#realizing that the power of love saving lizzie is unlikely kind of kills the mood

[apotheosphorus]

i love the 1995 pride and prejudice bbc adaptation but its also hard for me to get through at times cuz its kinda dystopian?

like the 2005 movie is dressed up in romantic cinematography and a beautiful soundtrack, so i kinda just turn off my brain and simp for kiera knightley, but as the 1995 is framed with more realism with less aesthetic trappings it visually and viscerally reminds me that the patriarchal realities the bennet girls and probably jane austen were constantly presented with were not fiction

like holy shit imagine never being able to wear pants, have hobbies youd like, become a scholar, or like, own physical shit, and your entire actual future depended on being able to sell their bodies in a most likely contractual marriage to incubate babies

and if you didnt get that your options to survive were pretty far and between and you were most likely fucked

it kinda kills the romanticism tbh

im sitting here watching jane lizzie and the other girls' entire lives revolve around men and convincing one to love them having no other way to occupy their time because everything they did then revolved around pleasing and become auxiliary to men in an existential sense

like yes mr darcy is the platonic ideal of a man and lizzie is legitimately so funny and smart without being a pickme like ms bingley and p and p is overall so meaningful in so many cultural aspects but holy SHIT its jarring to realize that there it could have gone a lot differently if not for the saving grace of the power of love