Pride and Prejudice

What a prefect movie. I really mean it. Of all the film adaptions I have seen, having read the source book, this is the most accurate and the best cross-over. Despite all reason or probability, Kiera Knightly is fantastic, she brings Elizabeth Bennet to life without attributing to her feminism or any other modern ideas not found within the original pages. She is both sweet and bitter, she is heartfelt, she is arrogant, and she is a perfect representation of Jane Austen's glorious heroine. The supporting cast is sensational, especially Dame Judi Dench as Lady Catherine De Bourg, and the entire Bennet family. Mr. Darcy was as key as Elizabeth in terms of getting it all right, fortunately Matthew MacFadyen does as great a job as Kinghtly, if not better. He portrays exactly what Austen wrote Darcy as, aloof and cold at first, but struggling with the fact that he is in love with someone who does not at first love him back, and cannot understand things from his point of view. The whole film looks and feels as if it was just lifted off the pages of the novel and run through the projector. The settings are superb, as the costumes and color palate, I kind of wished, while I was watching, that people still had the chance to wear such smashing clothing as often as they did back then. This is director Joe Wright's first film and I must say spot on Joe, and a standing ovation. If he does not continue his career with great success it will be a crime against entertainment. His skill for presenting such elaborate scenes as well as such intimate ones is so evident that you'd actually have to be blind, as in unable to view things with your eyes, to deny his grand talent for his art. As well as being anything else, this is the greatest romance to hit the silverscreen in years, and easily the best big-screen Jane Austin to ever be made. It is about two people who both have faults, but they change each other, and better each other, so that in the end they are in love but not just for money, good looks, or juvenile infatuation. This is a movie that can only be disliked by people who succumb to its titled faults. You would have to be prejudiced against romances, or to prideful to allow yourself to admit you liked it, to actually not enjoy Pride and Prejudice. I can say no more except to tell you to see it, take your wife, your husband, your boyfriend, your girlfriend (Guys if you know what's good for you), or just take your self, it is worth it in every way. Whether you've read it or not, just go, You won't have a chance like this in a long time, I can almost guarantee it.

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