Why these women owe their career to John Cheever.
A pretty comprehensive review of Sex in the City 2 that misses one, important fact: Sex in the City 2 was not an original screenplay, but an adaptation of a short story by John Cheever entitled: “The women who went to the desert and died there.” The film takes a few liberties with the plot (spoiler alert: only one of the women dies in the movie), but is pretty faithful to the story’s central concern, which is not actually about science fiction (as the referenced review brilliantly suggests), but rather a strange thought experiment that plagued Cheever throughout his life: If God is all-powerful, could he create a world so vapid even he couldn’t find meaning in it?
The question led Cheever to reject religion, but grow increasingly obsessed with shoes–it said he had over 725 pairs when he dies.
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