One Sentence Movie Review: “Wuthering Heights”
Wuthering Heights (1939): "Love + Social Class is the most guaranteed tragedy equation in human history."
Seen: As part of an ongoing effort to see all 400 movies in the AFI 400.
132 to go!
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Years & years ago my then boyfriend B.J. & I saw this at in a revival (restored print or something) and at the end he turned to me, took my hands and said “DARling! LET’S marry OTHer people and be MISerable for the REST of our LIVES!”
I think the commentary may have been unappreciated by some of the weepier others in the audience.
Fortunately it turned out differently for us; sure we split up, but we omitted the miserable part, and that’s the key bit.
Years & years ago my then boyfriend B.J. & I saw this at in a revival (restored print or something) and at the end he turned to me, took my hands and said “DARling! LET’S marry OTHer people and be MISerable for the REST of our LIVES!”
I think the commentary may have been unappreciated by some of the weepier others in the audience.
Fortunately it turned out differently for us; sure we split up, but we omitted the miserable part, and that’s the key bit.
Dinah,
Hooray for amicable breakups!
Yeah, even though I find the internals of the love story compelling, even tragic, it all comes from a period where things like class, family, and living in windswept England could thwart romance.
the power of misery? A thesis topic in here somewhere.
Dinah,
Hooray for amicable breakups!
Yeah, even though I find the internals of the love story compelling, even tragic, it all comes from a period where things like class, family, and living in windswept England could thwart romance.
the power of misery? A thesis topic in here somewhere.