weird? help!!!
i sorta got the film but still found it v weird and kinda disturbin!!! help needed!! thanks !! x x x
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The snobbery in this movie was difficult to stomach and then the movie pissed me off big time when the a-hole English family try and take the baby away from the Italian family and wind up killing the baby in the process. I can't watch this movie anymore!!
sharei saw it once,was disturbed and nearly puked
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I agree, this movie is very disturbing on lots of levels, but that was Forster's intent when he wrote the novel. Most of his books, and the film adaptations of them, deal in a strong way with the class differences in England at the time. Passage to India, Room With a View, and Maurice are rife with the separation of the classes. That Angels is so disturbing is a credit to the filmakers and actors who brought the work so skillfully to life. I initially watched it because of my great respect for Mirren, Graves, and Bonham-Carter, so while I was disturbed, I was anything but disappointed. Give the film another chance. I did, and enjoyed it much more fully the second time.
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Absolutely agree. I can see how it could be disturbing to someone who have not read the novel, and even then you dread it, because you know what is going to happen. It's much more like a modern psychological drama than a period drama.
One of Forster's aims with his novels was to expose the prejudices of the British, Edwardian, middle/upper-middle classes. He does it beautifully in this one, where the meeting with with a foreign culture - and one that in Forster's view were much less superficial and prejudiced - brings out all the visitor's flaws - Helen Mirren's included. She's really only looking for romance and freedom and reality turns out to be quite different.
I think it's interesting how well Forster's books have lend themselves to films. In all cases I think the films brings a deeper understanding to a modern viewer (and reader of his books).
This book was written perhaps even more beautifully than the luminescent A Room With A View (tied with Pride & Prejudice for my favorite of all time), but the darkness of it does make that harder to accept.
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I admit I havn't read the novel, and I'm not sure I would enjoy it!
I will give it another chance, maybe in a year or two, perhaps I just need the life experience to appreciate it
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I am not recommending it or anything, but there is no better way of assessing a book than by reading it oneself:
And here it is:
http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=waftt
(Click on the little orange icon.)
Thank you!
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