The Women didn’t interest me as much as it did for other people, but since I went to the movies with other people who wanted to watch it, I decided to give it a shot.
The Women is a about woman’s relationship with her husband, her family, her friends and her personal life. Meg Ryan is Mary Haines, the wife of a Wall Street honcho who has sacrificed her career to give her husband and daughter the care they need. Annette Benning is her best friend, Sylvie Fowler, a hot-shot editor-in-chief of THE fashion magazine. The story starts when Sylvie finds out, from her manicurist, that Mary’s husband has been cheating on his wife. Together with their other friends, Edie (Debra Messing) and Alex (Jada Pinkett-Smith), they try to hide the truth from Mary. What follows is a story that will test the relationships between family, friends and their own personal lives.
This movie had nothing entertaining to offer me. Going right into the story never gave them a chance to establish and develop the characters of the movie, therefore never giving the viewers a chance to get to know them and have sympathy for them.
And I find it hard to believe that these totally different women even became friends in the first place. Meg Ryan plays a designer who was quite content letting others take the credit. Annette Benning plays a career-driven woman who doesn’t see the need for a family. Debra Messing plays a new age mom who is satisfied with building a bigger family. Jada Pinkett-Smith plays an artist who happens to be a lesbian. They may have had something in common when they met for the first time, but nothing was ever established to make sense of the fact that they are still friends.
Everything was just all over the place and never reached the destination. In fact, I don’t think it ever went on a journey. It jumped from one story to another, and it seemed like none of the stories were quite connected to the other. It was simply a forgettable movie. Keep that in mind if you do decide to watch this movie.
