People who like Syliva Plath shouldn't be attracted by her suicide success at the peak of her creation, let alone her eye-catching marriage with the famous poet Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath can only like her poems. The pain, coldness, beauty, and irresistible charm in the poem.
This film is so bad that it is too plot-like and star-like in Hollywood. The script is poorly written. The plot above set the tone for the whole film since Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes in 1956. Therefore, it is not surprising that Sylvia's youthful experience and her perseverance and perseverance will be ignored later. Sylvia's most famous collection of poems "Arial" is definitely written in her own blood. When she was in despair, her confessionalist poetry reached its peak. In addition to showing Sylvia's several calls to friends and neighbors for help, it does not describe how she woke up at three or four in the morning to write poems in the severe cold of London in 1963, began to take care of the children at six, and did daily housework, and she had to face the cold and the cold. The psychological torture of love and hatred for Ted Hughes. In the film, she is just a weak bitter woman. Especially when dealing with her final image, it was absolutely a failure. The film continues to show her as a Hollywood actress with lipstick, eyeliner, and blonde curled up. The real Sylvia was completely thin, haggard, and nervously pale.
Choosing Gwyneth to play Sylvia is definitely a big failure. Gwyneth's image is too elegant and feminine. Not to mention her real person, Syliva Plath reveals a dazzling cold light in her poems. She has a firm appearance, although she panicks and hesitates for the fragility and emptiness beneath her hard appearance. Gwyneth lacks this kind of perseverance. Among Hollywood actresses, only Nicole Kidman has that piercing light. Gwyneth also did not perform the charm of Sylvia, her movements are completely feminine and cute, without the atmosphere and heartiness of Sylvia Germanic blood.
Daniel Craig is indeed a bit like Ted Hughes. It also seems to be a bit of Ted Hughes' talent. I don't have much research on Ted Hughes, but I feel that the director focuses too much on the emotional conflict between him and Sylvia. Hughes's poetic genius of nature, his love of country life, and Syliva Plath's tolerance are not enough to describe.
But after watching it, I couldn't help crying for a long time.
The film finally mentions that Ted Hughes finally broke his silence 35 years after Sylvia's death and published "Birthday Letters", showing his attitude towards this relationship for the first time to the world. A few months later, Ted Hughes, who was already a lifetime poet laureate, passed away.
Regarding the combination of these two talented poets, rumors have long been ups and downs when Sylvia committed suicide. With the publication of Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar" and her diary, the outside world basically unanimously blamed Ted for Sylvia's death. Hughes. And Ted Hughes described in Sylvia's diary that many of his personal life details were exposed and never said a word about Syliva.
The life-and-death romance preferred by Hollywood screenwriters seems appropriate between Sylvia and Ted Hughes. It's just that the reality may be deeper. These two geniuses couldn’t help but point their needles to Maimang together, and Sylvia’s painful past made her unable to accept perfection, because she was too eager to get it, just like her own emptiness that she had been panicking, she was too afraid to lose . So she would rather choose to destroy it herself. She destroyed her marriage and ended her life, but left a poem that will never be forgotten.
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