Objectification of women

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2016)

If you like movies that completely objectify women, this is THE movie for you. There is only one strong and confident woman in the entire movie (Emmma Thompson) and she's is punished harshly for it. All the other women are subservient to the men who treat them as objects and they get their men. (I suppose arguably Laura Linney's character doesn't let the new man in her life control her, but actually she allows an existing man in her life do so. I appreciate her love and loyalty to family, but, once again, a woman subservient to a fault.) If you watch this movie with the artificial world view that women are merely objects for men, then it is 10 stars. Watching it with the reality that they are much more valuable than that leaves me giving it 3 stars. I cannot recommend this movie. And it saddens me that people think of this as a Christmas movie. Open your eyes, people! (Written by a man.)