I wouldn't have watched it if I hadn't known the plot was identical to Pride and Prejudice---extraordinary and outstanding man and woman who misunderstand each other and are artificially mean to each other are truly and honestly get together in the end and ever after, a ridiculous sister to the hero, a nice father to the heroine, and everything.But, fortunately, I didn't know it, so I had no chance of missing this beautiful movie.
Pride and Prejudice is too thin as a love story only, while in this movie we don't only see the two players sitting in the middle of a room reading lines out but also see the whole picture and the dimensions of the room. All the characters have stories of their own and are not just decorations on the backdrop.
For people, like me, who despise romances in movies, what this movie would move them is, of course, not the last scene where the hero and heroine coincidentally meet at a train station and start kissing after some small talk. Other characters could impress them as well.
The person who impressed me most was the mother of the gentleman. That she cares for her son is not deniable and commonplace when it comes to what a mother would do for a son. But the part I like most is when she talks so frankly about her son's affection for the girl. She knows it's the time she'd lose her son to this girl and stops her son from visiting the girl then, saying, " I'm sure she will take you from me." That is why I didn't want you to see her today. I wanted one last evening to be the first of your affections. I will have to change the initials on your linens. They will bear her name now, hers and yours...." When her son thinks this girl is too good for him, she encourages him, " Don't be afraid, John." Well, that's what I think the greatest thing a mother could tell her son in the situation that she might lose him for evermore.
It's interesting that you can tell the first man who appears and proposes to the heroine isn't the hero of the story. You would start by thinking, "Is this the hero?" Oh, no, he is way too smart-looking and not handsome at all, and you would hope it would not end up with him being really the hero, which could be a tragedy in terms of the time you waited to download this movie. Fortunately, you guessed right, and the real hero is a great deal more handsome. So long, everything has been worthwhile!I started getting obsessed with British accents, which I know must be some kind of hopelessly everlasting curse.
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