I sit here in the thunder, the green on the grey

[sovay]

Me: I should rewatch Sense and Sensibility (1995). It might pair illuminatingly with Persuasion (1995); I haven't seen it in nine years and I've never written about it; I saw it for the first time in 1996 with someone who didn't like it. That was a point in my life when I saw very few movies and did not think critically about them if I did. Those can be interesting to revisit.

*half an hour of movie later*

My critical faculties: FUCK, Alan Rickman is BEAUTIFUL.

Ladies and gentlepeople, that may be the review.

Comments

[rmc28]

I think my favourite part is when everyone but her stomps into their respective bedrooms slamming the door, while she is bringing tea for one of them (her mother?) and she kind of sighs and sits on the stairs to drink it. "Yes, life is shit, but wasting this tea or throwing a fourth tantrum isn't going to help, so I guess I'll drink the tea and see if I can cope with things when I'm done".

Also the way she finally finally breaks down into tears at the end.

When I first saw it, I wasn't quite 20, and I very much *aspired* to respond to personal tragedy like Elinor (minor as the personal tragedies of my life were then!), but had the lowering suspicion I was actually a Marianne.

[kore]

Aww, Marianne is my girl (I actually had an icon that said "Marianne Dashwood is my homegirl" at one point, LOL).