Becoming Jane

I watched this movie yesterday starring Anne Hathaway as the writer Jane Austen of a popular book Pride and Prejudice (which also became a movie in 2005). It's an old English story and may actually be boring at first sight. The language pattern is old and I'm not so use of the English accent so it was a bit difficult to understand. I also have to use subtitles and read some of the lines :)...

Anyway, the story is still great (well, for me..). It's about love, relationship, family, and ambition with a little tragedy... And if there is one word that dictates the story, it would be "propriety". Realistically speaking, it does influence most of us until now... Whatever dictates the context of the word is another thing. It's common to classic stories but the ending is quite unexpected until after the climax (if I spotted it correctly ^^,) and if I was wrong, the ending still contradicted the word "propriety" and its definition during that century.There's also a lot of ups and downs in the level of excitement. One minute they're happy, the next they're not.

It's one story that makes you wonder if getting what your heart desire necessary to make your happy, whose comfort are you willing to sacrifice to get it and and to what extent are you willing to risk with what you have; a story that says I know "what's best for you" but hardly understand its difference with "what's best for them". In any event that you try to meet it half-way, you might just end-up finding yourself in a bigger trouble than before.

The thing that made me love this story is the fact that she was able to enjoy her life in every aspect even if she didn't live it as propriety dictates.

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