Well it's just a novel

Pierce 2022-03-22 09:02:05

Mix Dickens with Hollywood and the story gets a little contrived.
But the first love and all the unreasonable women around the hero have a strange beauty.
But the film itself fails to express these aesthetics, and what is worse, the story drives the protagonists to various superficial scenes, just to tell the audience where the story is in a hurry and cramp.

If it weren't for the beauty of the hero and heroine, the beauty of the first love, the beauty of the deserted house, the beauty of the ideal world and the great future, and the beauty of all the stories created in the audience's heart, this movie would be a complete waste.

Four stars for the sea outside the window.

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Great Expectations quotes

  • Finn: Seven years passed, I stopped going to Paradiso Perduto, I stopped painting. I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.

  • Finn: The night all of my dreams came true, and like all happy endings,It was a tragedy, Of my device, for I succeeded. I had cut myself loose from Joe, from the past, from the gulf, from poverty I had invented myself. I'd done it cruelly, but I had done it. I was free!