Lady B Plottin

Painful. I love a good chick flick, but this was just... several of the more cringy clichés surrounding an unlikable protagonist who becomes more and more unlikeable as the movie progresses. Quirky insecurities can win over your sympathy in a book reading into that character's thoughts, but in this movie we just see a personality that comes across as bland, entitled, and inconsistently emotional. Red flags everywhere! Most guys would head the other way. Especially when she feels all indignantly justified about charging over in her pajamas and yells at the guy in front of a whole restaurant?! Inability to regulate your emotions is not attractive, ladies! I was embarrassed for her. Just drop a guy and move on, don't lash out cause it just looks bad on you! Then she hijacks a beautiful family meal that so many put all this effort into. As if her emotions are more important, she ruins the event for everyone because again she cannot manage her behavior enough to not cause drama. Pretty sure all the Italians would be like, "This is why we don't like Americans," after that scene. Why are we perpetuating unhealthy representations of women like this? The main love interest has to apologize like a wounded puppy because she was mad at his pre-existing lifestyle even though he only exists as a plot devise to represent a false ideal of a romantic interest despite the fact that there was absolutely no chemistry between them and neither of them would have ever been drawn to each other in reality. Then she kisses the guy with whom she has had actually real moments, but he has a girlfriend. But that's okay because both of them are justified in being crummy like that because ~feelings~, so don't judge main characters by their actions because toxic traits don't count if you think you're the main character of your story. The Gen Z way of expressing and conducting themselves does not come across well. This generation is gonna have it rough in the romance department.