What DO women want?
Hell, I am a man and I don’t know if I know the answer to that question. It seems to me, that would be different for each woman, for recognition for individuality is a prominent want, in my honest opinion.
I really wanted to see this movie for I thought the plot was one which was very clever and definitely original. It is original I believe for hollywood’s silverscreen; however the title of the film is one that has plaqued women and men for eons.
The movie begins with Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson), the typical ladies man. The man who believes that most woman melt inside, at the mere whisper of his words or glance from his eyes. While he may be the type of man in which woman might take a second peek at, he definitely shatters any of a womans’ Adonis fantasies the moment he opens his mouth. His vocabulary is littered with ’’babe’’ and other sexist comments that cause most woman to cringe.
Nick is in advertising and is sure that he will be promoted by his boss (Alda), but conflicts arise when he learns the new coordinator position will be filled by a woman (Helen Hunt).
Marshall is ultimately brought to the point where he is striving to think like a woman, when a freak accident somehow changes his brain into a receiver. The only signals Gibson’s character picks up are thoughts, unspoken thoughts, of women.
What is a woman? In one word it would be easy; confusion. At least we men know that one. The director Meyers really did well in conveying some of the myths that men tote around in their heads. How many times have you in your lifetime heard a man boasting about the size of his penis or spewing macho behavior as if it were the most appealing the thing in the world?
Do they really believe that women are that basic? Well guys hears a newsflash we do not want that gobbledygook. We could care less if when you have the biggest unit or if you can pee farther than your peers.
Men who try so hard to show the world that they can open a beer, cook a steak on the grill, and completely dismantle the engine of a Gto all at the same time and brag about it are probably the same type of men who are so afraid of women. It is ridiculous.
Take your ’’babe’’ and your ’’chick’’ and your ’’old lady’’ terms elsewhere. Good hidden message and was received loud and clear by me, from this light hearted comedy. I am sure that what was so obvious to me will be overlooked by the ’’Marshalls’’ of the world.
Marissa Tormei’s character, in this film , was a woman who all of us, in the female species can relate to at same level or another. Some more than others, can find themselves in this girl who is pursued by Marshall(Gibson) secretly lusting after him but showing him that she was immune to his charms. Inside the rough exterior lived a girl who was hurt time after time and was finally tired of even trying to make connections. Ahhhhh, The safety mechanism!
All surfaces of man and woman interaction was dealt with on level except jealousy. Surely a man which believed he were king on the outside and screamed fool on the inside definitely would have some jealousy issues, which easily could have been thrown in the mix even once. Men who carry the macho facade definitely always seem to have issues with jealousy.
The cast and crew undoubtedly did a good job with this piece. I am sure you know when you go into it that you are not going to be viewing a highly intellectual piece but it is not fluff either...
Lying somewhere between a tender romance and a fluffy teen flick lies ’’What Woman Want’’.
And what do women want? The closest answer I could come to is ...
Keep it real and break the mask. Listen. Speak. Leave your ornamental shell at the door and conquer your fear. Let them in..., Walk beside them, Honesty.
Does that solve the question of What women want? Absolutely not.
For each woman is different. Go out find one or look at the woman who chooses to be with you already, and ask not what every woman wants, instead ask What does YOUR woman want....
Its all you can do.
Or just say to yourself ’’What does she know, she is only a woman!’’
Its your choice, and your life.
You decide.