Film Analysis: Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a romantic comedy based on a novel by Helen Fielding. This movie follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a thirty-two year old British woman who has a fondness for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. After a drinking binge alone in her apartment during the holidays Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life, and start keeping a diary. The diary she thought would help her …

…turns out that he only left to go buy here a new diary to start a new life with him. They kiss in the snow, and are a couple at last. With a definite set up, plot point one, confrontation, plot point two, and resolution, Bridget Jones’s Diary follows Syd Field’s paradigm. The relationship between the parts of the paradigm is what holds the story in place and makes it a good movie.