It is a shockingly radical act to put a woman with a body like Rebel Wilson’s in the starring role without making it the focus
“They don’t make movies about girls like us.” That’s what the character Natalie hears from her mother when she’s just an eager child, pressing her nose against the TV to watch the guy get the girl in a romantic comedy. In the opening scene of the new comedy Isn’t It Romantic, which recently landed on Netflix and this week became the platform’s third-most-streamed film ever, we quickly understand two things: we have all internalised ideas about romance from movies, and so has the character we’re about to spend 90 minutes with.
Romantic comedies offer up fantasies for our consumption. To win in a rom-com, a straight, usually white, almost always thin woman is singled out, plucked from obscurity to become a princess or pop star, or simply chosen by a handsome lead whose attention and affection is all she needs and desires. These women are seen and made to feel special.
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