"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "

Anais Nin

Jane Austen ( 16 December 1775-18 July 1817)

I don't know if the story is perfectly true...in fact we don't know much about her life...the film is based on a biography "Becoming Jane"written by Jon Spence in 2003. But is it really important...te interesting thing in this film is the atmosphere...the painting of England in those times...the way an English young lady is educated...the title is interesting: becoming Jane, how do you become a writer...and Jane's character is so great...yes the actress is very beautiful a bit too much, but she acts so just in tune...you feel this strong temper, proud, realistic...the way she gets interested in everyday life, ordinary people, ordinary works, nature, animals and danse, sports, music...the way she looks for words to find the exact one in a simple way, not a sophisticated one...a critic wrote: in autumn romantic writers would create extraordinary romances, Jane Austen bewared of not catching a cold, because an ordinary cold would do this, do that etc...just like Louise falling from the Cobb...
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a few quotes now...
-Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
-If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly.
-I do not want people to be agreeable , as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
-Everybody likes to go their own way- to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

1 comment:

RUTH said...

I hadn't known that a film had been made. I must watch out for it :o)