A Quiet Passion (2016)

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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Boring beyond words. Emily feared death so much she couldn't live her life, this fear brought depression, panic, social phobia and eventually she backed herself in to the safe zone of her bedroom with acute agoraphobia . The emo child of yesteryear . Did she suffer ? Yes , but when one refuses to see life as an experience with all it's worth including warts and all, then one suffers. Poetry is always personal to it's author and Emily's work tells her life, making a film about her is only amplifying the depressing state of her mind to viewers some of whom I would like to caution if you yourself is suffering from dark thoughts before watching this, frankly I'd advise to leave it be and just let it clutter the shelves of time instead of the deep recesses of your mind.

I don't know what did everybody expected from it, but I thought it was good. It is a biopic and you can't anticipate a film to alter for your comfort. Not all the films based on the real person are one hundred per cent exact depiction. Recreation is impossible, but getting somewhere close to it what this film did like many others. Because you won't able to cover thousands of hours of a person's life in just 120 minutes. The director did his part finely and so the actors.Periodic flick means we expect fancy costumes. This film had started like one, but faded away quickly, once the story started to get serious. After graduating from the school, the young Emily Dickinson decides to write poetries and she succeeds too. But she's not a person of god as her family or the society she's living in. Then she meets another young woman like her. Soon everybody around her starts to get disappear as the phase of life moving on, so she loses all the company. How her rest of the life happens were revealed on the remaining part.Despite both the versions of Emily were good, it also became the weakness of the film. They should have went for one actor with make- up option. I liked first half and the second half, but it looked two different films with two different actors. Setting in the 19th century, the struggles of women is what it highlighted. Most of the film took place in the Emily's house. Being a true story, it is worthy film. But not everybody would enjoy it. Because that's not how Emily Dickinson lived. I meant to get cheers from the today's audience for her film.7/10

Not only it is boring, but forces the aspect of feminism by making male characters appear weak. Very unrealistic. Also, wastes too much time on non intellectual dialogues and long slow scenes without good photography. Maybe the script is not that good. The movie seems to be part of a 2016/2017 cult of men hating feminism which makes all women look lesbians and ugly.

The intention here is to create a novel in form and movement. It is like most Davies's films, styled in the same characteristic manner. The form means scenes progress in a way that is reminiscent of Bergman's Cries and Whispers' that is, complete in themselves and not always related to the previous action.Within this template the film is quite successful: the design and the actors, all contribute to something that strives to make a film about an artist. That may not be very interesting and its presentation is quite static, but then, so were the lives of the people depicted.Where it is flawed is the script, which, no doubt was crafted with some attention, yet, with a limited set of rhetorical devices: paradox, homily, hyperbole, irony, for instance; it soon becomes quite irritating. So many scenes run through a few set pieces with these rhetorical plays which are intended to amuse but repeat themselves and without any forward motion. There it resembles Bergman too: the self chastising, the self examination, accusation and reproach; the moral duty to become better, and while this may recreate the anxieties of the people involved, it is not accomplished writing.Unfortunately this film has the moral worthiness of chapel instruction without a better insight into its subject.