Sex and the City

Sex and the City was directed by Darren Star, an outstanding American director of comedy movies. It stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw – the main character and the narrator throughout the series. Also starring: Kim Catrall as Samantha Jones, Kristin Davis as Charlotte York and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes. The series won eight Golden Globe Awards, besides it was nominated 125 times and won 36 times.

The film is set in New York in 1990s and was also filmed on location in New York and its vicinity. Only sporadically we can see some other locations, like, among others, Los Angeles.

The series is about four female New Yorkers – professionals, but at the same time lonely and looking human-beings. Carrie Bradshaw is a famous columnist. Because she is also very often a narrator to the story, we cannot get rid of the impression that we see the world from her own perspective. She is definitely looking for a real love, but somehow she cannot find it, after some time, however, she discovers that she is strangely and strongly attracted to a certain Mr. Big, as she calls him. She always tends to come back to him after these frequent times when they part and drift away. Miranda Hobbes is a successful legal professional, but she seems to have the same problem as Carrie – she desperately needs love and affirmation. Finally, after the long string of unsuccessful trials, she finds Steve – an insecure, modest and simple bartender. He soon appears to be a real nerd, but Miranda desperately tries not to see it and ultimately she even gives birth to their child. Charlotte York is also a very successful woman – she runs a famous gallery, located in the center of Manhattan. Unlike her three female friends, she needs not only love and appreciation, but also she is very concern about the formal aspect of love, namely she wants to get married. She finally manages to do that, but is she really happy in her marriage or would it be better to choose the path of the last but not least of four friends – Samantha Jones? What the latter needs isn’t actually love and nor it is marriage. She just want to … no, I cannot use her own words here to describe her preferences, so I would only say she likes fun very much.

I strongly recommend the whole series Sex and the City. It happens very rarely nowadays that you come across a really intelligent and witty movie. Although it may seem a little feministic and has an apparently liberal flavour, I’m sure it will be appreciated not only by left-wing supporters, but by every thinking creature in the civilized world.