Although it was adapted from a novel, I had never read the novel before watching the movie Pride and Prejudice, and I have not read it until now.
Of course, this allows it to be seen more purely as a movie, without being influenced by the original. Good or bad, it's just the movie itself.
Released in 2005, Douban scored 8.6 points, ranking 140th in the Top 250, which is a film favored by movie fans. But I think that this rating is somewhat influenced by the original work.
Excellent literary works need time to precipitate, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is undoubtedly a very good novel, after hundreds of years of inheritance, this novel is still a treasure in the temple of literature, which shows its achievements.
But for the movie, I don't think it's very brilliant.
It was the debut of British director Joe Knight, and the film did make him famous. Check out the list of his works, most of his works with a strong British retro flavor.
In addition to "Pride and Prejudice", the director's other work, "Atonement", has also been appreciated by fans. Actress Kayla Knightley appears to be his royal heroine, mostly in several of his successful works.
Back to the movie Pride and Prejudice.
The film is not so good, lies in the two major themes of pride and prejudice, the film does not highlight Darcy's arrogance, nor does it play elizabeth's prejudice, and even this pair of lovers love is somewhat inexplicable.
To say that the two are love at first sight may be some truth, but the love expressed in the film always makes people feel less pure.
Darcy's blindness to Elizabeth's love at first sight is like Stoner's impulse to Edith in the novel "Stoner", but he can vaguely see the tragedy of sudden enlightenment after marriage.
And Elizabeth's change of heart will make people feel that it is only because Darcy silently helped her sisters with money, and has to be reminiscent of everything Song Siming did for seaweed in the TV series "Snail House". Therefore, Elizabeth finally wanted to be with Darcy because of the other party's family situation.
I think that in the film's presentation, Darcy and Elizabeth's love is destined to be a tragedy.
Let's not talk about this unpopular love, but I want to talk about Mrs. Bennet.
The mother, who gave birth to four daughters, was always a city servant, and I had to wonder if the theme of the film seemed to expose the world style of that era.
Mrs. Bennet is the main driving force behind the story, and her life's goal is to marry all four of her daughters into the rich. She is short-sighted, but her face is extremely thick. And indeed, she strives for her goals, operates hard, and does everything to the extreme.
"Lord Bennet, have you heard?" Niederfeld Manor was finally rented out. Don't you want to know who rented it? ”
Mrs. Bennett's appearance is a very noisy image of a rude village woman. After learning that there was a Golden King elder in the town, he hurriedly urged her husband to visit.
Loving a woman is heartfelt, and Ben is beyond reproach. It's just that eager face, it's a little shameless.
At the ball, Mrs. Bennett eagerly introduced her four daughters to Mr. Bentley and Mr. Darcy; Mrs. Bennet was ecstatic to learn that Jane had to stay at Mr. Bentley's house because of her rainfall; she did not even miss any opportunity to contact the upper class, and took her daughters to the door to ask Mr. Bentley to hold the ball again.
At this time, she was like a black-hearted businessman, peddling her daughter everywhere like a commodity.
When she learned that her nephew Collins was going to inherit the entire inheritance, and that the short and frustrated nephew had a crush on Elizabeth, but her daughter had no feelings for her, Mrs. Bennet forced her daughter to marry by threatening to break off the mother-daughter relationship.
At this time, she is more like an old bustard who is forced to be a prostitute, and uses all means to push a yellow flower girl into the fire pit.
I can't help but think of the humble face of Guo Xiaoqi's parents in "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" when they face Li Guohua, who is abusing his daughter. In the face of the pressure of the disparity between the rich and the poor, he completely lost his stature, and allowed his own and even his daughter's self-esteem to be trampled on wantonly.
Mrs. Bennet is the main operator of the family, but it is precisely under such a false upbringing that the four daughters' concept of love is bound to be pathological, including our heroine, Elizabeth.
The four daughters had been indoctrinated from an early age with the idea of marrying into the magnates, so when they learned that the new owner of the Niederfeld Manor was earning five thousand pounds a year, they were equally excited to urge their father to take them to the ball.
So even though Jane was married to Mr. Bentley, she still couldn't be satisfied. Therefore, Lydia did not hesitate to elope with him in order to marry Wickham. Therefore, Elizabeth's love for Mr. Darcy is not particularly noble, if Mr. Darcy is not a rich man with an annual income of ten thousand pounds, he may not be able to enter Elizabeth's eyes.
The moment Elizabeth saw Mr. Darcy, all that attracted her was the aura of great wealth behind him. At least at that ball, Mr. Darcy's unsmiling face and unsmiling sluggish face were difficult to associate with their feelings.
For Elizabeth, the so-called entanglement in prejudice is nothing more than a self-requirement on the moral line of the mate selection standard. In this regard, Elizabeth is indeed more intelligent, or more ambitious, than the other sisters. At least it's not about measuring money as the only measure.
The world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is full of land, all are for profit.
This pride and prejudice, where is the sweetness of love? It was just a carnival feast for Cinderella's sisters. The flies camp dogs, their own means, and there is no victor in marriage, but each has its own magic.