Maggie’s scheme is about destiny,single parenthood and the soul-destroying logistics of contemporary relationships. Oh – and it’s also a screwball comedy starring Greta GerwigRebecca Miller’s original film looks as lightweight as they come. Its a screwball comedy about a woman who organises to have a baby with a sperm donor but at the same time falls for a married man. There’s a sassy best friend and lots of shots of the original York skyline. Jokes about condoms and the description of someone as a “panty-melter”. If you didn’t know better, you might mediate it stars Katherine Heigl.
But beware: beneath the froth of Maggies scheme lies grit. And, and under that,a thick layer of metaphysics, informed by pre-Enlightenment theories of self-determination. That gag about condoms, or for instance,comes when one character dismisses language qualifiers such as “like” for diminishing rhetorical discourse. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com