Grace Heriegel

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The iconic Bridget Jones trilogy will always hold a place in my heart as hilarious, relatable and joyful films which I’ve always watched with my mother and sister. The announcement of a fourth movie brings so much joy to me, yet also begs the question: Will we fall back in love with the charms of our beloved rushed English woman?

The Bridget Jones movies brought us this iconic character: a rushed English woman constantly being clumsy and never ‘perfect’, which was refreshing in a world where everyone is obsessed with perfection. Bridget Jones is a character who represents so many women who felt like they weren’t noticed and appreciated in the entertainment industry.

The introduction of a fourth movie so long after the last one brings so many questions to light. In Bridget Jones Baby, she was still the same character bringing sarcasm and chaotic demeanour to the screen, yet there wasn’t the same aesthetics as the first few movies. Are we going to see a revival of this chaotic soul or are we going to see something new, especially with the age difference were faced with?

These cheesy romcoms may seem like ‘silly women movies’ that plenty of stereotypes say, but it’s representation for women who feel like they are failing at life when really they just aren’t there yet. You don’t need to be twenty and a millionaire to be successful, you can be fourty, single and a mess but with love around you, and that’s real success.

Now the love interests have been revealed as Hugh Grant and Leo Woodall, but where is Mark Darcy? Upon researching the books the films are based on, he passes away and Bridget is left with her two children as a widow. This it would explore the grief and the struggle back into the dating world as an older woman. I think I would personally prefer this storyline compared to a messy divorce especially following Mark and Bridget’s love story. Perhaps the perfect marriage can be perfect until death do you part.

I don’t know about you, but I’m very excited for this fourth movie not only for Bridget’s chaotic and hilarious personality to come back, but also to see where this film will leave us, where the aesthetics will lie and what situation Bridget will end in. I find that the third movie was the perfect ending which life never usually grants us with, so perhaps this is exactly what we needed to put the series to rest.