The Scarlet Letter
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Movie Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
Movie Review: The Scarlet Letter DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best videos I've ever seen. The music is outstanding.I highly
reccomend this to anyone who likes a good love story.
Movie Review: TRUE LOVE ALWAYS WINS
Summary: 5 Stars
A LOVE STORY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALIVE AND FULL OF DESIRE TO LIVE AND LOVEMovie Review: The Scarlet Letter without the flashing light of purity
Summary: 4 Stars
Freely adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, it retains some elements but mostly reorients the story completely. The love story is kept, except that it was secret in most of the book and is made public for us the audience from the very start. The vengeance part of the story is emphasized by the Indian war that this vengeful ex-husband starts out of pure perversity since he has nothing to win out of it, far from it, since it will mean his own end in his own guilt like a revenge turned sour. The witch part is definitely emphasized too, even too much, but does not reach the level of the Crucible, even if it is in a way the same pattern that is followed. Here the film does not miss but rather avoids the fundamental point of the Crucible : witch-hunting was a political activity covering the greed of some landowners for the land of their neighbors. And we completely miss the nature part of the original story. All these drawbacks and shortcomings are compensated with a lot of love, passion, frustration and desire. The two main actors are brilliant in expressing the most extreme passion repressed and hidden away with pure willpower and maybe some condescending rejection for this society that was born in the dream of the freedom of a New Jerusalem and ended up in the drama and tragedy of the darkest and cruellest human passion, hatred based on jealousy. The film is probably a brilliant success at showing how righteousness can easily become criminal sectarianism, if not even worse if there is anything worse like fundamentalism. But in the end I missed nature's light that I remember is flashing and shining in this story. The end is nothing but a flight and not an escape. One can escape such a situation only by transforming it not running away like some fearful doggy.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Movie Review: Oldman does it again!
Summary: 4 Stars
Not a big fan of Romance movies, but a sucker for anything Oldman stars in, I bought this DVD without ever having read the first thing about it. And once more? I cannot say I was dissappointed.The story is about Hester Prynne (Demi Moore), a young wife who travels to the new world to prepare for her husband's arrival. She ends up in a conservative community, who are rather shocked with her modern ways of dealing with certain things.
When Hester's husband travels to the new world, he is believed to be murdered by the Indians. She falls in love with the Reverend Dimmsdale (Oldman), whose feelings match hers. Out of their love, a child is conceived. However, since her husband hasn't been proven dead, the child is seen by the community as being born out of wedlock.
The conservative and very religious communion demands Hester to name the father of the child, which she denies. She's locked up in prison and has her baby there, while Dimmsdale is torn over whether to step forward as the baby's father.
Hester then is freed but ordered to walk around town wearing a Scarlet Letter 'A', which is meant to belittle her whereever she goes.
Shortly after the child is born, her husband (Robert Duvall) suddenly reappears, and tries to incite the indians (whom he befriended) to act against the community. Single-handedly, he manages to offset the fragile peace that was between the two peoples.
Moore doesn't do too bad of a job as Hester, Duvall is good as the husband, but Oldman still manages to steal the show. All in all, even though I don't enjoy romances, the movie managed to keep me amused.
Movie Review: It's good. I think people have a problem with Demi
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, you should of read the bood in high school, if not... read it. This addaptation is brilliant. I won't go into the plot, nor the ohh so deep meaning (bad word). I feel this movie was over looked because people had or still have a bad opinion of Demi Moore. Maybe they are scared that she is a strong actress who chooses roles that make her a target for the "People Magazine" crowd. She is a great actress, we are lucky she works, we need her to work more. Gary is always brilliant. Again, you probally know the story, this movie works...unlike say The Great Gasby... they needed to have a scrip not just copy the book. Pardon my spelling, I'm a writer yet my grammer and spelling suck. That's why computers exist.