It’s the month of February, which I personally find amusing because of the singular theme flying around and how it just soaks up the month in its entirety – Love. However, the Cine TV community will not be left out as there would be nearly an overdose of brilliant love-themed movies. Nearly. We’re starting this month with a production that is not entirely love-themed but one I happened to see last night after seeing it previously more than a decade ago.
Legally Blonde (2001)
Elle Woods is a Fashion Merchandise major and a sorority sister. She’s dating Warner Huntington III and is expecting him to propose to her the night he takes her on a local restaurant date. Much to her disbelief, Warner ends up breaking up with her, stating categorically that with his aspirations of becoming senator, Elle lacks the seriousness needed for that kind of life. Elle reasons that if she achieves the things Warner is also achieving, he will find her worthy enough. She studies for months and gets 179 on her LSATs. Coupled with her CGPA of 4.0, she gets admitted into Havard Law School.
She immediately learns that her Law student contemporaries are quite different from her and she may just be a fish out of water in her new environment and to her spiteful East Coast contemporaries. With Warner now engaged to Vivian Kensington and still looking down on her even though she got into Law School, Elle realizes that she must prove herself against all odds.
Yeah, as you may have realized even from the summary, this film is as sexist as they come, and frankly quite annoying. But I was able to cut it some slack because it’s 2001 and we were still in that era where scriptwriters and Directors could get away with that kind of stuff. Yeah, the entire movie was dedicated to proving to a guy that if she got serious, maybe he would want her. The ending didn’t help matters giving the women happy endings that revolved around being proposed to and getting married. But I still cut it some slack because why not? That was then, right?
I did learn something from Legally Blonde, contrary to what most people may be thinking, and that is Confidence. Elle was unapologetically confident. I mean showing up to your Law school party in a pink-bunny costume (that has a fluffy tail) while others are wearing corporate, and still standing tall doesn’t seem possible to me at all, at least not by me. So, I loved her ability to remain seemingly oblivious to spiteful words and gossip as soon as she entered a room. Which is what I feel everyone should learn.
I’m not exactly a fan of Reese Witherspoon’s acting. When she was younger and even now when she’s older. I’m not sure why but that has always been the case, but she did deliver this rather bleak plot as impeccably as possible, and for that, she has her flowers. As I said in the beginning, this is not a love-themed film, rather it is one to open the floodgates to good ones that we’ve seen over the years. So, film suggestions that you may want us to talk about are welcome in the comments. Have a lovely February!
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