Rating: ****
A beautifully-filmed, wonderfully-acted, and brilliantly-horrific adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel.
Barnes is absolutely perfect as Dorian Gray, beginning the movie as an attractive, naive young man, and ending it as a terrifying monster. Firth is, of course, tantalisingly believable as Henry Wotton.
The wonderful thing about this film is that is portrays so easily how people can become corrupted over superficial things, in this case, staying young and beautiful forever. Yet it also shows that just because you live a life of pleasure, it does not necessarily mean you are happy.
Sexually charged and yet not obscene in the slightest, the film as a whole is a fantastic work of art, with the dark filters used to make it seem more gothic, and a darker film. The camera angles are experimental and sometimes slightly offputting, but this only adds to the layer of mystery and evil nature of Dorian Gray.
Worth seeing, especially if one has a love for darker and deeper films.
I think that ellie may has captured all the right aspects of this film. I have very much enjoyed reading her views on this film, as it has made me reconsider my views on this perticular film. There is one part in perticular that is good about this film review and that is that it does not drag on for to long and it is not to short. As it captures all the detail.
ReplyDeleteI think that Ellies review is brillo and i know want to watch it. It explains details of the film without giving away the full story line.
ReplyDeleteThis definitely looks interesting. I've been wanting to see it. Firth is good in everything he's been in. I'm looking forward to seeing "The King's Speech."
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i am so gunna see this film after reading this! Thanks
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