Chicago.
This film is probably a better breakup movie than Waiting to Exhale. It's visually stimulating, with juxtaposing music scenes that switch between hard, cold, city images and fancy theater scenes with the actors singing onstage. It's rich. It's luscious. It's full of strong, manipulative, street-smart, wiseass female characters who commit to their choices no matter what the consequences. And yes, they accomplish what I think most girls passionately wish they could do sometimes . . . they kill their chauvenistic, slimy partners! They take them the f*** out! They get caught and go to prison and get attourneys and go to trial and hang and get off and become stars. Add in the jazzy sound and Bob Fosse choreography, and you've got a musical tale that is dripping with sexiness, vengeance, sarcasm, and female beguiling.
And of course it's fake. It's a movie/musical for crying out loud, don't take it so seriously. I am not advocating violence in any way.
It's just good. A little shot (haha) of girl power that is well performed and not even too cheesy for a musical. If you haven't seen it, check it out. If you don't have time to watch it, get the soundtrack.
Some of my favorite lines from this show are:
"You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic."
"So I took the shotgun off the wall and fired two warning shots . . . into his head."
"He had it comin.'"
"I didn't do it, but if I'd done it, how could you tell me that I was wrong?"
"Sure I'm sorry. Sorry I got caught!"
"When you're in trouble, go into your dance!"
"Stay away from jazz and liquor and the men who play for fun!"
"He liked to take me out and show me off for fun. Ugly guys like to do that."
"First I started foolin' around. Then I started screwin' around . . . which is foolin' around without dinner."
. . . and my ultimate favorite . . .
"OH, I'M NO ONE'S WIFE
BUT OH, I LOVE MY LIFE!"
And
All.
That.
Jazz.
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