Review of Persuasion (2022) by Jluis_001 — 17 Jul 2022
Attempting to update a literary work released just over two centuries ago is not an easy gamble, but it's not something I would frown upon either, if the source material is respected. But be warned. When I say respecting it, I don't mean that it should be an exact copy of it.
One way or another, purists will disown anything, and in the case of Jane Austen, don't even mention it.
Persuasion tries. I don't hold that against it, but it's as tame and predictable as you'd expect from films that usually engage in this kind of adaptations. You could put it side by side with any other similar film and you wouldn't really find any difference worth mentioning.
Ironically this script tries to make its main character far more incisive than you would expect from a woman of the period and yet that same character is completely tied to the conventions of that era.
It's like saying: ''Yes she has a broad personality, but even so, she must still play by the rules.''
Either you're encouraged to break them or you don't. Persuasion fails to do that.
Dakota Johnson deserves the credit for her performance, but that's basically it.
This review of Persuasion (2022) was written by Jluis_001 on 17 Jul 2022.
Persuasion has generally received mixed reviews.
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