Eva

This movie walked so dune could run. Merillium = spice, the destined Merliah= lissan al gaib. Do I have to keep going?

So important to my formative years.

***DO NOT WATCH THIS WITH YOUR MAN, YOU WILL LOOK AT HIM AND SIGH!!!*** In all seriousness though, as much as I can appreciate this film in its technical and aesthetic choices, as well as its casting (albeit not accurate to the book whatsoever) I can’t help but feel disappointed by how emotionally and thematically underdeveloped this adaptation is. Wuthering Heights is not simply a gothic romance novel it is a study of how genuine love can twist into obsession, grief, and ultimately be your ruin. Catherine and Heathcliff did love each other so much, but their love is inseparable from pride, trauma, and social alienation. After Catherine’s death, Heathcliff does not simply mourn, he disintegrates, he loses himself in his destructive obsession over Catherine. He begs for her ghost to haunt him, desecrates her grave, and admits that living without her is a kind of living death. What begins as innocent and pure devotion turns into fixation, and his grief becomes his entire identity. The second half of the novel still feels emotionally hollowed out. It’s essential to the book’s meaning: it reveals how unresolved passion and resentment are inherited, and how healing only becomes possible when obsession finally burns itself out. Without fully developing this arc, the story loses its moral and psychological depth and becomes a little trapped in aesthetic melancholy. What shocked me most was the erasure of the racial and social dimensions of Heathcliff’s character. In the novel, he is racially ambiguous and relentlessly othered, which shapes both his suffering and his cruelty. Removing this context strips the narrative of its critique of class, exclusion, and dehumanization which are themes just as central as the romance itself. The novel also interrogates power, gender, and confinement. Catherine’s conflict between social ambition and emotional freedom, and the way both characters become prisoners of their own desires. The film favors visual longing over this psychological complexity. Because this is not just a tragic love story, it is a warning about how love, when mixed with ego and grief, can turn into something so destructive that it leaves you wondering whether love alone was ever meant to make us good.