Bridget Jones

by Fe2O3Girl 8 Replies latest social entertainment

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  Fe2O3Girl

  I have read the second Bridget Jones book - The Edge of Reason. Here is my list of things I find deeply annoying about the whole Bridget Jones thing.

  1) She lives in London. Of course, the United Kingdom does not exist outside of London.

  2) She, all her friends, all her family and all her friends' families, are all screamingly middle class.

  3) She is a media type, working in an office. I suppose media types who work in offices are incapable of writing about people who work in schools, shops, factories, laboratories or anything other than media types who work in an office, so Bridget had to be a media type who works in an office.

  4) She is cringingly lacking in any common sense.

  5) She perpetuates every cliche about women being incapable of functioning without a man to balance their chequebook, take them places, and hold their hand.

  I know it is not real, but apparently Bridget Jones is seen as some sort of heroine. But probably only by screamingly middle class media types in London.
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  under74

  I was annoyed without ever reading the book or seeing the damn movies. You just confirmed everything I had thought the Bridget Jones character was all about.
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  frenchbabyface

  Me too ... got the book (in English) ...never read it ...have seen the movie in a plane, it was just well a movie about a girl like you said !
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  Peppermint

  ?1) She lives in London. Of course, the United Kingdom does not exist outside of London.?
  
  What he world continues past the M25???
  
  Seriously though I hate Bridget Jones myself. But I think her character is designed for an American audience more then being based on reality.
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  JustTickledPink

  I thought it was adorable. Then again I'm American... hahhaa.. maybe it was for us.

  The best part is when Colin Firth tells her that he loves her "just the way she is"

  Why have the main character be perfect? Why not show her as desperate for love, wearing tight granny panties to look skinnier than she is? Why not show a character that spends some nights home alone dancing and drinking?

  I was single for years and did many of the same things, although I have to say I'm quite independant and wasn't desperate, but there are times when we all have cracked and felt lonely, especially around the holidays.

  It is just a movie... and the book, well it's NOT literature, it's a fluffy book you read on a plane or whatever.
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  Fe2O3Girl

  It is not the fact that she wanted to be loved that got up my nose, it was the way she needed someone to wipe her bum and take her into work to make sure she didn't get lost on the way. Her choice of undergarments has no bearing on my opinion. Large knickers are about the only thing that shows any common sense on her part.

  It is her London dwelling, ditsy, screamingly middle class, media type-ness that I find annoying.
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  Peppermint

  "It is her London dwelling, ditsy, screamingly middle class, media type-ness that I find annoying"
  
  Why?
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  Fe2O3Girl

  "It is her London dwelling, ditsy, screamingly middle class, media type-ness that I find annoying"
  
  Why?

  I think it must be because I am a raging Northern inverted snob......... Maybe everything else would be tolerable if she wasn't so STUPID.
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  Peppermint

  Fair enough.