Greatly Entertaining, but diverges from book and time period.

Rating: 7/10 (25 September 2017)

This is one of my favorite movies ever. I may be biased because I'm a sucker for romance and have not yet read the book, but this movie was done well. The soundtrack fits what is going on in the film and you can definitely tell what songs go with what characters. The sound track also helps connect the parallels throughout it's entirety. They really give some interesting perspective. I have watched this movie many times and each time I notice something new. For instance all of the little scenes between Darcy and Elizabeth that hint that they are attracted to each other without being super blatant. I love the portrayal of love and hate between the two as well. There is also something that goes unsaid in the movie that I noticed. The scene where Elizabeth and her Aunt and Uncle are visiting Darcy's house and Elizabeth stares at this marble statue that is veiled women, I believe that she really relates to it and is captivated. Then she sees Darcy's marble bust and realizes that he is kept to the impossible standards that she is. There are many scenes like this in the movie that I just adore. The director really used the full range of movie making tools for this movie. There is a scene where the lighting is just excellently used. Elisabeth has just had this big fight with Darcy and denied his proposal and she is staring at a mirror and the light changes through the scene implying a time change but also a lot of thought and reflection. Then Darcy comes in and leaves her a letter and there is a voice over of him reading the letter. The lighting really showed her thinking about it and her opinion changing of him. I know that this movie greatly diverges from the book, but the movie aspects of it were done right. It might not have been historically accurate or exactly like the book in every which way, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. It's a well done film, just different from the source material, like all other film adaptations of books.