Food was served to visitors in the temple's community kitchen, so I sat on the floor and leaned over to eat. I lost my balance as I tried to get up. One hand clenched my plate, the other hand swaying with the skin of my head, my face slipping and I began to wobble. I was a moment from the crash to the floor. If a kind soul hadn't taken my arm, perhaps on someone, flying food, scarves draped on people's plates, skirts on – magnificent in one of the world's most sacred places It was inappropriate.
“It was a proper Bridget Jones moment,” I said, recalling the horror.
Helen Fielding's unfortunate heroine in our cultural pichet has shortened it in a time when “Bridget's Moment” was not winning in life.
I was a former Bridget Jones generation. My friend and I were young women in the 90s when Bridget Jones' diary came out, based on Fielding's semi-autobiographical newspaper column. This book was interesting and relevant. Of the decade-old young magazines and supermodels, there was finally someone like us here. Bridget was a confused singleton, lacking willpower and probably plenty. She knocks back Chardonnay with a packet of cut silk on the go, despairing her calorie intake and unable to find her “inner calm.”
In our 30s cusp, when life was supposed to be calm and wise, we were nothing else, we felt Bridget's pain.
She's back with the fourth installment of ROM Com Film Franchise, based on the Fielding book. Bridget Jones: Mad Abba the Boy, opening at cinemas next week, Rennie Zelweger recreates his role as Bridget, now in his 50s, raising two children alone, and toes into a dating pool Soak it.
From what I saw in the trailer, it lacks the sparkle of previous films and Bridget's comics along with her well-talked-about children, so she once said “middle class” was so poignant looks like “married” of.
Except that she is no longer married. Like Helen Fielding, Bridget is a widow, so this film is said to be particularly heart-warming. As Zellweger says, not many people reach Bridget's age without experiencing some kind of grief.
Bridget Jones as a young woman was her time, and the fat shame and workplace sexual harassment in the first two films will flinch us today. But as a character who has been allowed to age and still made a mistake, she has a lasting appeal — and Midas touches on at the box office. These films aren't everyone's tea, but they were huge global franchises that made the working title the first British film company, and took over $1 billion.
Bridget's charm is not limited to her generation. Fielding says in the book's signature that half of her audience is ZS. My nie, in her 20s, reads all the books, loves films and has been excited for months with this new book.
Bridget has flaws, which makes her affection stand. Back in the 90s, we welcomed a girl with scatty who looked drunk in her pyjamas. Because with a 10-year-old stick thin model and ockney's radette, she was a breath of fresh air. And despite her hangs, she remained an optimist.
She spread across her couch, smeared wine and flicked ashes onto the carpet, and waited for Mr. Darcy to call. We all did that.
It feels a bit sad to catch up with her as a middle-aged widow, but if she is still a flawed optimist and is slamming the “Bridget's moment” then, like Darcy, we continues to love her.
