Sunday, July 12, 2009

Pride and Prejudice


It never came to my mind that my first post on movie would be on an English film... (as I like Japanese drama so much...) Since small, I was told that literary film will never be interesting, and horror and action movies will always be a big hit in cinemas. I believed that as I was always being scared and stunned by the actions and horrifying scenes but never try to even exposed myself to a literary film before. How silly I am... Tonight, thank to my curiosity, I watched "Pride and Prejudice" 2005 version. I know "Pride and Prejudice" is the most famous work by Jane Austen since I was in secondary school, but shamefully, I never read the book.

The story was set at the time when ranking among the English society is important. The rich cannot marry the poor and so on... (just like in many other countries that time) If the daughter in a family able to get married, it would be of great rejoice by the family or even the whole neighborhood, because the family will have less burden afterward. If a man is willing to marry a girl, there will be no reason or excuse for the girl to reject. However, the writer was successful to break this tradition in her story by TRUE LOVE among the gentlemen and ladies.

In the story, 'true love' saved the relationship from pride and prejudice; and pride and prejudice were the first impressions of the gentleman "Mr Darcy" by "Elizabeth". From an article I read, "First Impressions" was the initial name the writer give to this wonderful piece of work. The title "First Impressions" may suit the story very well, but in my opinion, may be the writer wanted us not to forget the bad impact that would be brought to ourselves and the people around us with just our pride and prejudice.

From this moment onwards, I swear I would never go for a horror movie when I'm boring. That will only costs me another night of insomnia. Good movie like "Pride and Prejudice" not only filled up my spare time, it also let me learn something useful in my life, at the same time, enjoying the breathtaking scenes of England in the movie. There were so many attempts of movies made based on popular literature. The most recent will be the Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. In opposite, I've read the book but not watched the movie... (It was that H1N1, make me scare for going into crowded cinema) Although I've read many comments about "Da Vinci Code" movie before, but I still believed that as long as the story of the original work is good, and in the movie, the story has not altered much, that movie will be very nice to be enjoyed. ^^


2 comments:

  1. hi,my old friend, came here from my penseive.... i like this movie very much too.... i like this story... n i actually re-watch this movie several times .... haha....

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  2. I think this is the most interesting love story I ever watched... haha ^^

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