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| KGNU Radio, "Hotshots," April 26, 2012
"THINK LIKE A MAN"
("Funny, but Predictable")
"Hotshots" looks at a movie!
THINK LIKE A MAN has so many characters in it that at first it is
difficult to tell who is who and who is dating whom, and then by the time you
do figure it out, the movie is over.
The title comes from a real book written by comedian Steve Harvey that
became a best seller in 2009 and was titled ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN
and had the subtitle of "What Men Really Think about Love, Relationships,
Intimacy and Commitment."
It was an advice book for women written by a man, and it plays an important
part in this movie, which is a comedy, and Harvey himself appears throughout the
movie talking about the book on a daytime talk show and then again from time to
time giving advice straight to the audience.
The story follows a number of men and women who are dating each other, the
men are all friends with each other, and their group also includes one man who is
getting a divorce and another man who is happily married.
When one of the men says at the beginning of the movie, "Life is great,
Fellows, may it never change," we in the audience can predict that it is going
to change, and it might not be so great for them, either.
You see, the women in the movie discover the advice book, they all read it,
and they start manipulating the men they are dating in order to make the men do
what the women want.
Now, the men aren't so easily manipulated, because they are men, after all,
but when they discover that the women they are dating are all reading the book
and using its advice to try to change the men, the men all read the book, too,
and try to use its advice to their own advantage.
And that is what makes this movie a comedy, because things don't always work
out as planned when you try to change someone.
Here are just two of the women's situations.
One woman has been going out with a man for nine years, and she decides that
she is going to require him to propose to her.
Another woman has a son and she is dating a mama's boy.
THINK LIKE A MAN is funny, but predictable.
I'm Dan Culberson and this is "Hotshots."
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