Resumo de Pride & Prejudice Review

Pride & Prejudice Review
By Shawn McKenzie 11/11/2005
Keira Knightley has been the girl for the last couple of years. Her latest few movies this year?s excellent The Jacket and Domino have flopped, but she is still one of the better young actresses working today. Most other critics really liked this movie Pride & Prejudice, but I will have to disagree respectfully as a critic who just wanted to be entertained. Sometime near the end of the 18th century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet Donald Sutherland and Brenda Blethyn have found themselves with five beautiful daughters, but no son to take over their house and property once they die only a male can be an heir for some weird reason. The Bennet girls, Jane Rosamund Pike Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lizzy (Knightly Mary Tallulah Riley Catherine, a.k.a. Kitty Carey Mulligan and Lydia Jena Malone), are all single, which worries their mother their father just wants them to be happy. Mrs. Bennet constantly acts like a matchmaker so that they can find a male heir and have a man take care of them financially. Prosperous bachelor Mr. Charles Bingley Simon Woods has leased a mansion near to the Bennets? estate with his sister Caroline Kelly Reilly and good and even wealthier friend Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy Matthew acFadyen. Both Caroline and Darcy look down upon the Bennets and their society because it isn?t up to their standards. Jane has taken a shine to Bingley though, and he likes her. With the assumed coupling of Jane and Bingley a lock, Mrs. Bennet sets her sights on Lizzy. She tries to set Lizzy up with Mr. William Collins Tom Hollander her distant and uninteresting clergyman cousin who will inherit Lizzy?s estate if a male heir isn?t found since he is the closest male relative. Collins is looking for a wife, but Lizzy isn?t interested in him why is it that no one mentions the fact that they are cousins? She likes a military man named Mr. George Wickham Rupert Friend who doesn?t like Darcy because of something in their past. Speaking of Darcy Lizzy doesn?t like him either?mainly because he considers her too plain and common for the likes of him. It doesn?t matter though, because his affluent aunt and Collins? patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourg Judi Dench looks down on Lizzy as well. Catherine would rather see Darcy marry her daughter Anne (Rosamund Stephen; okay?what is up with all of this cousin-marrying stuff? Since Lizzy has rejected Collins, the cousin decides to marry Charlotte Lucas Claudie Blakley Lizzy?s best friend, who marries him because she is afraid of being a spinster. This highly upsets Mrs. Bennet though. She is further stressed when Bingley dumps Jane and Wickham marries Lydia (Wickham isn?t quite rich enough for Mrs. Bennet?s tastes. As time passes, Lizzy and Darcy get to know one another better, and they start to fall in love. So why wasn?t I entertained when apparently everyone else or at least every critic was? It was boring! I?ve liked several Jane Austen adaptations, including the 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility and the 1996 movie Emma, plus the modern adaptations.

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