Let me tell you a bit more about ‘What Men Want’. Well I looked away from many full scenes. I wouldn’t recommended it if you are sensitive to explicit stuff. I had just donated blood after a four hour bus ride and several other transportation connections. So I’ll just say that the experience was about as extreme as you get…humanistically. I was like – grossed out too. Let’s say a few good words, philosophize, then sum it up.
Taraji P. Henson was the real acting star. Of course there is feminism here, but not too typical. She could get you embarrassed or feeling totally insane and probably motivated to try harder at work or relationships because let’s face it, compromise or plain giving up is easier or truthfully what most people do. After high school some stuff is too difficult. Especially if you are sober. What people want in general is for all the problems to go away or solve themselves, while the fun part never ends! Finding your role at work, life and with your significant other is a big part, your responsibility. Fate lines people up sometimes, but from there it can be the biggest battle. Especially when humans and spirits want you apart. One great individual can change the world forever; one amazing couple is a threat to all established civilization.
Probably with a different cast this movie would have been unbearable unless you were a Vegas worker with a stellar sense of humor, but hard to say. Really the sense of humor with these performances could be like therapy as people in 2019 are mostly online and in that, don’t or can’t express themselves at work or in person. It’s dysfunction. It’s in the rules for our protection and from mistakes which keeps success a priority sometimes by accident to those habitual to doing what they are told. Proclaim this and I watch everyone running an awkward social race to catch up for a day or two and then it goes away due to uncomfortable controversy to what rules were broken, the social standards in jeopardy or laziness and the fact that somebody said ‘TMI!’, until you start squeaking the wheel.
So the message overall at the end is good and not too sappy, but as I am critical these days with the role I have been shaped in by the blog – I can imagine I’ll probably see one more movie for February cause I’m rambling for the story here to avoid the fact that it’s over the top with graphic nature and language even when having closed my eyes. The best part was probably Erykah Badu’s character and outtakes that round off the credits.