this adaptation loses a lot of the fat on the dialogue in the play, but i think some of that might be needed- a few small references here and there to the actual 'play acting' helps deepen the ending, but this version helps make the revelation more emotionally impactful from what i gather- and in a way the screen can communicate these a little quicker
overall, there are different intensities that adaptations take for the "doll's house" metaphor, and this one takes it pretty loosely but the idea is still there
it's a little soap-opera-y but the source material is complex enough that it translates here even if a lot of the edges have been sanded off
also, this one is interesting as a film adaptation, because i feel that this one has a lot of nuances that seem they might work out in vastly different ways each night compared to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (the last play-to-film from last month i watched) where this one tends to have a lot looser feeling pacing until the last half of act 3, whereas WAoVW has a very deliberate pacing written in. in this way, i think A Doll's House works better as a play in my mind- but it's probably the directing and budget and the changes to the script.
I also watched a lecture on this play and the theatre where they described the different energies and ideas represented in the design, but i think film works well to represent the 'trapped' nature of nora, but the cinematography doesn't reflect that too much. just uncapitalized on I think.
misc thoughts:- every single review of this version i've seen seems like people watching this for english class, which yeah i wouldn't like it for english class but it seems a little slept on- torvald is so terrifying and then an absolute baby (derogatory) the next second and that makes him a little more scary. toward the end i was more scared than i have been in most horror movies- can't tell quite how faithful these versions of the characters are, but they're very interesting to me- nora plays "doll" so well here, but you can clearly tell she's keeping up an act and seeing her put things together is dramatically effective, and torvald's truth in the bigotry is also well done making his huge shifts completely believable- especially love a man crashing out because of himself- this kind of deep-dive into late 19th century european domestic life is very interesting, and i can definitely see why especially germany would find it controversial
this adaptation loses a lot of the fat on the dialogue in the play, but i think some of that might be needed- a few small references here and there to the actual 'play acting' helps deepen the ending, but this version helps make the revelation more emotionally impactful from what i gather- and in a way the screen can communicate these a little quicker
overall, there are different intensities that adaptations take for the "doll's house" metaphor, and this one takes it pretty loosely but the idea is still there
it's a little soap-opera-y but the source material is complex enough that it translates here even if a lot of the edges have been sanded off
also, this one is interesting as a film adaptation, because i feel that this one has a lot of nuances that seem they might work out in vastly different ways each night compared to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (the last play-to-film from last month i watched) where this one tends to have a lot looser feeling pacing until the last half of act 3, whereas WAoVW has a very deliberate pacing written in. in this way, i think A Doll's House works better as a play in my mind- but it's probably the directing and budget and the changes to the script.
I also watched a lecture on this play and the theatre where they described the different energies and ideas represented in the design, but i think film works well to represent the 'trapped' nature of nora, but the cinematography doesn't reflect that too much. just uncapitalized on I think.
misc thoughts:- every single review of this version i've seen seems like people watching this for english class, which yeah i wouldn't like it for english class but it seems a little slept on- torvald is so terrifying and then an absolute baby (derogatory) the next second and that makes him a little more scary. toward the end i was more scared than i have been in most horror movies- can't tell quite how faithful these versions of the characters are, but they're very interesting to me- nora plays "doll" so well here, but you can clearly tell she's keeping up an act and seeing her put things together is dramatically effective, and torvald's truth in the bigotry is also well done making his huge shifts completely believable- especially love a man crashing out because of himself- this kind of deep-dive into late 19th century european domestic life is very interesting, and i can definitely see why especially germany would find it controversial
