Product: What Women Want [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Several real important moments in this comedy
Did you ever take time to think of the way you think? I believe that I think clearly, that is, in real sentences and coherent sequence of thoughts only rarely, and only when I am alone - driving or walking outside. Even then my mind jumps from one association to another like crazy. I don't think I even bother to always verbalize my thoughts, I do it only when I think about what I am going to say to someone. My thoughts are even harder to categorize when I am in the middle of a conversation with another person. I do not have coherent thoughts coming in long clear sentences but something which is more like images, notes I make to myself about the other person, short words. I am therefore quite sure that my mind, or other people's mind for that matter, does not act in the way presented in the movie but is more like a disorganized sack with lots of items inside, most of them irrelevant to the subject matter...That is, the main idea of the movie seems a little wrong to me. However, this very long preface only leads to what I really want to say: I understand that this movie has several flaws, amongst which the way "thinking" (a central theme in the movie) is presented, but in spite of this and other flaws and the light easy nature of the movie, it is very entertaining and is able to touch, several quite serious subjects. My best part actually is when the male character, played by Mel Gibson talks about what he learned about women. "They worry all the time...", he says, and this sentence alone is worth watching the movie. Oh so true and such a real (very satisfying) moment.Story is a little banal with all the right elements falling down at the right moment with our hero learning his lesson and being at the right place to save the day -- however men women relationship at the workplace are very nicely presented, all stereotypes included (I loved the moment when Mel Gibson looks at his two secretaries and asks "that's all"? after he gets no reaction from their brain.Bette Midler is hilarious in a small psychologist part that does justice to her comic abilities.