Looking back at the 2011 version of "Jane Eyre", the biggest surprise is to find that the director of the film is Kerry Fukunaga, who will be famous in the industry for directing "True Detective" and writing "The Clown" in the future. Noisy director, whose dark and gloomy video style can already be seen in his early works, it is no wonder that when I recall the scattered memories left when I watched this film for the first time in junior high school, a sense of horror came to my mind Spread; under the shadowy Gothic castle building at the beginning, Jane Eyre, who ran wild in the dark night, set an uneasy tone for the whole film.
The heroine of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is the central character of this gothic novel - the dark and gloomy secrets of the past are buried under the innocent appearance of Jane Love like a castle. Roger Ebert put it this way: "Part of what appeals to us about gothic romance is the feeling that the erotic lust escapes beneath the surface of the narrative." The teenage girl is drawn to a male protagonist who is as dangerous as a vampire. The girl's setting is usually helpless, pitiful, and tragic, but at the same time she is also brave, self-respecting and full of feminism. In Brontë's works, the male protagonist Rochester undertakes another part of the narrative tension of the story, and in the adaptation of this version of the film, Fassbender's version of Rochester is a little less violent, More gentle from the beginning.
This should also be related to the design of the film’s narrative structure. The film adopts an interlude method, starting with Jane Eyre’s departure from the manor, and focusing on the part of Jane Eyre’s role as a tutor in Thornfield, while Jane Eyre was an orphan in her early years. The experiences of the academy and Loward School are interluded, and many plots are also chosen due to the two-hour time limit. This may also be the reason why it is difficult for me to feel the complex emotions between the two when they met and fell in love. The love experience between Jane Eyre and Rochester seems to me to be abrupt, and at the same time, it is more obvious. The love experience is regarded as the highlight of the film, which is in conflict with the feminism that this book is trying to express.
"My soul is the same as yours, and my heart is exactly the same as yours!" The author first came across this book when I was a child. It is usually classified as a love enlightenment book, but in fact it is not. This is a book about the growth of young girls. The book, Brontë chronicles the painful choices a girl must make amid a dilemma. It is true that the film's handling of the final third act of the wedding is excellent, but under the premise of abrupt love variations, it is difficult to reflect the criticism of the patriarchal class.
Going back to the creation of the film, there is no doubt that the art director of this film put a lot of energy into restoring the background of the 19th century medieval classical manor, and the whole film almost only uses natural light to abandon the lighting strategy, which also makes Kerry Fuyong. —The director of thrillers, who is good at creating an almost horror atmosphere — has plenty of room to play. And this is also in sharp contrast to the final scene of the film, which is set outdoors, a manor filled with bright trees and greenery. When Jane Eyre finally made a firm choice and held Rochester's hands, it also symbolized that she finally stepped out of her sad past and faced the light - that is, accepting herself.
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