sylvia, lady lazarus
i watched sylvia yesterday.in fact yesterday and today;between before twelve and after 1 am.
pretending that i am someone who do not worship plath and sees her as a mentor then yes i found the movie ok. so sorry it was not to be.
it was an absolute horror movie which undermined sylvia plath 's literary abilities, her personality and magnified her marriage w ted hughes.
this is a bad thing with the movie making industry; what is seemingly more commerically successful ( broken marriage, love, affair, death ) is always exploited until it seems like the character is not the main issue. the movie should be renamed "a marriage between hughes and sylvia" or sylvia: her marriage " or even "ted hughes: his marriage of tragedy". and yeah, it was a good commerical move to star paltrow as the great plath, but she played her with such detachment and stiffness (as if she memorised how to be depressed), that its really a pain to watch. all i wanted to do was swear when i had to imagine her as plath which i really could not, and so this is one of the main flaws of the movie. to watch it and pretend its a another common story about a woman living in the mid 50s, makes it much more bearable.
the actor daniel craig did a much better job with ted.
people seem to forget these days that unhappiness is not solely based on an event. or that if you want to make an autobiography on someone as great as plath, u should allow all perspectives instead of narrowing it down AND subtlely insists throughout the whole movie that she died because her husband slept with another woman. the movie stifles any sort of the real plath spirit. yes, they might have given us a glimpse of her unhappy nature; yes, they might have captured the movie in a very surreal way but let's not forget that sylvia wasnt merely an unhappy wife. the affair did not cause her to die; it merely gave her reason to.
she was someone who only lived when she becomes one with death. she herself was lady lazarus. i only can imagine what escaped her when she had those few seconds to herself , before she died.
xoxoxo
pretending that i am someone who do not worship plath and sees her as a mentor then yes i found the movie ok. so sorry it was not to be.
it was an absolute horror movie which undermined sylvia plath 's literary abilities, her personality and magnified her marriage w ted hughes.
this is a bad thing with the movie making industry; what is seemingly more commerically successful ( broken marriage, love, affair, death ) is always exploited until it seems like the character is not the main issue. the movie should be renamed "a marriage between hughes and sylvia" or sylvia: her marriage " or even "ted hughes: his marriage of tragedy". and yeah, it was a good commerical move to star paltrow as the great plath, but she played her with such detachment and stiffness (as if she memorised how to be depressed), that its really a pain to watch. all i wanted to do was swear when i had to imagine her as plath which i really could not, and so this is one of the main flaws of the movie. to watch it and pretend its a another common story about a woman living in the mid 50s, makes it much more bearable.
the actor daniel craig did a much better job with ted.
people seem to forget these days that unhappiness is not solely based on an event. or that if you want to make an autobiography on someone as great as plath, u should allow all perspectives instead of narrowing it down AND subtlely insists throughout the whole movie that she died because her husband slept with another woman. the movie stifles any sort of the real plath spirit. yes, they might have given us a glimpse of her unhappy nature; yes, they might have captured the movie in a very surreal way but let's not forget that sylvia wasnt merely an unhappy wife. the affair did not cause her to die; it merely gave her reason to.
she was someone who only lived when she becomes one with death. she herself was lady lazarus. i only can imagine what escaped her when she had those few seconds to herself , before she died.
xoxoxo
