I love poetry! My favorite Emily Dickinson poems are 'Success Is Counted Sweetest', 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers', 'I Tend My Flowers for Thee', 'I'm nobody! Who are you?', & 'If I can stop one Heart from breaking'.
Unfortunately, this is a film where I feel that the creators deliberately picked up the sad and stuffy bits. What we get at the end is a finely made but largely uninteresting biopic! This could've been made in a much more interesting way by helping the audience identify with ED on a human level. Like everyone else, I think what ED wanted the most was to be respected & admired for what she did best. She knew that she wasn't a very social person but perhaps she believed that her self-expression through her beautiful and insightful work would endear her to readers without having to personally interact with them. She wasn't very wrong in her assumption seeing as how we love & respect her now! Sadly, what she forgot to take into account was the fact that at her time, the world was not ready for meaningful poetry from a female poet. The movie does a good job of showing ED's desperation & despair, which possibly converted her into a bitter person. However, I feel that it does great injustice to her by failing to show that she enjoyed gardening, loved nature, was good with children or that many of her epistolary relationships became life-long associations, replete with mutual love and respect on both sides. That said, some dialogues were quite good, especially; "But you cannot be equal to a man." "If I can't have equality, then I want nothing of love." Sad, but very poignant lines, which sum up the movie quite well!
Unfortunately, this is a film where I feel that the creators deliberately picked up the sad and stuffy bits. What we get at the end is a finely made but largely uninteresting biopic! This could've been made in a much more interesting way by helping the audience identify with ED on a human level. Like everyone else, I think what ED wanted the most was to be respected & admired for what she did best. She knew that she wasn't a very social person but perhaps she believed that her self-expression through her beautiful and insightful work would endear her to readers without having to personally interact with them. She wasn't very wrong in her assumption seeing as how we love & respect her now! Sadly, what she forgot to take into account was the fact that at her time, the world was not ready for meaningful poetry from a female poet. The movie does a good job of showing ED's desperation & despair, which possibly converted her into a bitter person. However, I feel that it does great injustice to her by failing to show that she enjoyed gardening, loved nature, was good with children or that many of her epistolary relationships became life-long associations, replete with mutual love and respect on both sides. That said, some dialogues were quite good, especially; "But you cannot be equal to a man." "If I can't have equality, then I want nothing of love." Sad, but very poignant lines, which sum up the movie quite well!