17 November 2018

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
Finally got round to watching "Crimson Peak", a film which I remember as having sounded promising before release and then receiving generally dismissive reviews.
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And yet... it does have that emotional kick. The one vital thing is that you should become invested in what becomes of the characters, and I was.

And I like the twist that 'deliberately breaking Edith's heart' turns out to involve telling the aspiring authoress that she clearly doesn't have the faintest idea about writing angst! Nicely balanced later on by the revelations of just how much harm and anguish love can lead to, which is something which at that point she knows nothing about; she is a sheltered innocent and her stories of love's torments almost certainly are rubbish.

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