The Women is one movie of a rare kind. It is for women acted full and full by women. It would steal the hearts of all women. Every woman would definitely relate to any particular character in the movie. The storyline and the characterization are handled very well.
It is basically about friendship interwoven with all emotions. Mary is the lead role in the film. Meg Ryan has lived as Mary. Her performance is simply flawless.
Story – There are 4 close friends – Mary, Sylvie, Alex and Edie. Mary, the heroine is a fashion designer, wife of a famous Wall Street stockbroker, Steven Haines. Sylvie is a fashion magazine editor. Alex is an essayist while Edie plays as a caring mom in her fifth pregnancy.
These 4 friends meet, greet, gossip and share their emotions. They have a long time friendship. Mary works as a fashion designer for her father as well as devotes herself to family, cooking, gardening and charity works.
Mary invites her friends for a benefit luncheon. On the way to Mary’s house, Sylvie gets her manicure done at Saks. While trying to keep her client entertained, the manicurist tells about an affair between the perfume salesgirl and a Wall Street big shot which happens to be Mary’s husband.
Sylvie gets really disturbed to know about this. She is confused with emotional conflict whether to tell or not to tell Mary about this affair. Finally she lets it out to Edie and eventually to Alex. Somehow Mary also comes to know about this through the same manicurist by a twist of events.
Mary seeks her mom for help. Her mom sounds very knowledgeable and practical. She advises to get away from Steven for a while and make him think Mary is doing something incredibly interesting without him. So she invites Mary and her daughter Molly to her cottage.
Mary decides to brush it under the carpet and act to Steven as if nothing happened. But it doesn’t take long for the situation to go out of hand and they part. Mary laments and starts hating herself. Sylvie also betrays Mary in a career threatening situation. Mary feels so lost…
The way she overcomes these choking hardships and comes out in flying colors is the rest of the story…..
Several scenes are handled very realistically in the film. The friends meeting the perfume girl in Saks, cat fight in the lingerie store, graphic illustration of window shopping, Mary’s dialogue while eating butter dipped in cocoa powder, one on one conversation between Sylvie and the little girl are noteworthy.
Some lines are catchy – “I want a Pill to make love go away!”,” I am the man I want to marry “,”Florists and manicurist know everything”.
Overall it was an emotional comedy drama. Thanks to Dove for sponsoring 2 movie tickets to “The Women”. Dove has sponsored a gift bag with beauty products to encourage our support for its noble cause.
The bag is in brown color. Brown is all moms’ favorite color. Whites attract dirt just like magnet, black is too common, bored of seeing pink all the time on daughters, green, yellow and orange are very seasonal, light colors invite stains…….So moms love brown.
Dove has understood moms’ choice well. The bag matches well with my favorite outfits.
I have added the new products to my already stocked up Dove beauties……
Thanks Dove.
