Wakefield Comments

  • Cara 2022-10-02 08:04:49

    I feel that there are not many topics, but it is a bit boring. If you think about it carefully, you will hide nearby, and you will not find it by...

  • Teresa 2022-09-20 05:03:06

    It's pretty bold, but there is no ending! In fact, Lao Bai's thoughts are also shared by everyone. He wants to stay away from his family, leave work, and see what the world would be like without himself. In fact, the reality is that it's the same with or without...

  • Laila 2022-09-19 13:39:27

    Acting doesn't make up for this strange, futile...

  • Abe 2022-09-16 22:28:52

    Malcom's dad is good at...

  • Freeda 2022-09-12 03:32:17

    When a person is tired of his social role and social responsibility, he tries to...

  • Hannah 2022-08-19 16:09:50

    I give an extra point for this ending. He is a man who no longer has passion in his life....

  • Camden 2022-08-17 23:44:40

    The adaptation of Hawthorne’s "Wakefield", my favorite short story, the movie turns Wakefield into a scheming boy. In the novel, he is more sly and too narrow, but based on the 21st century, nothing can be mysterious. In the end, the film stopped at the moment when Howard and his family got together. The screenwriter didn’t know how to end it. In the novel, the husband returned after 20 years of absence. The couple did not make a big fuss, but lived together...

  • Veronica 2022-08-17 19:05:37

    Also known as "Gone Boy" and "Suburban Revenant" (Suburban...

  • Libby 2022-08-17 18:16:52

    Too much, the acting skills are useless. Based on an old short story of the same name by Nathaniel...

  • Makenzie 2022-08-17 18:04:47

    The most satisfying one I have seen during this time. The director is the screenwriter of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. No wonder the narration is so...

Extended Reading

Wakefield quotes

  • Howard Wakefield: People will say that I left my wife and I suppose, as a factual matter, I did, but where was the intentionality? I had no thought of deserting her.

  • Howard Wakefield: I never left my family. I left myself. Unshackled, I will become the Howard Wakefield I was meant to be.