This was slammin, and I don’t use that word lightly. Its deviations from the book both hurt and enrich it. On one hand, the economic and moral compromise of the Bennet family is exaggerated to a point of implausibility. Elizabeth Bennet is supposed to be from a upper middle-class background, which is already a huge leap from the Mr Darcy in Pemberley. The film slightly widens that economic divide (the Bennett’s house, with its muddy pigs and scruffy dog, the…
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Casablanca 1942
“What watch?
Ten watch.
Ah, such much.”
Heartrendingly, hilariously beautiful. And warming to know I’m the billionth person to enjoy. To laugh and cry at this film is to enter a communion with audiences of a century, whose smiles are my smiles and whose tears are my tears. A perfect film. So epic
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