Tibby is the only friend who stays home in Bethesda, Maryland, for the summer, and she has a healthy dose of scorn ready for all the people from her hometown, whom she sees as ridiculous losers. The athletic, daring friend who spends the summer at soccer camp in Baja California, Mexico. Bridget is impulsive, courageous, and a little reckless, but her extroversion and high spirits help her to make friends easily.
Bridget falls in love with a coach named Eric, an experience that leaves her devastated. The shy, beautiful friend who travels to Oia, Greece, to spend the summer with her grandparents. Lena is introverted and quiet, happiest when she can spend time alone and paint. She distrusts all boys, certain they like her only for her looks, and she automatically writes off Kostos, the Greek boy her grandmother tries to set her up with.
Her inability to open up to people leads her to make a confusing mess out of an unexpected encounter she has with Kostos. However, his efforts to spare Carmen pain actually make things worse. Her ex-husband is a recovering alcoholic. Lydia does her best to be kind to Carmen, but she struggles to truly connect with her. She has no contact with her father. Paul rarely speaks, but he proves to be a friend of sorts to Carmen.
He visits his father, a recovering alcoholic, every month. A twelve-year-old girl with leukemia. Bailey's storyline turns the otherwise upbeat film into an all-out bawl fest. To kill off a minor character isn't just harsh, but it also seems a little contrived since the sole reason for Bailey's presence in the film seems to be to aid in Tibby's character growth.
All hail Carmen! While her rant during her bridesmaid dress fitting might not have been the best timed, it was totally justified. Her stepmom-to-be seems pretty taken aback that Carmen would yell at her — in a public place no less — but Carmen is only paying her the same consideration that she was given. It wasn't Carmen's fault that her dad gave his bride the wrong dress size for Carmen or that the dress didn't fit her. Instead of telling Carmen that it'll all be okay and that they'll have it fitted properly, Carmen's future stepmom is worried that they won't be able to get Carmen and her daughter, Krista the other bridesmaid , looking "uniform.
Carmen's speech is empowering. Not only does she finally get to vent her feelings about not having been told about the upcoming wedding, but she also delivers a pretty awesome message on body positivity. It's a powerful scene delivered by a powerful character. Carmen is a role model for any woman who has ever felt uncomfortable in her own skin. It's one thing for Bridget to say she's 17 instead of 16 when she sets her eyes on one of her camp counselors, but it's another for him to actually go along with the flirtation instead of shutting it down.
As a counselor, he presumably can access the records of campers. It would have been easy for him to look up Bridget's age.
Even if Bridget was 17, that would still make her a minor, and Eric, who is in college, is almost certainly over This not only makes them sleeping together wildly inappropriate but also possibly illegal.
Whose idea was it to have an attractive young man coaching a camp full of underage girls just a couple years younger than him anyway? Surely there were women who could have taken the job. At the end of the film, Eric tells Bridget she's too young for him but then tells her to look him up when she's 20, which is creepy beyond measure.
Kostas is cute, but is he really cute enough for Lena to risk alienating herself from her family? She's risking a lot by hanging out with him in spite of her grandparents' wishes. While their reasons for not wanting Lena to associate with Kostas are pretty childish and petty, the fact remains that they're her family and Kostas is, well, just a summer fling. First loves die hard, though.
Lena is, for better or for worse, determined to risk it all for a boy she may very well never see again once the summer is over. He's in college, and she's about to go back to high school in America, so the likelihood of their relationship continuing is slim. But hey, this is a teen movie, so Lena, in true teenage fashion, stands up to her grandparents so she can meet Kostas for one last kiss. Not really. Ultimate teen movie moment? At the risk of repeating ourselves, we ask Bridget is heartbroken after leaving soccer camp and Eric, and she is bedridden with grief.
While she seems to be suffering from a major bout of depression, her dad is nowhere to be seen. After Lena reads a letter from Bridget, she alerts the other members of the sisterhood that their friend is in dire need of some support. While they manage to cheer her up a little bit, Bridget's problems seem a bit more serious than some boy trouble.
Given what she has said about her mother's mood swings , it seems quite likely that she suffers from a mental illness that might be hereditary. Carmen and Tibby tell her that she's stronger than her mother, who committed suicide, as if this will magically cure her.
What Bridget really needs, though, is a therapist who can come up with a treatment plan. Even if she doesn't have a mental illness, she's clearly still struggling to cope with her mother's death and could benefit from professional therapy. The romantic relationships in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants leave a lot to be desired.
The same can be said for the relationships between the girls and their parents and grandparents. Some of these relationships are downright toxic, and the only healthy albeit sometimes imperfect relationship in the movie is between the girls themselves. Aside from Carmen's relationship with her dad, though, the movie doesn't really touch on how these relationships can grow and improve.
This seems pretty odd for a coming-of-age movie. By the end of the film, we're left with a lot of unresolved conflicts among the characters, but at least the sisterhood is stronger than ever. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a testament to the power of female friendship, and that's refreshing in a teen movie. Even though Lena gets a parting kiss with Kostas, their romance isn't the center of the film: the friendship between Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen is. She is also the most daring and courageous, often acting on impulse rather than reason.
She usually does not think twice before doing something no matter how dangerous it is. During the trial, she changed her pants outside of the fitting room and did not care revealing her underwear and legs to her friends. She is noticeably closer to her friends than her immediate family.
Despite seeming to be the strongest of the four, she is actually the most vulnerable, often making self-destructive decisions when the consequences of her actions prove to be too much. Carmen, Lena and Tibby, Bridget's best friends since birth often worry about Bridget because of her impulsive decisions. Bridget's nickname is 'Bee'. Bridget is also hardworking.
In the Second Summer of the Sisterhood she arrives at her grandmother, Greta's, home in Alabama and works tirelessly in the attic, transforming it into a bedroom. Marly and Bridget have many things in common like their intensity and beauty but Marly is described by Greta as giving up too easily. Bridget's most notable physical characteristic is the long, yellow blonde hair that she inherited from her mother and grandmother.
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