SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen “Bridget Jones’s Baby” yet – and don’t want to know how it turns out – then click away now!
Did Bridget Jones pick the right man?!
The years have not been kind to Bridget Jones. She looks a lot older than her 43 years (all that smoking must have finally caught up with her); and she finds herself celebrating her birthday all on her lonesome ownsome.
What happened?! Sadly, things just didn’t work out with her Mr Darcy – she always felt she came a poor second to his high powered law career. Her old gang have all become ‘smug marrieds’ with kids. At least Bridget has her career …
Yet before the month is out, she finds herself pregnant, with two potential candidates as her baby daddy.
Who is the biological father? Is it her old flame, Mark Darcy? Or is it the dashing American, Jack Qwant? And who will she choose “for better, for worse”?!
Although I gave you a spoiler alert, I’m not going to tell you who is the daddy.
But I am going to tell you that the movie closes with Bridget (finally!) marrying Mark Darcy. I love a happy ending, don’t you?
As the credits rolled however, I couldn’t help thinking: Did Bridget pick the right man?
I’m not so sure.
Don’t get me wrong – I loved the movie.
I’m just not convinced that Mark Darcy was the best choice. To me, the fairytale happy ending was pure fiction.
I get that they had a shared history, a familiarity, and a strong chemistry.
But if Bridget and Mark couldn’t make their relationship work BEFORE, what on earth makes them think they can do it now – with a baby to complicate things?
There was no indication they they did anything to address the issues that led them to break up before.
Sure, Mark tossed his mobile phone out the window to prove that Bridget was more important to him. Such a grand gesture! But good luck with that … Because the reality is, he’ll still need a mobile phone!
Did they go for couples counselling? Did he truly change his ways, and put Bridget and the baby first? Have they learned to communicate properly?
Love is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t triumph over everything – or at least, not without a lot of hard work.
Or maybe I should remember that this is just a movie, and the foundations have been laid for the next film in the series: Bridget Jones – the Twilight Years …
What do you think? Did Bridget pick the right man, or am I just being a negative Nellie?!