-31 23:38:52 | Rating: | Views: 47
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