My Best Friend’s Wedding

The 90s romantic lead that I adore is Julia Roberts and I love spending time with her! I had been meaning to watch My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) for a long time along with other films featuring her. So, in that movie, Julianne does better than what the modern’s time Julienne does or is seen doing throughout the movie. My best friend invited me to a movie night and we reached ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ together, and throughout the movie, all I told her was that Julianne deserves much better than what Michael tells her.

Julianne finds herself head over heels in love with her childhood friend hastes announced that he will marry someone else. She reluctantly agrees to be the maid of honor but tries her utmost ends to ruin the wedding, all the while Michael, without any reason, seems to torment her in a never-ending web of confusion. The movie ends with Julien revealing to Michael that she is in love with him only for him to reject her and advances to marry Kimmy.

The movie has been lauded for its original premiss seeing how it is rather a woman who ends up loving herself instead of needing a man and didn’t really need him whereas the end. Of course, it is nice to be able to say all those things when the man has totally ignored you for the last 9 years, but still, Jules has to deal with Michael and go out of her way to make sure the wedding of him and Kimmy is perfect.

After witnessing Jules declare her love and kiss Michael, Kimmy dashes out of the place, this triggers Jules to go after Kimmy to bring the two girls together. While the movie portrays this as an act of bravery and as showing friendship for Michael, it instead feels more like a continuation of all the unreturned favors she seems to be doing for him.

There were things about this movie that I found to be quite disagreeable for example the concept of making an agreement to get married at age 28 offers some very unsettling factors I feel for even the nineties. There’s usually a lot of time to get married at the age of 28, to begin with if you happen to be Julia Roberts. On the flipside however, I feel that Jules and her editor George seem to be closer as friends rather than her and Michael ever were. He tries his best to assist her in achieving the goals she sets as well as supporting her during the tough times.

He shows the effort that Jules had always craved from Michael. I see no reason for Jules to call Michael her best friend as she does in fact have a great relationship with him which even Georg notes when he says think whether Michael is someone she wants to marry or just someone she wants to make happy. The fact that she never even knew this was because Michael was dating Kimmy probably further confirms how far removed from reality their friendship is from what she conceives it to be.

Despite making some attempts to ruin the wedding, which is perhaps not a great thing to do, Jules, on the one hand, takes all the responsibility for herself for having fallen in love with Michael in the first place. She often brings up their past relationship after the time when they had a short romance, but decided to go friends, but, in conjunction with Michael’s acute tendency to seductive approaches, this too only serves to fuel Jules’ emotions. On top of that, Kimmy mentions who other women contesting with Jules, the problem is, that Michael is always saying those things to her, saying she is on the pedestal and she can hardly meet that expectation. It’s pretty clear that, finally, Michael is Bad.

He is not even a good friend, and I personally think he should have had to take some responsibility for his own actions. Even if the film never tries to tell us he is Good, it reveals Jules’ fight of being her self despite holding on to built up emotions and influencing him, which is unjust. No, the affection of these two has nothing to do with the fantasy Jules has: he goes along with all her phases of soft and sincere affection and the boy is clearly in doubt about Kimmy’s place in his life even about a week to the wedding.

Jules has all the right reasons to think that she can end up with the man she loves, if only she follows her instincts.

Michael gets away with his cruelty and mental abuse, and gets to close the film with his new wife and a woman who would not mind bending over backwards to make him happy. Jules walks away with George and is free of her feelings for Michael, but it still means a considerable amount of wasted time on a man who never really bothered to cherish her. My take on this is that she should have run away once she was told that she would not be getting married to this idiot and let the two sort out the wedding details. If Michael and Kimmy don’t even have the basic communication skills to set up this wedding of theirs, how in the world are they ever going to love each other forever?

She should be given more than just self progression resulting from her babying a man which I think is unjust. What she really deserves is the kind of love that she offered the world, and thankfully at 27, she still has wide options to do so.

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