WChicken future generations are studying creative works caught by the disorganized spirit of our year, can easily ignore Bridget Jones 4: Mad for a boy. The film is not about the historical point of inflection that coincides with its release. It is not characterized by Donald Trump, his vandalism of American democracy or his dissolution of the transatlantic alliance. Such things are not things romantic comedy. Also, it has not yet happened in 2013. year, when Helen Fielding wrote a book on which the film is based.
But the lack of intentional allegory does not prevent us from projecting him to the story. Or maybe only me, experienced sentimental hallucination caused by events outside the cinema. Leave me a moment (and forgive any spoilers), as I explain.
The first three Jones Dnevniks are Picaresque Chronicles of professional and sexual mission that is resolved in Darcy’s convincing arms, human rights based on the human rights: Stolid, emotional withdrawal, honorable and kind. That romance involved and excluding bridget from twelve anxiety towards Tirtisoma’s neurosis; From post-adolescent uncertainty to early crisis Midlife, unplanned pregnancy and, in the happy end, marriage.
Enabling some chronological elasticity (with lags between written books and customized for the cinema), Jones’s relationship with Darcy takes place against the political and economic background that the conditions reveals that the conditions are extremely benign. This is that this period is sometimes called high moderate moderation: approximately from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. in the global financial crisis in 2007-09.
Democracy fell apart to east across Europe. The trapped people were acquitted of communist dictatorships. The solution of the Soviet threats achieved a “peace dividend” for Western governments, enabling the redirection of budgetary defense resources on social consumption.
There was a sustainable peace process of the Middle East. In 1993. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook through Oliko Accords on the Lawn of the White House. The apartheid was dismantled in South Africa, who held his first free, multiratory elections in 1994. years. Dodbar agreement on Friday brought peace in northern Ireland in 1998. years. The UK was also in the economic flourishing that was still working for nine years.
In his status, London was the capital “Cool Britannia” – the art plant art, music and self-muse. This was the context in which the Dnevnik Bridget Jones first appeared as a weekly newspaper journalist in 1995. years. Her a means of performing her bristly was the same generation that affected their young adult steps in that clear spring of liberal metropolitans.
Jones was not exactly political, which made the eloquent exponent of Zeitgeist. “It is perfectly obvious that the labor force for sharing, kindness, gays, single mothers and Nelson Mandela,” she wrote in Ei’s choice of Tony Blair’s choice in 1997. years. Years. These were “Borying Bossy men who have things with everyone who Shag Shag Shagle left right and the center and going to Ritz in Paris, then saying all the presences on today’s program.”
We also know from a one-time column published in 2019. years Jones was the remaining In the wars for Bresit culture. In order to violate the legislative stalemate in parliament, she suggested that they join the forces of Queen Elizabeth, David Attenzija and Joanna Lumley, inviting the nation to review the referendum question.
It is a perfect feeling that the love of Bridget’s life should be a reputable lawyer who would fight global injustice. It was a match made in the late 20th century, when human rights were a word for everything that was a discrepancy in Western democracy. Career dedicated to their defense was an obvious device for comic book Robanist who wants to signal the frightening levels of moral upright ability in the character. (It is often said that Darcy is modeled on the younger charmer Keir. Fielding acknowledges that they are unusual art personnel in the profession and way, while they insisted that they are accidental.)
In the open minutes crazy about the boy, we learn that Darcy is dead. He was killed in duty, of course, on a humanitarian mission abroad. His widow fights to restart life and raise two children.
If, like me, you are easy to undergo a cinematic schmaltz, this is already an influential scenario. What I considered an unexpected thought that Darcy’s income death also functions as a metaphor for the death of political security defined by the world in which age. Her heart is a parable of political indignation, describing the liberal angst sudden detection of institutional and legal norms based on European security. (Plus sex and joke.)
In the week, the film was released, the US president reached the heads of former NATO alliances in NATO to accept Vladimir Putin. He took off the outline of the agreement to complete the war in Ukraine, which was part of the territorial capitulation of the aggressor, part of the Gangster extortion – offering the protection of KYIV in exchange for mineral wealth. JD Vance vice president gave an infamously frivolous speech at the Munich Security Conference. He claimed that freedom of more conceived cultural war spectries that persecute European democracies than is a Russian dictator whose tanks shorten the sovereignty of the neighboring state.
In the event of any long suspicion that the Trump regime has authoritarian ambitions, the president also claimed the social media last week that “who saves his country does not violate any law”. It is a signal that judges, courts and the Constitution should be subordinate to the leader whose personal preference is synonymous with national interest. Coming from a man who has an incentive overlooking 2020. years, Trump Aforism should be read as a hint that the spirit of the Patriotishim Maga was reached by thieves and militia, not statutes.
This was an advertised program. Nothing should surprise American allies. But it was easier to hope that there could be a momentum in the old order than to work as living in the new one. Now European leaders jump to convene the summit, scraping the sides of their damaged defense budgets, the bending of atrophied military muscles in a panic gesture of continental solidarity.
He doesn’t go back to Darcy’s world. The idea that human rights are universal and the principle that no one exists above the law loses the ground floor of the senior axiom – great nations stand out tribute from smaller ones; Rules Strongman makes rules.
Through these existential challenges, it is difficult to avoid an anesthetic balst in nostalgia, briberalization at the end of the 90s and early 21. centuries as the golden age of the liberal-democratic primacy. In reality, it was a pleasant balloon around one generation in one corner of the world: historic fluke. To move on, we must come through denial, anger and other phases of sadness on acceptance. We need to recognize that we live for the foreseeable future in the world without friends in the White House, and that this indicates the fate of Britain much closer to Europe.
And we need politicians who will dare to say as much aloud as possible. And this happened something that fell as I left the cinema last weekend. Maybe we have leaders capable of expressing the size of the crisis, and stretching for a challenge, I wouldn’t have to look for messages of comfort between the rows of Bridget Jones’s diary.
2025-02-19 06:00:00
