Monday, April 09, 2007
Becoming Jane
Poor Hyein.
We had a girls day out today to cheer Hyein up after we found out her dog of 12 years died of old age yesterday.
So even though Hyein was the only one that wanted to watch "Becoming Jane" at the movies, we went along with it anyway.
Which turned out to be totally hilarious.
Because before the movie started, the preview for "Meet the Robinsons" came on and we burst out laughing at the dinosaur. And Hyein kept bursting into random fits of giggles right before the movie.
And Karin's comment was straight out of "Sixth Sense".
"I see old people."
OMG. How fraking appropriate. Out of everyone in the cinema, excluding us, there were only 4 other young women. The rest were all oldies. XD
Anyway, "Becoming Jane" was pretty interesting, depicting the love life of Jane Austen, although how much of it was true is really debatable; considering they used only letters between Jane and her sister, Cassandra as reference for the romance in the film.
As a woman, I find Jane's decision to leave Tom Lefroy a stupid and respectable decision.
Stupid because she gave up love because she couldn't bear for him to give up everything, and in time destroy his family.
Respectable because she was a very independent woman who stood up for her ideals and refused to listen to anyone else.
I have read Pride and Prejudice before, but it was a long time ago. Xiaogu tried to make me watch the movie but I shrunk away in terror after seeing the number of tapes. HAHA.
Maybe I SHOULD watch it when I go over on Friday night.
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 19:21