Wait, Wendy and Lucy is Considered a Chick Flick?

Well, I had no clue, after watching the film and prior to starting this blog post, that Wendy and Lucy, is supposed to be a chick flick. But in any case, Wendy and Lucy is an obvious antidote to the traditional chick flick. First thing's first: taking into account that our reading for today lists such films as The Devil Wears Prada and The Princess Diaries as chick flicks, one obvious difference is the class of the main characters (assuming that the main characters of the latter films are upper class, as the reading suggests). Wendy is far from upper class, as is seen in her roughly $500 budget for her drive to Alaska that is shown with the pedestal shot of the money spent/the money left. Aside from that, she is sleeping in her car, and is driven to shoplift due to her lack of money, which is, of course, a vital part of the plot. Now, I haven't seen them (well, I did see The Princess Diaries as a wee lad at some point or another), but I'm guessing the main characters of traditional chick flicks do not have any of the same troubles as Wendy, nor do they really have to worry about much of anything, except for their own materialism. Meanwhile, Wendy spends the whole film just trying to get by, and find her dog in the process. And then, there is the heartbreaking ending, in which she decides to let Lucy have a nice life, rather than trying to keep up with feeding her, and all of those other taking-care-of-dogs responsibilities. The film sets a really great example for, well, anyone who watches it, as far as what is really important in this weird thing called life. It works as an antidote in its not falling victim to the classic chick flick, filled with expensive objects/"perfect" people that Hollywood likes to showcase.