The Scarlet Letter
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Movie Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
Movie Review: The Scarlett Letter dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a wonderful performance by Demi Moore and Daniel Day Lewis of the classic book "The Scarlett Letter". If you enjoyed the book you will really like this movie.Movie Review: Let us not forget.....
Summary: 4 Stars
Good movie. Let us not forget John 8:7: "He who is without sin, among you, let him cast the first stone". I think the puritians forgot that!
Chantell Snyder
Movie Review: Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
This story is an entertaining one if not seen as a representation of Hawthorne's novel. Rated R with good reason: sex, nudity, and violence.Movie Review: "Who is to say what is a sin in God's eyes?"
Summary: 3 Stars
For my point of view "The Scarlet Letter" is a good film with great performances... All the actors do a superb job... I was worried that Demi Moore might not have the range to handle the role of Mistress Prynne, but she is excellent... She is strong, passionate, intelligent and damaged... In another place and time she might have been a leader; in this movie she is quite believable as the woman who defends her love at all costs... Gary Oldman looks perfect as Reverend Dimmesdale... He projects force and sexual magnetism along with the guilt for his sin...
The film opens in 1666 when Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony filled with hope that here, at last, in this new World, would come the freedom to worship without fear or persecution... She didn't suspect that beyond the trees there is a savage land of savage passions dark and untamed, and that soon she will face a scornful community in which she will forever be shamed by the scarlet letter...
Mistress Prynne rejected the idea of staying in the congregation until her husband's arrival and looked for a house of her own... She finds a beautiful and frightening place, just as 'Eden must have been so untouched...'
On one Sabbath morning, Hester met Reverend Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) who helps her when her cart got stuck in the woods... She truly enjoyed, few minutes later, his sermon ... It was rare, for her, to find a man so young and fiery who could speak with such force of passion... She was moved by his passion...
Dimmesdale thought that comprehending God was going to be his greatest challenge, but--after he met Hester--he was not the man he seems to be... He lost his power before this seductress beautiful woman... He lived in this township his whole life and his purpose was clear... But now he would risk everything--his life, his ministry, his soul--just to spend a few moments alone with her... After he asked her why that morning in the forest, she didn't say that she is married, he wondered how she were able to see so deeply into his nature...
From that moment, two hearts were there struggling against a love that grew stronger with each passing day...
Hester was courteous enough but her tongue knew no rules... She earned more than a few reprimands in her life for speaking too bluntly... With a frightening strength, she challenged her persecutors and stood up to their hypocrisy, refusing to reveal her lover's identity...
"The Scarlet Letter" compels us to recognize the shadow side of our lives, including this passion that pushes us beyond our limits... The climax also compels us to contemplate about whether there is anything that we would be willing to die for...
Movie Review: Oldman and Moore Star in This Tale of Greed, Revenge and Human Error
Summary: 3 Stars
I am open minded enough that even though the Rev. Dimmesdale and Hester did commit fornication- as it cannot really be called adultery as they believed Hester's husband to be dead- that does not make what the townspeople in their so-called "New Jerusalem" did to "punish" Hester right or even morally acceptable in the sight of God. I found the majority of the locals to be judgemental, overly strict and downright vindictive and jealous from the very moment Hester came to shore early in the film.
Not to mention that her husband-who it turns out was taken by Indians and who shows up later in town- is no man of God either, and is so filled with revenge for Hester's infedility with the Reverend (spied upon by a peeping tom in the form of Hester's maidservant) that he becomes blinded by hate and places the uneasy but workeable truce between the towns folk and savages in serious jeopardy.
THE SCARLET LETTER is a moving and all too human tale of people judging one another and being filled with so much hypocrisy that they will do anything to appease what they wrongfully assume to be the will of God-even if it hurts their fellow man. Indeed the only redeemeable part of the town was the old maid who takes pity on Hester-even after the trial and perseuction commences-and aids her in childbirth, while the disheartened Dimmesdale must keep his vow of silence over being the father of Hester's child even though it makes him sick inside-and all the while a vengeful, evil man lurks in the shadows to avenge himself on them all!
Gary Oldman-of Harry Potter fame as Sirius Black as well as being known for his portrayals of Ludwig Van Beethoven and a young Commissioner Gordon from Batman- and Demi Moore (known for her work in such hit films as Ghost, G.I.Jane, Striptease and more) star in this fascinating journey into the heart of man and a woman who fate has conspired to bring them together- only to tear them apart.
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