1) Tibby
2) Bridget
3) Carmen
4) Lena
They were all wonderful, but Tibby's was the most touching. I bawled like a baby. Her character was also very down to earth and believable. I loved the whole aspect of her storyline and found everyone in it very genuine and likable, especially Bailey. Bridget was probably my favorite character of the four though.
Her story is my second favorite because it clicked with my life the most. I lost my virginity at a very young age, I'm flirtatious and I fell in love with a guy who was off limits. My mother's still alive though. It was handled really well like Tibby's and Carmen's too, which brings me to Carmen.
Her's was very upsetting also, I cried when she was on the phone with her dad, but it got just a bit melodramatic at times which was brought on by America Ferrera's and everybody else in it's performance. Still, very beautiful and entertaining. I liked how the film ended with a closure to her story.
Lena's was probably the second most self-discovering storyline there was, because as a result of her falling in love she breaks out of the shell that everyone had been keeping her in and I find that very respectable, but it was a little boring at times, while I didn't think the others were.
I'd rather be disemboweled with a toothbrush.
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Screen_Queen
14 years ago
I really like your explanations of everything, it's pretty much how I felt too.
Anyhow it's hard for me to pick because I related to all of them. If I had to pick according to most fun storylines, I would pick
1. Bridget
2. Tibby
3. Lena
4. Carmen
But if I chose according to who I could relate to the most and who's stories meant the most to me, it would be
1. Carmen
2. Tibby
3. Lena
4. Bridget
I'm in a really similar situation to Carmen's and everytime I watch the film I always cry at the part where she runs out of the fitting department, when she sees them eating dinner without her, and when she calls her dad. To me it's so cathartic. TBH I didn't find her melodramatic at all because when you keep your feelings to yourself so much like she did you can't stop it from rushing out when you do decide to let everything go. I could never bring myself to do what she did so I pretty much just experience it vicariously. Carmen's the type of person I could talk to.
I'm pretty similar to Tibby in terms of personality. I'm rebellious because I hate conformity. I'm also stuck in a boring retail job and spend my spare time filming things I find interesting. I'm always left to my own devices every summer because my mum's always working and my friends go away. I loved how Tibby found someone in the end that allowed her to express herself emotionally and not just creatively. She always spent her time looking at people through a lens but nobody ever stopped to look and think about her. Bailey opened her eyes to the beautiful things in people and ultimately Tibby just stopped being negative. A lot of people search for the one thing that will change them for good, that will show them what it means to really live, and she found it.
I thought Lena's story was really interesting for the same reasons as Dragoneyed said. I'm incredibly shy and watching her find a way to open her heart to love someone breaks my heart every time. Sometimes people build walls up because they had bad experiences in the past. And for something different and something better to come along showing them there are still better things in the world really lets them hope.
I've never been flirtatious like Bridget. But I know what it's like to be so focused on something you become "single-minded to the point of recklessness". When you have a hole in your heart filled with pain and regret all you want to do is run away from it and do anything that will take you away so you can stop thinking about it. Sometimes you try filling it with everything that comes your way but it never covers up what you really feel. I cry when she makes amends with her father.
One of the reasons why I really love this movie is because they're all so real and relatable. They're the type of friends you wish you had, or know, or once knew. But above all they're the kind of people you love whether you know them or not.
"Tool up, honey bunny. It's time to get bad guys."
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Dragoneyed363
14 years ago
What I meant by melodramatic was that they all got carried away with it a bit and it came off as a little pushy and rushed, but I mean it was maybe like one or two scenes and it was just a little bit, that's all. . I totally agree with "But above all they're the kind of people you love whether you know them or not."
I'd rather be disemboweled with a toothbrush.
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YourAgent
14 years ago
Well put, screen queen. I mostly agree.
I met Cinderella once... she's actually kind of a bitch.
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