"Wuthering Heights" was read when I was in middle school. If I didn't watch the movie to relive the plot, I would only remember the gloomy atmosphere and desolate scenes in the novel.
Famous novels always suffer the fate of repeated remakes. I checked the Internet and found about ten versions. I watched the most recent 2011 edition and wrote about my feelings about it.
The director's grasp of the atmosphere is very good. The farms on the sparsely populated hillsides, dew and fog seem to be everywhere, and the strong wind suddenly falls, frantically curling the hair and clothes of the boys and girls running and playing, you seem to feel the cold temperature in the air all the time. The two geese flying together at the beginning of the film and the lonely geese at the end imply the fate of the two that cannot be together in the end; It reveals the hatred between people that has long been unspeakable; the bones of the chicks in the soil also seem to foresee Catherine's death.
There is no superfluous music in the film, not even the tune at the end. Some are just pastoral ballads hummed by the women in the play. The more sparsely populated the place, the more people have the habit of singing - in order not to suffocate themselves from loneliness. Catherine sang by the campfire; Nellie sang while picking fruit; Francis sang to the infant, but there was not much joy in it, probably just a habit of dispelling emptiness. The film is filled with all kinds of small sounds: the rustling of undressing, the sticking of feet when stepping into the muddy road, the creaking of doors when opening and closing, and the intermittent sounds of rain and hail, horses. The sound of snoring, the sound of objects shattering in the fight... All these undisguised and even exaggerated sounds add a lot of realism to the film and highlight the environment at that time-there was only one family in a radius of dozens of miles, All the voices were undetected, and the love between the two was destined to happen.
The pacing of the movie is a bit of a problem. In the original book, although the introduction of childhood is also more detailed, it does not account for half of the space. The focus is on Westcliff's revenge - the reason is that the pace is a little slow, because the director has been rendering the atmosphere, and has been in Lyrical (although I kinda like it...), I don't quite accept this rhythm "dichotomy", it's like drawing the horizon in the middle, not beautiful, not primary and secondary - a movie There are too few things to tell, how can there be no primary and secondary? Many of the following plots are not as touching as the previous ones, and there are still some jumps, while the characters and events of the last two decades are directly ignored - of course, the director does not necessarily have to shoot according to the original work, the heroine in "White Deer Plain" Isn't Bai Ling just gone? So it doesn't matter if I don't shoot for the last 20 years, but the second half of the plot does make people feel a little lack of stamina.
In terms of character setting, Catherine should not have been played by a little fat girl when she was a child, and she was dressed in dirty clothes, more like a maid. The little girl is very wild, suitable for running up and down the hillside. It doesn't matter if they are unified, the key is that when they grow up, they will become thin to a piece of paper. After eloping with sister-in-law, Westcliff fell ill and died of illness - what about the little fat girl who could run and jump? And Westcliff is a gypsy, not a black man. This time, it will be a big deal to let a black person play the role directly! Directly brought the topic to racism. If she was really black, how could Isabella be a lady, so she wouldn't fall in love so easily. Her brother Hendry and her son chose really well, they were carved out of a mold, and the little guy was so cute. Well, I really like this kind of yellow-haired hooligan, mainly because the image in Ewan McGregor's "Trainspotting" is too deep in my heart. I don’t like the heroine’s appearance very much. I said that she looks familiar. I just watched her play “Maze Runner” yesterday. Although it is a sci-fi movie subject that I don’t like very much, the hero’s performance is very good, and there is a martial arts superstar. potential. The plot is also very compact, the setting and plot are a bit like "The Hunger Games", and at the beginning it is like the youth version of "Lord of the Flies" - the point is, that Korean Oppa is really cute. Ah, why does a serious film review reveal its superficial nature at the end.
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