A cautionary tale
May. 19th, 2014 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susie_floI watched a film on TV the other day without bothering to check the IMDB score first. Let my error be a lesson to you all.
It's called Motherhood, and stars Uma Thurman as a woman living in Manhattan, with two apartments and two kids attending school & daycare. One of the apartments is used exclusively for typing blog posts and is hence known as a "studio".
The crux of the film is that she's having a really stressful day because she loses her parking space and has to go out and buy balloons and party bags for her older child's birthday party and it really gets in the way of blogging and attending designer sample sales with Minnie Driver. And people are mean to her in the party shop queue. And, to top it all off, the baker spells her kid's name wrong on the cake and her husband tells her that her latest blog post is a bit weak.
Nobody (apart from a flirty delivery man) seems to understand that she is bohemian and a writer and not part of the "mom" system like everyone else. So she decides to run away and abandon her family... but it turns out that everything is ok after all, because her feckless husband has found a first edition book lying in the street which he has sold for $24k so now they have enough money to send the kids to even more daycare and she can blog all day long!
(It's possible it's meant to be a comedy, but I can't be entirely sure.)
It's called Motherhood, and stars Uma Thurman as a woman living in Manhattan, with two apartments and two kids attending school & daycare. One of the apartments is used exclusively for typing blog posts and is hence known as a "studio".
The crux of the film is that she's having a really stressful day because she loses her parking space and has to go out and buy balloons and party bags for her older child's birthday party and it really gets in the way of blogging and attending designer sample sales with Minnie Driver. And people are mean to her in the party shop queue. And, to top it all off, the baker spells her kid's name wrong on the cake and her husband tells her that her latest blog post is a bit weak.
Nobody (apart from a flirty delivery man) seems to understand that she is bohemian and a writer and not part of the "mom" system like everyone else. So she decides to run away and abandon her family... but it turns out that everything is ok after all, because her feckless husband has found a first edition book lying in the street which he has sold for $24k so now they have enough money to send the kids to even more daycare and she can blog all day long!
(It's possible it's meant to be a comedy, but I can't be entirely sure.)
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Date: 2014-05-19 04:09 pm (UTC)I often have moments of 'did I watch the same film as everyone else?' though when people are raving about things and I'm sitting there thinking watching paint dry would be more fun.
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Date: 2014-05-21 02:49 pm (UTC)