Haylee

"Mrs. Darcy" GET OUT. IM CRYING. IM SOBBING.

hey ryan gosling is apparently never allowed to cry cause i'll start crying

Ts was surprisingly really good and the twist at the end got me.

I slowly learned by watching this movie, to not always expect it to be identical to the book. However, it did affect my viewing experience. Every change that Emerald Funnel made was to simply make Heathcliff and Cathrine more appealing to a wider audience. And in doing so, she created a love story born of trauma shared between two people. This changed the entire point of the book however. But, created a beautiful story within its changes. I left sobbing, because she somehow made me relate to Cathrine and her decisions very well. It's easy to assume in the book that cathrine is mentally ill, and she does a very good job of exploring that mental illness well, it's not something that has to be explicitly stated but it's heavily implied in both the book and in this movie. It makes Cathrine's sudden actions all the more deeper, and when she acts out all the more deeper because you realize she was just an abused child who made a brash decision to escape her situation she didn't want to be in.  In the book however, Cathrine was never abused and the lack of Hindley, her older brother, feels like a huge oversight but in the end you realize why she did it-- to give Cathrine a reason to relate deeper to Heathcliff and make their trauma more comparable. Funnel completely threw the cycle of violence story and generational trauma story out the window, and basically only kept it with Heathcliff which I feel is a completely odd decision.  I deeply disliked the route they took with Isabella. It felt like Funnel putting the blame on another women to explain away Heathcliffs abusive actions in the book to make him more appealing when he wasn't supposed to be. Heathcliff was ruined by his abuse and it caused the perpetuation of bad actions he continued to commit to both Hareton, Linton, Isabella, and Cathy (Edgar and Cathrines daughter). I think giving the nickname of Cathy to Cathrine in this movie was also a weird take, that was never her nickname and she was never called that in the book. She just took it from her daughter in the book. I didn't like that idea, at all and it felt weird artistically. The colors were stunning, but it does feel like something to draw in young cinephiles to make them feel as if they're discovering something deep. It was a beautiful execution, but very on the nose and not something you'd actually have to sit back and think about. The stylization of the whole movie struck me as odd too, I wish Funnel would've dove deeper into the victorian england aesthetic instead of slapping this rococo esque aesthetic and dress and calling it a day.  Overall, if it was called anything BUT wuthering heights would've made this a significantly better movie. If i wasn't comparing to the book, as one naturally will after reading a novel like that, then i would've rated this at least a 4 1/2 star. It struck me emotionally, but it doesn't change the source of the movie itself.