Deb 7 Me 6
This is one of those names that is famous but I didn't know anything about. It wasn't on my radar but it fit into the movie night time slot so we gave it a try. I'll give the film makers credit for trying something new, the whole thing was done play like, but as if their lives were on stage, very Shakespearean, and it was interesting. The way it was directed, the first twenty minutes I felt like they were going to break out in song. It seemed like too much fluff, but as I thought about it (mind wandering away) I concluded that they were moving the story along, however slowly. In the end it seemed like a lot of spectacle for what appeared to be a fairly thin story. I imagine this to be one of the great tales, that's why so many of us have heard of the book, but the screen version was all style and little substance. Very pretty to look at, the staging was amusing, but not very engaging.
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