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Here is our review on Nancy Meyers much-hyped movie "The Intern." We discuss some key takeaways from the travails and triumphs of the 'new age woman.'
Did you see Nancy Meyers’s much-hyped movie, The Intern? We discuss some key takeaways from the travails and triumphs of the ‘new age woman.’
While Nancy Meyers has succeeded in churning out another feel-good flick, most critics have dismissed Anne Hathaway and Robert de Niro-starrer The Intern as more froth and much less substance. And perhaps with good reason.
Jules Ostin (Hathaway), despite the head-spinning success of her e-commerce startup, often cuts a sorry figure, barely able to juggle work and home, or even work and food/sleep. In walks Senior Intern Robert de Niro, armed with a handkerchief and everything, subtly setting Ostin’s perspective straight, with a knowing glance here and a comforting word there. A vestige of the “dying breed” of chivalrous and sensitive men, he acts as the voice of reason (and often emotion) for Ostin, the quintessential “new woman.
The script is weak in places, the narrative lacks novel execution, the portraiture of characters is faulty and the denouement is not entirely surprising. Even so, there is much in this lighthearted comedy that will strike a chord with many a working woman. I would even go as far as to say, go watch it FOR SURE and definitely with your partner in tow. Here are some key takeaways from the travails and triumphs of the “new age woman”
It is time to look much more closely at the issue. For a married couple, this balance can probably be achieved if there is a certain flexibility in and re-interrogation of traditional gender roles within the marital framework. Ostin’s husband Matt (Anders Holm) is an adoring stay-at-home dad, though not the perfect husband. He bows out of a fledgling career to enable his enterprising wife to start up, while he dons the kitchen apron and plays mommy to their cute child. “He literally saved our asses”, quips Ostin at one point.
Women have always been considered as the primary nurturers of home and hearth after marriage, and even a minor slip here and there leads to massive amounts of guilt. As Matt’s apology in the end amply testifies, workaholic, over-achieving career women deserve better than to be punished with their husbands turning adulterous. For a woman to be able to stretch out as the perfect professional and also the perfect mum, the menfolk also need to stretch out and be stronger pillars of support.
Ostin has a hard time keeping up with the other moms in her kid’s school, who clearly place huge premium on preparing “guacamole”, and have decided among themselves that she is a “total bad ass”. Hell, one of them even sleeps with her husband. It is true, peer pressure exists even at that stage- the pressure to be the perfect mom, and visibly “performing” your presence in your child’s life. Women, for their own sakes, have got to much more appreciative of each other’s choices. Just like choosing to be a home-maker doesn’t make you worthless, choosing to have a demanding career doesn’t make you a less worthy mother.
Watch this breezy, albeit flawed, flick with your partner, for the inevitable discussions later, about passion and perception, fulfilling and foregoing, loving and living.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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