another movie suggestion...

Today I watched Real Women Have Curves and suggest that everyone check it out!

The main character Ana (played by America Ferrara also in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies and my personal favorite Ugly Betty) is going through a lot of changes in her life and is constantly being held back by her traditional and sometimes overbearing mother.

Instead of it being a "journey-type" movie where the main character discovers her beauty, Ana already knows she is beautiful so the journey she takes is one to subtly teach others this same self-love.

The movie addresses many female issues surrounding body image and the fact that though they are all women(and are constantly clumped into that category), each issue is still quite different from the other. Ana reassures herself that no matter what others say, it is her own voice that is the most important. A great message.

Although I enjoyed the movie, I did have a bit of an issue with the title. For such powerful and interesting content, the title is weak. It is strong in saying that real women are beautiful despite not having what the media portrays as the perfect body shape, but it is also weak because it fails to include all women. The title says nothing about women who don't have curves and are still challenged by those media images for one reason or another. Yes, the title rejects the media's selectiveness but it also finds itself just as exclusive. Are curveless women to be left out of both groups because they don't have the perfect body or the body of a real woman?

I suggest the title be changed to, All Women have Issues with Body-Image and That's Okay!
Rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't it? :)

What do you guys think of the title? Inclusive, exclusive or neither?

Martha