Nancy Meyers
What Women Want

LA RECENSIONE

What Women Want, it's quickly said:

- Get married for a springboard from which
- Establish a social position
- Compete with (friends, partners, mothers-in-law, in short: someone)
- Misunderstand everything and dwell on details
- Love, love
- Seduce
- Petting (but not for too long)
- Fuck (but not right away)
- Fuck while doing crazy things (possibly, with an alibi like wine, cocaine, or something else)
- Be loved, desired
- Dialogue, thoroughly analyze things provided they have the last word
- Speak ill but when it happens
- Say, not say, possibly imply
- Read nonsense about fashion and gossip in general
- Slowly dominate their man without showing too much of it
- Have a child
- Dominate the man and the child, but without being fully aware of it
- Have a career while having a child
- Have a career, have a child, and travel
- Cook when they feel like it
- Not cook at all if they don't want to
- Leverage the other's guilt
- Not clean the house, rather delegate everything to the Filipina
- Spend their entire salary to pay for the Filipina
- Jewels, shoes, sexy lingerie, other... the important thing is to spend
- Buy nice clothes
- Get a nice hairstyle
- Eliminate cellulite
- Have different breasts than the ones they have
- Have a different ass/mouth/body part
- Have a personal bank account
- Have the husband's/partner’s credit card available
- Dream of a lover who he surely would know how to appreciate me
- Think one thing and immediately after do another, usually the opposite
- Do one thing while thinking of doing another...

All these things (and others I've left out, leaving it up to you to complete), of course in the film are not handled at all or very little, with superficiality and lightness, following the usual 4 stereotypes plastered on the handsome canned tuna face of Mel Gibson, here he's even a successful ad man, which is a real Calvary to watch (worse than his religious Pulp-movie!).

I wonder: but when will a woman arrive... one with the guts to direct a film about what WOMEN REALLY want, in their Deep Self, without too much rhetoric and theatrical goodness?!

If and when such a film arrives (which this is not it) I will definitely go to see it, also because, still today at the venerable age of 40 and more years, what women (in general) really want I still haven't figured out.
Have you?