2006.06.03 What Women Want

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Review on “What Women Want”

Are men really from Mars while women really from Venus? The movie got into this long-existed issue between men and women in a really interesting and entertaining way.

Nick Marshall, played by Mel Gibson, was surrounded by show girls in Las Vegas when he was a kid. Paying respect to women and being considerately are not what he was taught, and thus caused him a lot of problems in his adulthood. His ex-wife complaining about his personality at the beginning was the best proof. One day, he was given a special gift to speak Venutain! Terrified at first, but he soon started to abuse this talent on dating girls and stealing ideas from his boss. His boss, Darcy Maguire, played by Helen Hunt, appeared to be a tough woman and a men-eater. After a while, Nick gradually realized that he had long been ignoring feelings of women around him, his worker, his female colleagues, his daughter, and his boss, Darcy.

Falling in love with Darcy waked him up; he decided to stop cheating on work and tell Darcy the truth. Just this critical moment, a lack-of-attention girl lost connection accidentally and his daughter was hurt in the prom counting on him to comfort. What’s worse, a thunder almost stroked him and he lost his power. He’s all on his own now!

This movie to me is a little too feminine, especially the last part when Nick confessed to Darcy and won a happily-ever-after ending. Except for that, it was quite a reflecting movie. People often lie to others or pretending them selves instead of telling and showing their true feelings. Therefore, it becomes common that we make most of our efforts guessing the true meanings behind the words even when having a daily dialogue with others. When it’s in the situation between genders, women usually think that men are arrogant, lack of patience and concentration on listening to women’s words, like to interrupt and give their own opinion, and then jump to their own conclusion. On the contrary, men think that women change with no reason, ponder on anything but just can’t make decision, and often say the opposite of what they really think. Consequently, the gap between men and women becomes larger and larger since they both eager to be understood but forgot to listen. That was the major cause of quarrels between me and my girl friend. We went through the issue a thousand times and we still don’t know how to cross these gaps. Perhaps a mind-reading talent is the only way out!

Women and men are really form different planet. When they are jammed on this small earth, they fight like children! And that’s what makes this world so lively! Maybe someday a movie about a woman reading men’s mind would be made. That’s what I meant about “lively!”