Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Have you seen the first one? Great, you've seen this one too! Ok, that's perhaps a bit glib but it's essentially true. If I'm to be accurate it's the first one but not as enjoyable and with a few more questionable elements. It makes for a generally unsatisfying experience. There's definitely something dispowering for a female character to need to find a man in order to be happy, but in the previous film it at least felt she was still going to find love on her own terms, wanting someone to love her as she is. But right off the bat Bridget feels like she has a bit less agency in The Edge of Reason as she has become so consumed with a relationship. She's paranoid and obsessed to the point she belongs in Ingrid Goes West. She's even angry at Mark for having not proposed within 2 months of their relationship starting. It just feels unrealistic and unreasonable. In fact this Flanderization is not limited to Bridget. Her friends are even more annoying in this film in the way they giv
