However, despite these positive attributes, Bennett was teased by his friends and portrayed by them as the one who wasn’t as cool or as social.Īt the end of the scene however, Bennett made his friends realize what truly mattered in life and opened their eyes to the strong relationships they were neglecting. It displays responsibility to know when to go home and know your partying limits. In reality, it is a positive trait to be able to balance friends and family. His friends teased him and reacted negatively saying he was not being fun and should stay out with them. For instance, in one scene he announced he needed to leave the bar early to go home and be with his wife. Throughout the film he was made out to be a “loser” or the “party crasher” by his friends. One of the friends that was white, named Bennett, was described in the film as being married and with children at home. The group of friends for the majority was black. In the film, much of it was based around a group of guy friends.
#Act like a lady think like a man movie#
The fact that this movie is portraying these themes is telling viewers that these themes are reality. Not all communication will help in relationships. Not all relationships will be able to fixed if there is a problem. Not all relationships will end in the perfect ending. Even though there are white characters in the movie, only the characters that have black partners are in the film at all.īelieving in the messages of the movie could provide men and women with false hope in their relationships. One more theme that is portrayed in this film is that only relationships involving black men or women are interesting. In the end when everyone starts communicating and being honest the relationships work out for the best. In the film the characters both plot against the opposite sex to get what they want in their relationships, but lying ends up making the relationships fail. Not all men have a specific type, and not all problems can be fixed.Ĭommunication in relationships is also a meaning behind this movie. The book outline ways in which women can fix, or get in a relationship with a type of man. In the movie the book that each female character reads and uses as a ‘play book’ called Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man. Throughout the film many people are portrayed as having problems in their relationship or no relationship at all, but at the end of the movie all of the main characters are in happy (or seemingly happy) relationships.Īnother meaning to this movie is that all problems in relationships can be fixed. One of the most obvious meanings is that true love exits. There are multiple meanings to this movie. Step 4: Diagnosis (evaluating and criticizing) They leave out the fact that not every couple will be able to get back together in the end after they break up No matter how much of a player he is or if he never puts you first, love can always change him into a better man. The stereotypes of relationships the movie portrays that women are able to change the way men are. The stereotypes of women are: the independent single mom, the girl who has been screwed over too many times so she has trust issues, the business woman who seems to only care about money and looks of her men, and the controlling girlfriend who changes everything. The movie starts off identifying each one of the stereotypes of men right off the bat The Player, The Mama’s Boy, The Dreamer, The Non-Committer, The Happily Married guy, and The Happier Divorced guy. The genre(s) is romantic comedy, comedy, or black Comedy Steve Harvey wrote the book as a way for women to have insight into the mans brain, in hopes to help relationship form and grow and heal due to the fact that now, women can understand more about how a man thinks. Until the very end where everyone ends up conveniently getting back together at the same time. In the end, everyone’s lies catch up with them and all the couples split for a while. Eventually, the men find out about the book and use it to get back at the girls so they can get what they want as well. They use the book as a playbook on the mans mind. All the women in the movie read the book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to help them gain insight on the guys they are pursuing. Each one of these men, besides the Happily Married guy, finds a woman who makes them change their ways to win the hearts of the women who changed them. Think Like A Man is about a group of six guys, each one representing a certain stereotype of men. But this movie was based on Steve Harvey’s actual novel Act Like A Woman, Think Like A Man. Newman, while the director was Tim Story. The writers of this movie were Keith Merryman and David A. The tile of the film is called Think Like a Man and it was made/aired in 2012.
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