Film: "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"

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This paper analyzes the characters, castings and the setting of the film, "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". The paper first explains that the film is the story of four young women, who have been friends all their lives, and share one pair of pants that serves as a focal point throughout the film. The paper then describes the writer's emotional engagement with these characters. Although the film has had its critics, as noted in the paper, the writer states that the film was thoroughly entertaining, which she believes is the primary purpose of fictional cinema.

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"A more legitimate criticism is the above-mentioned element of time, as mentioned by King. While the elements of connection make up for this flaw, it is nonetheless true that there is too little time to bring out the full potential of the story. There are simply too many main characters with too many individual problems. Indeed, this very fact is at the basis of the extremely negative criticism launched by O'Sullivan and particularly Bradshaw. While I do not believe that their criticism is focused at the true problems of the film, one can however recognize that their reviews are not without grounds."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bradshaw, Peter. (2005, Aug 26). The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Review. The Guardian. http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,1556427,00.html
• The Internet Move Database. (1990-2008). Blake Lively. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515116/
• King, Tim. (2005, Dec 4). The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Review. http://bethestory.com/2005/12/04/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants
• O'Sullivan, Michael. (2005, June 3). 'Pants' with too much stretch. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060200833_pf.html
• Putman, Dustin. (2005, June1). The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Themovieboy.com (2001-2008). http://themovieboy.com/reviews/s/05_sisterhood.htm

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