with some sweet warm water

Calista 2022-04-22 07:01:53

I liked the story of Peter Rabbit and wanted to write a dissertation on Miss Potter, so I found this movie. The opening of the story is very grand, like the opening of a classic movie. However, I have been waiting, waiting, waiting for the climax to come, but I have waited for the end of the film. Looking back on the entire film, the actors' acting skills are pure, the background music is soft, the costumes and props and other details are all without problems, and the standards are in the ranks of business cards. So what went wrong, I think it was probably the script.
The screenwriter wants to talk too much. In this short 88 minutes, the screenwriter wants to talk about Miss Potter's struggle history, her love life, and even her contribution to the environment of the British Lake District, but her skills are not enough. , which made the plot very loose. In order to finish all his thoughts in the two-hour movie, I had to simplify them, so it seems that Miss Potter's life is too smooth, except for the sudden death of the male protagonist, whether she is seeking publication as a woman , the struggle for freedom of marriage, or the struggle for land with developers, dramatic conflicts are simply not enough. In terms of style, he wanted to use the literary and aesthetic style of Peter Rabbit to tell the story of the author himself, but that kind of innocence is very difficult. If you do it well, it will indeed raise the style; The story lacks interest. So, this film finally turned into a cup of lukewarm water.
If you take this film as a description of the anti-traditional struggles of female writers in the early days of the British printing and publishing industry, you can, but the large number of love scenes and life descriptions in the play dilute the story line of Miss Potter's idea of ​​creating Peter Rabbit; if Taking this film as a biopic describing the life of Beatrix, it lacks some important bridges such as the publishing struggles of the former heroine who met the Norman family publishing house; if it is regarded as a romance film, the weight of the male protagonist is not enough. On the whole, this film can be regarded as one of the above-mentioned types of themes, but it is not enough if you think about it carefully. It's like a cup of tea with too much honey and too much hot water to reconcile it, resulting in four dissimilarities.
This film is given 4 points, the plot is only worth 3 points, and the other point is for the wasted actors' acting skills, background music, and the beautiful scenery of the lake area.

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Extended Reading

Miss Potter quotes

  • Rupert Potter: Our daughter is famous, Helen. You're the only person who doesn't know it.

  • Beatrix Potter: [voiceover] There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.