Completely agree - it was just okay. I’ve read the book and I highly recommend, it gives answers to all all the strange questions Fennell just left hanging or situations she assumed everyone would just buy into because she assumed everyone had read the book. I don’t completely hate the movie. It has style, it was something new, and no matter what scathing takes are on Substack, it is still legal to make a bad adaptation. A lot of people are acting like this movie came into their home and murdered their family. On the other hand, it was a bad adaptation and I don believe Fennell is limited in her scope of interpersonal relationships, as you said.
Yes, the book is on my TBR now! I’m definitely curious to watch other Wuthering Heights adaptations too. I do find the conversation surrounding it to be a little “think piece” when we can just all agree it’s a terrible adaptation and then move on lol
The book is an actual masterpiece, and so layered I’m not sure a visual adaptation will ever do it justice. Some stories just demand to be told in words
Completely agree - it was just okay. I’ve read the book and I highly recommend, it gives answers to all all the strange questions Fennell just left hanging or situations she assumed everyone would just buy into because she assumed everyone had read the book. I don’t completely hate the movie. It has style, it was something new, and no matter what scathing takes are on Substack, it is still legal to make a bad adaptation. A lot of people are acting like this movie came into their home and murdered their family. On the other hand, it was a bad adaptation and I don believe Fennell is limited in her scope of interpersonal relationships, as you said.
Yes, the book is on my TBR now! I’m definitely curious to watch other Wuthering Heights adaptations too. I do find the conversation surrounding it to be a little “think piece” when we can just all agree it’s a terrible adaptation and then move on lol
The book is an actual masterpiece, and so layered I’m not sure a visual adaptation will ever do it justice. Some stories just demand to be told in words
I think that's an excellent way to put it!