Transfiguration

So when I wrote a couple of years ago that Sex and the City was a superhero show (and movie) for women, I didn't expect that to become literal.  But I have no idea how else to interpret these publicity shots for the movie (captions are by the ladies at Jezebel, from whence these are snagged).  The girls seem to be in actual high-fashion superhero drag.  I do recognize the ridiculousness of this.  It is insane, it is consumptive, it is obnoxious.  But I kind of love the transcendent absurdity at work here.  These ladies are out of orbit.  They are, as Kathy Bates declared in Primary Colors "outside the mainstream."  And that's how you get to superheroes.  You start with cartoonish people beating someone up, or being chivalrous, or whatever.  And then magic happens, and you make the leap.