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itspileofgoodthings · 1 year ago

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@joons Chelsea this is so funny I’m going to SCREAM

this movie HATES that it has to deal with plot it just wants vibes but it's Austen so everything is connected and it can't get away from plot no matter what it does

#oh my gosh it’s soooo true. a gorgeous moment in itself. the shot of her on the cliffs and then her face!!!#but there should be so much weighing her down and occupying her heart and mind #that we should see so clearly. But we don’t know who Wickham is and we don’t know why it’s a big deal that Darcy has cleared his name #with regard to him. and elizabeth’s discomfort with the painful awakening she’s just had are simply not present #and when you know all the backstory you CAN fill it in! But the movie doesn’t even want you to feel the emotions that would elicit #they want you to feel something else instead #it’s never hit me so forcefully before how badly it wants to be a basic period piece where the plot IS just sort of a loose structure #upon which vibes can be built. can’t even think of an example but those ones where you know stuff happens but you never remember what #even when the credits roll. you’re like ‘yeah yeah there was a duel and a lost brother and an evil dad and some Money Stuff’#but mostly Romance #but P&P is so LOUD about the plot in the best way it just KEEPS intruding and it’s so funny #because sometimes the plot is why the movie works in flashes! there are times where the right feeling lines up with the plot #(the fun of Pemberley is not wholly absent!)#but mostly the movie despises the story and wishes it wasn’t quite so crass and human #and of course the story ISN’t crass not in the least but it’s grounded in reality so deeply #you can’t block the sunshine out or all the bright colors and hard lines—this movie keeps trying to pull the shades and mute all the colors #it wants to soften everything to the hue of keira Knightley’s eyes and a lens flare sunrise #but you gotta keep those hard edges in there. It makes it funnier and at the end of the day more romantic #I’m rambling #But yeah to bring it back around. you just gotta tie it to the plot and have the plot be the reason you care #likely thing for the plot to do if we just let it aksksksjsjjsjs

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