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

[kore]

Oh, that's a must-see, altho for me not so much for Firth -- altho he's great -- but Jennifer Ehle is just about my perfect Elizabeth, and Crispin Bonham-Carter and Susannah Harker are the perfect Bingley and Jane. I've heard criticism it was a little too modernized, but people say that about the S&S movie too -- and I don't think of it so much as modernization, but maybe the kind of restoration of old paintings where you strip off all the dust and candle smoke and varnish and cleaning agents that were meant to "preserve" them.