Beautiful Creatures : a movie review

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This weekend was a movie weekend. Today we saw Beautiful Creatures and I really, really enjoyed it. First and foremost the love story between the two young people was infinitely better, more compelling and much healthier than what was offered in Twilight. The young mortal named Ethan was charming, charismatic, a ray of sunshine and the heroine, on the edge of young womanhood, was appropriately soulful, angst-ridden, passionate and torn. Their love gave you hope for beauty and happiness despite the conflicts and obstacles.

The actors were a treat; Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossun and the great Jeremy Irons. His voice and his presence has always made me swoon. I was lucky enough to see him on the London stage in a Shakespearean production of Richard II and he was magnificent. I could watch him in anything; lately he has me mesmerized as the Pope and the daddy of the Borgias. He is an amazing actor and as the Patriarch of the family in the movie Beautiful Creatures, he brings the perfect amount authority, guidance and need to control the actions of those around him all for the good of the family. Emma Thompson, you could tell, was having a lot of fun in her role as the counterpoint to Jeremy Irons and everyone who plays off these two; shines because of them and with them.

I know that I give thumbs up to almost every movie that I see; I love movies, what can I tell you. I enjoy leaving my reality for two hours or so and hitching a ride somewhere else. It feels good and I think that it is good for the mind and the soul. I’m not sure which movie is next, but you’ll be the next to find out.

Alternate universe

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

One of my favorite movies is Pride and Prejudice. I would love to see how my life would have played out in that era; what opportunities if any, would have presented themselves to me and my little sister. If I could have made something of myself even though I was a woman. Because in the time of Pride and Prejudice, not only would I have faced the prejudices of my social and economic class but also that of my gender.

My father would have been an artisan and my mother might have been a bookkeeper if she had been lucky, she could sew but not well enough to be a seamstress. We wouldn't have been landowners, so I'm not sure how far in school I would have been allowed to go, but if I was given the opportunity than I'm sure that I would have become a governess and then who knows.

I would be curious to see just how all important and how ironclad the barriers were between social stations and economic class. I would view this trip to an alternate universe more of a sociological experiment than anything else. Who knows, depending on the outcome of my voyage to Ms. Bennett's time, Pride and Prejudice may no longer be my favorite movie, especially if I don't get to meet a man as intriguing as Mister Darcy. I wouldn't care so much about the wealth as much as the nature of his character. If I ended up a lonely old spinster because of the constraints of my station, that would definitely sour me to the movie and the time period and not because I was denied love but because my whole existence was bound by external circumstances that didn't define who I was as a person.