Product: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Rating: 5.0
Americans And Their Labels
Action flick,chick flick,straight,gay,hippe-it seems American society is constructed on infantile name calling.This movie is typical in some ways-divorced lady leaves Friscofor Tuscony,buys and restores antique home and searches fora new love.But here's the important part-she doesn't 'get the guy'-and learns a lesson that I think is important;that happiness is within.Unfortunately people in this country,male and female,are becomming more and more emmotionally bankrupt.Inever HEARD terms like 'chick flick' until I was a teenager.Ithink it's sexist,ugly and VERY all-American-undercut the differences in people,in every possible way.Romantic comedies are usually the most obvious and clished form of film making there is-usually highly predictable plots and very shallow characters.But being based on a classic book there was already a script of sorts to work with.Worth whatching if not for the ending.And it's a well madefilm without alot of schmaltz and cutesiness.So I think thismovie will appeal to alot of different people,especially thosewho probably dream too much.If you need a little change aroundyou,being under the Tuscan sun might just be your kind of place!