So, last night I was bored, watching this movie called "Jumping the Broom" and decided to write while I watched it...
I was thinking of summarizing the movie in a spoiler type of way...
(If you haven't seen the movie then, I recommend you don't read this, unless you wanted to of course.)
And... here's what came from it.
(I haven't edited it yet.)
“Jumping the Broom”…from my perspective.
So… This beautiful young adult is a bit promiscuous and tends
to have a habit of sleeping with her dates and regretting it in the morning.
She starts praying and asks for a sign pointing directly to the love of her
life, because she was not going to have sex until she found that guy in the
world… (That seems a bit extreme and controlling…) Anyways, she hits the love
of her life with her car and they do that 2 minute eye stare (where I’m
guessing it was the moment they started believing in love at first sight…)
So after dating for 5 (and I quote) “5 Incredible Months”
after going to an opera, she starts talking about moving to China because of a
job promotion and he realizes that it’s the right moment to propose marriage
because supposedly he wants to go with her as a team –slash- supportive
husband. (Even though he has a huge position in Goldman-Sachs which, actually
would make sense because he has a good job so he can afford all of it, and Asia
has GS branches… ok, I’m going back to the story.) Anyways, he puts a lot of
mystery and seriousness into the beginning of the wedding proposal that to her
(well, there was a tone…)it sounded like he was breaking up with her because he
didn’t seem like he wanted to go to China (Why so much drama in 5 months?).
After this, She gets sad and starts walking slowly until stopping in front of
(very convenient) a guy singing a love song while playing the piano… and a few
violinists playing next to him… So the boyfriend walks up to her, gives her a
rose, and continues giving her the proposal (now that I think of it, it was a
really long proposal!!) and after another paragraph, hey become engaged.
So, the wedding weekend comes and you have your rich vs. middle
class African-American families in the United States… (Yeah, I forgot to
mention, this is a movie that has African-American actors doing a stereotype,
cultural, educational, historical and comedic twist where racism exists in the
same race due to different values, places or simply where you were raised, even
though you’re the same skin color.)
The Girl’s family is the rich one, and the Guy’s family is
the one in Middle Class…So you have the girl’s mother running around, planning,
freaking out and answering stereotypical race questions from (the only one in
the movie and wedding) the white wedding planner. The bride is freaking out,
and in another city, the groom’s mother is getting pissed because the bride
keeps giving her instructions in text messages and she is on anger management
and constantly flipping out. (By the way, I’ve always liked wedding movies, I
don’t know why.) The
groom’s family has to take a ferry and she brings her best-friend, the carefree,
tall, happy, braided love machine… her flirty younger brother, and her green
eyed, clueless nephew.
A lot of non-important, things, details and random stuff that
would’ve been repeated and that’s why I’m not going to explain that part…
So the groom is mommy dependent, and the bride besides being
spoiled, is not her mother’s biological daughter… Her mother is the sexy,
looking young, kind of milfy, carefree, adventurous favorite aunt, younger
daughter of who she always believed was her real mother. This secret is
revealed by the groom’s mother who is an
angry child and wanted to ruin everything until she came to her senses in some
way…(I don’t blame her for everything, because it was her own son who was
neglecting and lying to her about the bride cancelling all opportunities to
meet each other.
So while that drama is happening, you have the maid of honor
ignoring every guy except the sexy, exotic, and aphrodisiac, experimenting new
things kind of chef (where she doesn’t know if she should throw away her ‘perfect
guy list’ and give this guy she’s clearly highly attracted to, a chance.) Then
you have the groom’s mother’s best friend being hit on by the groom’s youngest
college cousins in his bridal party… (He is hot.)And she clearly doesn’t want
to go to jail, but he keeps trying anyway (Perseverance.).
You also have the bride’s father coming home with his
secretary who acts like his mistress because he doesn’t want his wife to know
that because of bad investments, they lost all their money.
You also have the groom, and everybody else wondering why he
still haven’t had sex… because of the God promise that the bride made at the
beginning of the movie…
So, the truth is out, the bride runs, the groom goes crazy,
the mothers in law break down, and the bride comes back, ready to get married.
(The bride is very pretty as well.) They get married, everyone gets happy, the
chef stays with the maid of honor and the college boy gets to kiss the tall
best friend and get her email. And they jumped the broom.
(I forgot to explain why it’s called Jumping the Broom… sorry,
(laughing))
The movie is called that way because, according to history,
when black people where slaves and weren’t allowed to marry, they would
secretly do it anyway… they would do the ceremony and jump a broom to formalize
the union, and it stayed in Black wedding traditions throughout the years. So
in this movie, the groom’s mother, who was middle class, wanted the couple to
jump the same broom from her wedding and the other mother opposed because her
family, even though they’re black, claim that they weren’t slaves, (that in
fact “they owned slaves”) and therefore, they didn’t need to jump the broom or
follow any tradition.
