The First Wives Club Analysis

Sitting on the couch, waiting for the movie to begin, only having knowledge from what was in the trailer. Girl meets boy. Boy cheats on girl. Girl hatches plan. Girl gets revenge. However what if you meet all his love affairs? Even with all the overdramatised scenes and the cliché ending, “The Other Woman” is still one of my favourite movies from 2014.
Created by Nick Cassavetes “The Other Woman”, seems only to be another typical love film. Based in Westhampton Beach, New York, the film focuses on three women who spend their time “chasing” after a man around the world. However, looking deeper in the film it is clearly evident that the film strongly links to 1996 film “The First Wives Club”. As evident in The First Wives Club, strong women take
Particular “rules” have to be followed and “ideal” images for women have to be kept. Women are raised in society to fill particular positions, opportunities are limited for women and the ideas our women’s importance is society are diminishing. This occurs when Kate awaits at home for the arrival of her husband to come home from work or long business trips, only to be doing shopping, cleaning; being a stereotypical housewife. The different characters and events that occur in “The Other Woman” offer a new perspective to tragic circumstances within the film. For example both Kate and Carly feel more than just destroyed after discovering his love affairs. In particular, the women, for the most part of the film, stand together and help to get justice for the cruel
A strong woman is the one who is independent but respects others, and supports other women in the choices they make. She moulds herself to betterment in hard times in her life. A woman still gets emotions but these emotions do not barricade her journey to success in life. Whereas society views women not as the dominant or powerful gender, but as the weaker gender following in the footsteps of their other half, to serve as a “slave”. Once a woman can overcome the fear of the past and realise that being an independent, strong woman, does not take away from being feminine. Being in love and accept being loved by another is still emotionally accepting in her more dominant role as a woman. Given the opportunity a lot of women still thrive in the less dominant roles and like the ideas of being looked after, and looking after a man. However in modern times it is not a perfect life for many women, some men are less accepting of the fact of being with one woman, and look for a spark of romance in another, younger