Implicit & Symptomatic Meaning

The movie Bride Wars is a film about two best friends who have dreams as children to get married at an ideal venue at the Plaza Hotel. Coincidental both women get proposed to by their boyfriends on the same day and of course both women want to have their weddings at the Plaza Hotel but realistically one of the women will have to give up their dreams of having their wedding at the venue. The Plaza Hotel is a very popular place to have a wedding and the only two avaliable spots proves this. Not only are there just two avaliable spots for the rest of the year, both of the times are the same as well. Neither one of the women want to give up their dreams of having their wedding at the Plaza Hotel and they make this evident throughout the movie. (IMDb)
Both women work extremely hard to sabotage each others wedding since they both agreed to not attend each other's wedding because of the wedding date and location (The Plaza). This also played a huge role in the decision making that their friends have. Having the same friends in the same circle began to cause a critized loop because both women would talk about each other to their mutual friends, this was just one of the things that these woman do to annoy one another.  Emma delibrately sent Liv chocalate everyday to her office to make her gain weight so it would become difficult for her to fit into her wedding dress. Liv sabatages Emma spray tan by changing the color of the tan to an extremem burnt orange. The list of these sabatoges goes on and on.

Liv (Kate Hudson) is a lawyer that has a very dynamic attitude. Every since both women were little girls

Liv has been the one that always mostly got what she wanted under most of the circumstances. Emm(Anne Hathaway) is a teacher that is more laid back and less confrontational than Liv. Emma wants to prove to Liv that she isn't a push over and that he deserves her wedding at the Plaza more than she does. The funny comedy is a film that I definitely reccomend watching, it will keep you at the edge of your seat wanting more.

The symptomatic meaning of a film deals with the signifigance of the film as a whole feeding off of social and historical contexts. The signifigance of this film doesn't become evident until the end when Liv and Emma fight in their  wedding gowns at Liv's wedding because Liv replaces Emma's wedding song with a wild college video of Emma. While fighting both women began to cry and realize that a wedding is one day of your life but a friendship is a life time. Thinking about how long and far these two women have came together while knowing one another plays a huge factor in why fighting is not worth it when valuing a relationship on any kind.
The implicit meaning is basiclly the interpretation of the film in general. The interaction between the two women and the content of their relationship when the feud first began with the women. Both women came off as very individualistic and determined. The determination of these women was the main concept of the film, when you want something as bad as The Plaza it proves that you never know the lengths that you may actually go to get what you want.

Sources:

Hathaway, Anne, and Kate Hudson, perf. Bride Wars. 2009. Fox 2000 Pictures. DVD.

IMDb. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec. 2011. <www.imdb.com>.