That's just flattening women into aspirational plot devices again, and forcing an unrealistic and unfair idea of perfection that nobody can achieve.
Not much work was required to make Populaire, which started life with several French production companies, fit for purpose: this glassy-eyed tale of a plucky typist (Deborah François), with its mechanically aspirational plot, cute retro rhythms and New York finale, is pleading to be exported.
At times Straub's sunny cast on such issues as midlife crisis, infidelity, and financial disaster seems unrealistic, redolent of the aspirational, bubblegum plots of so-called "chick lit".
A federal law enforcement official described the plot as "aspirational" — meaning that the suspects wanted to do something but had no weapons or explosives — and described the operation as a sting with a cooperator within the group.
PARIS — European and American officials said Wednesday that they had detected a variety of credible threats from terrorist groups in Pakistan and northern Africa targeting European capitals, but said they did not consider an attack imminent and described the plots as largely aspirational.
The author of marriage-plot novels so aspirational they've caused generations of women to swoon, Jane Austen has come to symbolize unadulterated sentimentality in our culture.
"We have no specific information to confirm that this plot has developed beyond aspirational planning," Ms. Kudwa said.
Our correspondent said he believed the plot had moved from the aspirational stage to actual planning.
Inelegantly linking many half-baked stories through coincidence and far-fetched plotting, Mother's Day works as an aspirational film for the most boring people alive.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the plot is believed to have moved from the aspirational stage to actual planning.
