First off let me say that I do appreciate what this film/blog has done for women. There is no reason that a woman past her 20's should be shuffled off into some sort of cri-cut scrapbooking/ pie making closet to live out her days.
That said, I did NOT enjoy this.
Some of the women seemed to be doing it genuinely, but some I felt were trying to hard to fight against the very thing they were preaching didn't matter. Somethings felt desperate and scared and it made me uneasy.
Ari Cohen himself comes off as creepy and clingy with the opening scenes of him chasing down ladies to give them all the same rehearsed opening line, and then the obsessive rants about his grandmothers being his best friends...
Really, it is probably the way that it is edited that is making me dislike the film, because the blog is great and these women are inspiring.
I don't know any of them personally so context is key...
Thing is, especially in "fashion", there is so much FALSEness going on that upsets me. When the one who owns the shop starts mercilessly insulting a customer for wearing a bag across her chest- who is that helping? It isn't 'fun and frivolous' to be mean because you feel insecure and are overcompensating.
Also I don't really enjoy people being fake nice at parties, or feeling the need to boast how great they are. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is an authority on style because style is a human concept. It is an idea that can mean anything to anyone. You can appreciate or disagree with other people's ideas, but you can't tell them that they are wrong because there is no such thing.
As a woman, I didn't feel better about aging after watching this, but I am not the best demographic or target for it. I found it to be grasping, depressing, and forced- much like life itself.
First off let me say that I do appreciate what this film/blog has done for women. There is no reason that a woman past her 20's should be shuffled off into some sort of cri-cut scrapbooking/ pie making closet to live out her days.
That said, I did NOT enjoy this.
Some of the women seemed to be doing it genuinely, but some I felt were trying to hard to fight against the very thing they were preaching didn't matter. Somethings felt desperate and scared and it made me uneasy.
Ari Cohen himself comes off as creepy and clingy with the opening scenes of him chasing down ladies to give them all the same rehearsed opening line, and then the obsessive rants about his grandmothers being his best friends...
Really, it is probably the way that it is edited that is making me dislike the film, because the blog is great and these women are inspiring.
I don't know any of them personally so context is key...
Thing is, especially in "fashion", there is so much FALSEness going on that upsets me. When the one who owns the shop starts mercilessly insulting a customer for wearing a bag across her chest- who is that helping? It isn't 'fun and frivolous' to be mean because you feel insecure and are overcompensating.
Also I don't really enjoy people being fake nice at parties, or feeling the need to boast how great they are. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is an authority on style because style is a human concept. It is an idea that can mean anything to anyone. You can appreciate or disagree with other people's ideas, but you can't tell them that they are wrong because there is no such thing.
As a woman, I didn't feel better about aging after watching this, but I am not the best demographic or target for it. I found it to be grasping, depressing, and forced- much like life itself.
