Went to see "It's Complicated" again yesterday with my friend. Once you get past the fact that Alec Baldwin is old, it's a great flick. What's sad about it though, is I can easily relate to how the character Meryl Streep plays feels about herself.
She's aging, she's finally comfortable with herself, she's a bit afraid to show herself naked in daylight. She wants to take life a little less seriously and she is ready to do things for herself. Well, she's already started that but that's because the character is divorced. I'm not so that part I can't quite relate to.
Her ex-husband is remarried to a rather young, physically fit (but not all that hot, if you ask me) woman and it's still quite shocking to MS's character. I'm curious when I started siding with the older woman and didn't feel some sort of connection to the younger one?
WHAT'S HAPPENED? When did I age and why didn't anyone tell me?
I haven't really ever been a fan of Meryl. I never disliked her. She was just always that older woman in a whole bunch of movies. Some I saw, some I didn't. But watching her in this and in Julie & Julia recently, I've really comet to enjoy her.
She doesn't seem to have given into the pressure for plastic surgery and while she's not some extremely fit, wrinkle free woman, she's aging beautifully and has the class of a queen. She talks wonderfully, carries herself well and radiates confidence.
That's what I want to be next year, when I'm 'older'.
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