I agree I've always thought that Rosamund Pike played th every tricky role of wife,but not doormat but the figure who still loves and ultimately stands by him.This role was an acting minefeild ,with huge potential to get it wrong, we saw her pain and hurt, but she was not a stereotype downtrodden wife, there was ever a strength to her, you could tell this was a couple who was ideally suited, but apart through circumstances
Like you I found Mrs Barry hugely irritating, even takinginto account the character of Barr was a cold fidh who apeared touse men cynically. She was obviously ambitious and you should feel this was a woman who was driven and doing things on her own ters but she sees to appear a total blank, Inever felt she felt anything.. in fact it was only when listening to the directors commentary that I learned that Barry feels anything, like love and regret when leaving rochesrer in the thearet 'life is not an urgent succession of now's ' scene.. but I never had to be told or miss completely what rochesters wife feels,
I nevr get why Morton is assumed to be a great actress, Ive always heard she was really something so Ive watched a good few films of hers, and she never seems to convey any emotion she seems to just be there, and there is no feeling at all no layers and depth to heracting, so when the far more difficult role, to do, the tightrope of the wifes role, is done so fantastically, and of course the acting genius Depp reaches as the tortured Hedonist the godhaunted athetist, contradiction of Rochester there were two actors reaching fantastic levels its a shame so large a role of the Mistress fell so flat and empty, so much soyou neve knew why he felt anything for her,which was a slightly undermining case of affairs for the film.
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