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An Attempt to Make Sense of the Jennifer Lopez Wedding Industrial-Complex Canon
The JLOWICC is a complex universe filled with dead mothers, worried best friends, sad dinners, and machetes.
Viewed as a cohesive canon, and growing qualitatively frailer over time, Lopez’s wedding-planning films expose the charms and limitations of the genre — and of buying into the wedding industrial complex itself. Both experiences can be fun and diverting, even romantic, but when pushed too far, become stressful, repetitive, claustrophobic, and unimaginative, and offer diminishing returns, spawning lesser iterations of themselves across time like a series of increasingly glitchy, monstrously expensive clones. Kat flies to Charlie’s math competition in Peoria, Illinois, and asks him to marry her, despite the fact that he has spent the entire movie shitting on her chosen profession and acting like a sleep-paralysis demon.
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