The final chapter of the Sex and the City saga, which turned out to be the most hypocritical project in television history, arrives today. Definitely! Over the years, the world has watched with bated breath of Carrie Bradshaw’s great, pure love for Mr. Big, a wealthy investment tycoon who owns a Napa Valley property and a New York penthouse. For a country idiot who lost his mother early and had to take care of his sister in his youth, we thought that love with a New York millionaire and a handsome man was the lucky ticket, an incredible combination of circumstances. After all, as we learned later, Carrie lost her mother before she went to school, lived in an unknown place and came to New York at the age of 25. It is an uneducated year. A girl from the general queue of a fashion club. And such love!
We were all gently envious. And we believed that one day we would be lucky too. Young girls dreamed of falling in love with a millionaire and that he would lose his head from them and break up with his model wife for the sake of love. The married did not despair: what if her husband becomes rich, beautiful? In general, the audience enthusiastically assimilated the fairy tale. Everyone wanted to be the kind of girl that a super rich and handsome man would eventually fall in love with.
What is it now? In the previous season, Mr. Big died after overworking in training. He was older than Carrie, clearly sixty-five, but he pursued a fashionable “lifestyle”, bought himself a trendy exercise bike, and died fashionable. The first series of the series “And just like that …”. How worried we all were for Carrie! Love of life! For six seasons and one feature film, she chased after the man of her dreams. We all fell in love with him. It seemed inexhaustible that Carrie stood in the middle of the shower with the lifeless body of the love of her life. “What else can be shown in the series where the prince died in the first episode?” They assumed everything: Carrie would end up in a mental institution. Or do astrology. He will go to the Indians to stand on the nails in the ashram. He will send all the legacy of Bigovo to charities …
The versions were very different, but not a single critic seems to have guessed it. Because throughout the series, Carrie ran on dates! She was then either 55 or 57 years old—at the end of the project the writers were confused, how much, but Carrie was no longer young. And now, years after menopause ended, widowed, losing the love of her life, she’s gone on dates. Since a person must always be in demand, be sexually active, modern dogma pushes him towards foreign men. “I am sought, therefore I am.” Carrie was forced to go on dates as something imperative and appropriate. It’s like two months of mourning for her beloved husband – this is defiant, a spit in the face of society. Celebrating the forties but still longing for the widow? How inappropriate!
The publisher even forced Carrie to meet. He asked them to run. To “beat yourself”. The publisher wanted a normal, modern story.
It’s been a year since Big died in the shower, until the day Carrie stood by with a book published on the occasion and read the audio version, when she managed to get away, fly to Paris, escape. She’s dating, writing and publishing a book, starting novels “just for sex” and even maturing to write to her ex-girlfriend Aidan, a country furniture maker. Carrie immediately plunged herself into a passionate relationship with him and suddenly revealed that falling in love with Mr. Big was most likely a mistake!
Mistake! Six seasons, two feature films; You see, an error. He bought a penthouse, paid for expensive purchases, left a legacy of several million, and then realized he was wrong. More importantly, it’s a simple affair with a country boy who makes furniture, even if he has bad taste and three unruly children. Carrie turned out to be a disinterested soul who values warmth, intimacy, and romance above all else in relationships. A blow to the greedy victims of capitalism.
First, Miranda is retiring from a prestigious paid job and opting to volunteer in the human rights industry. Now Carrie loudly says that a rich man with an attic apartment can be worse than a simple man who does not know how to choose wedding rings.
Appreciate simplicity, comfort, spontaneity, appreciate those who need you, live for others – as if Miranda and Carrie were yelling at us. At first, however, Miranda made a fortune by serving the interests of big corporations, overcoming them. It’s easy to be a philanthropist if you’ve saved a few million for your life. And it’s easy to love a country boy if a city jolly guy has left you millions.
Yes, if you also have a fortune from your late husband, it turns out that it is easy to appreciate the simplicity of relations with a furniture manufacturer with a modest income and three children on his neck. The story of American love has turned into a hypocritical comedy. As long as being close to him provided money, status, elegance and the same penthouse, elders were needed. Money, like power, falls in love. A lot of women really like rich and powerful people and Mr. John Preston was handsome too, why shouldn’t Carrie fall in love with him?
But much more interesting was why she wasn’t in love with Aidan at the time. Very simple. Poor. It tasted bad. Not suitable for going out. I haven’t looked at new restaurants and brunches with my girlfriends. In general, he’s the kind of idiot that’s hard to love as he can’t give you anything but great and pure love. And with Big, love came with traveling the world, a penthouse, and a hefty sum in the bank.
What changed? Why did the big turn into a mistake? Because he left millions to Carrie. He’s rich now. Big has the money, he doesn’t need to think about making money and live in a cramped apartment with Aidan. He could fly to Paris himself, regardless of how much alimony he would send to his sons. He bought a huge two-story apartment where all these sons could come without disturbing him with their presence. In the final episode, she dreamily calls Aidan “Our apartment.”
“Yes, ours,” he repeated, stroking Carrie’s leg.
However, they both forgot to mention that the flat was bought with Big’s money. And that lighthearted love is only possible when Big still has Carrie. The perfect guy left the money and disappeared, giving him an excuse to wear a fancy hat at the funeral.
Carrie is happy with Aidan because Big was covering their lives and expenses. What does he regret? Was it a big mistake? Perhaps the surest decision for her would be to give Carrie the money while she’s still alive and disappear.
Anyway, this is hypocrisy. There is feminism, gender diversity and democracy. Their daughter Charlotte changed her gender and name, everyone adored and supported it. They are very free, progressives. We’re not like bastards. It is immediately clear that there is a democratic nation with freedom for all.
However, in the series, we see that they all have the same skins in reality. They only sell skins that can be happy when they have money. Miranda doesn’t leave an NGO before starting her career as a corporate lawyer, then she goes there. And she teaches us to sacrifice ourselves. Alone, but not with the money he earns.
Carrie teaches selfless love by inheriting a great legacy from the Bug in her life. All irrelevant. Even Stanford Bletch dropped everything and became a monk. In the final episode, we witnessed another bizarre turn of the plot: The elderly gay Stanford, who disappeared last season after the actor died of cancer during filming, has appeared in the form of a photograph: the late Waiter Willie was dressed in a monastic robes. And we learned that Stanford flew to Japan, dropped everything and became a monk. First, in relation to the deceased artist, this is somewhat blasphemous: he played after his death. Second, same story: First he played games in New York, earned enough money to sing at Liza Minnelli’s wedding, then regained his sight and became a monk.
Before he became rich, none of them had developed a love of simplicity. Now it’s a different matter if they take off their veils or go to work for free voluntarily in a rented studio as a poor person. And so – just a hypocrisy. The rich teach the poor how to be deprived of everything. At the same time, the same Miranda wrinkles her nose when she visits a blogger friend who lives in a cramped rental odnushka.
Maybe things will change in the final episode. For example, Aidan, who is already overtly uncomfortable and suspicious, will turn away from Carrie because he realizes that he doesn’t need her without the money and the limousine, and he wouldn’t fit in if that money didn’t fall. The late athlete Preston fell from the sky on her. It would be fair. After all, she left him without accepting paradise in a cottage with a rustic friend. And now she also does not agree, she is ready to live with him in a rich apartment and not deny anything. Allows great.
Generally an unpleasant aftertaste. Carrie better pay off her debt. He made a mistake, you see.
No, this beautiful spender who did not even know how to cook eggs at the age of sixty was not wrong about anything, he calculated everything correctly, took money and can afford any extravagant relationship. It’s easy to be weird when you’re terribly rich. That seems to be the gist of the final season of Sex and the City. The poor are not weird, they work and they want money.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.