She Devil (<-- IMDB link)
Oh my god. This movie
is amazing! It stars Roseanne Barr and
it’s probably from the late 1980’s (hair's a giveaway), but it is AMAZING. It’s really funny, and kind of a women’s
rights/activist movie, though that is very subtle.
Rose’s (movie and real name) husband, Bob, (Ed Begley, Jr.) cheats on her with a best
selling novelist, Mary Fisher, (Meryl Streep) who is much more “beautiful and thin” than her. She knows this is happening, but swears that
her husband will come back to her and that he is just going through a phase. Eventually, they have a big argument about it,
and he leaves during a dinner party that she throws for his parents (in which
many things go wrong). He ends the fight
by calling her a “she devil,” whilst insulting everything about her.
Rose then creates a list of the things that he said were important
to him, and she decides to embody the so-called “she-devil.” The main plot is how she decides to destroy Bob's life. She creates a list of the top four things he said was the most important to him, and one by one she ruins them, and it's quite ...exploding.
The underlying point this movie is trying to make concerns women's rights. Through a series of events, she ends up meeting a bunch of different
women, empowering them by saying beauty isn’t skin deep, and telling
them it’s okay stand up for themselves--but I should also mention that she is simultaneously setting them using them as pawns in her master plan.
She and a friend create a company where these “mistreated and
underappreciated” women can learn how to be powerful and take control of their
lives. So it's kind of cool because while she is taking revenge on Bob, she becomes this successful business tycoon-type, creating other women like her.
I don’t want to give too much away, because it is a funny
movie and I want you to see it. Especially if you
want to have a lazy, giggly Sunday.
Enjoy!
