一个购物狂的自白

The first word to say, which is exactly how I feel, is that this movie is a rehabilitation way for most of shop-a-holics to go, and it needs someone to understand it.

At the very beginning of the movie, Rebecca had made clear her indulgence in shopping. In the other side of the shop windows, there's another world. A world where the most beautiful delicate encounter takes place. And she had some words that completely hit me.

You can never exchange your lover for a gorgeous cashmere sweater within 7 days.

How can a lover ever be compared to shopping?! When he's with you, he doesn't necessarily bring you fantastic clothes and jewellery and things like that, but when you break up, he doesn't even give you a sweater. You don't have anything, if you do, it's a broken heart. Who'd ever make a money-losing deal like that?! I mean, being in the shop center, you find yourself in a new world. Everything is brand new, fashion forward and glittering, and they also smells good. Moreover, just a punch of your credit card and they're all yours. It feels like the whole world coming back to you. Your desire for things and your satisfaction of getting them can overcome any kind of sadness. It brings back all your self-respect and the confidence to live a fabulous life, telling you how gorgeous you are. This is when you find it a must to be there, shopping. It's like an addiction.

If you're not a shop-a-holic and you don't feel the same as I do, there's no need for you to read on. You'll never understand the heartbreaking feeling when you have to break up with all those shopping centers and everything you love. You'll never understand the desperation when you find yourself having nothing left because of the unreasonable thirst for luxury. You build your own prison and you lock yourself up in your carnal desires. It's such a great beat that there are tears running in your eyes. Now you admit the fact that it's a bad thing and you're a coward who can never fight against yourself.

This movie is the right brand of give-up-smoke candy for most of the shop-a-holics, at least the ones like me. Cut the knot, and made the decision. That's what to do to move on in life. You need to smash everything into pieces to live a better life.

And for those who aren't shop-a-holics, or those who don't understand the attraction of fashion, you just don't have the right to say anything negative about the movie. Since you've never been into it, you'd never know how to get out.