The movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days used to be just a romantic comedy that was fun to watch because of the classic storyline that a “player” can get any girl in a bar but falls in love with her after 10 days. This target Andie Anderson writes for a magazine and she is assigned to write an article on how to lose a guy in 10 days. After they both fall in love with each other they begin to lose each other when it comes out that they are playing each other to win a bet/for an article.
I am confused about the ideology of this movie, there are many different points to it besides being a basic rom com that can be a tearjerker at times. But it has a lot of qualities that would make a feminist pissed. The way women in this movie are shown to be crazy, and full of hormones that cannot be controlled. Therein lies my issue with the movie. There is so much that is wrong with this movie, in the ways that women can’t be into sports and they have to be prissy and dumb to get a guy to fall in love with them. The movie negatively portrays so many women and boils it down to hormonal creatures who are too dumb for their own good, they are played by men too easily.
While it has its downsides, this movie is honest about one thing. Being too honest can hurt a relationship. Benjamin and Andie learned that when the truth about how they got together comes out. The breakup scenes in this movie do replicate how bad it really is to have your heat broken, to find out you had been lied to by someone you began to care deeply about. Looking back on this movie it’s pretty anti-feminist, which could be very typical for the time it was produced in. The movie is set to make the man (Benjamin) be very dominate and the classic male archetype of being the “top dog”. He is the classic male led that is hard on the outside but behind the walls and plays he’s a good guy from good family and that’s what makes Andie fall for him. She finally sees what he’s really like.
The whole movie could use a lot of updating for people today to not find it anti-feminist and demining. That being said there is so many parts of it that are good, it kind of tells you what to look for when you find someone you think you are falling for. It’s an aggressively good time when watching.
