Love and Misunderstanding

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2012)

Despite how much money and treasures one has, it can never fill one's emptiness that needs to be full, that emptiness is love.
I'm not a big fan of the romance genre there are very few stories I really like and love. "Pride and Prejudice" is one of my favorite romance story because it's one of those rare cases of a romance story done the right way of it's sense of honesty, romantic tension and banter, but most of all the universal effect it's had on most other romance stories done right like the TV show "Castle" as well as the Japaninese Anime TV show "Macross" which in a way is a sci-fi retelling of the literary story, and plenty more out there and to come.
The cinematography and location is great. We see from the wide shots to some medium shots, the look and feel of a 17 century England long ago. From the wide lawn the characters cross, weather conditions, open space of where the houses are located, to the interiors of ballrooms or of the wealthy. One memorable moment in the film that stood in my mind the most like the ballroom scene, when both of them dance with one another and soon everyone else fades from the room, as if both can for a moment see into each others hearts. The music score it is just beautiful just fits into the film perfectly.
Thanks to perfect casting everyone seems to portray their characters with accuracy and understand them. Keira Knightly one of my favorite actresses was just perfect as Elesbeth Bennet because she literally is the character. What's there not to love about her; Liz is beautiful inside and out from her intellectual interest in books and art, she never lacks courage, has some fire in her, prideful, funny, and kind. Matthew Macfadyen as Mr.Darcy is portrayed just right; brooding, just as interested in the same things as Liz, prideful also, but a bit of an loner and shy, which is why on the surface he looks a bit stiff. One moment with him which I always thought was funny was when he walks in a room immediately to talk to Liz but he kinda chokes in the moment by not saying anything or just can't think of anything to say he even looks like he was going to sweat, and then just walks out quickly like he's going to run. I thought that was funny because it was true I've been there a few times before, to some talking to someone of the opposite sex for the first time is easy but to people like Darcy and me that are men of few words not so much. Though it really is easy by nature it just doesn't look that way at first.
Consciously both think they dislike each other, yet subconsciously both have an undying attraction and fascination with one another. Even though LIz says she swore to loath Darcy for all eternity she doesn't really take her words seriously. That feeling of dislike is really nothing more than a mask for what they both really feel for each other which is love. Like most of Austin's stories the pacing does come off a bit slow but you get use to it because it helps in order to create a suspenseful but gradually build up. We want both of them to get together but like in most romances they have to go through common obstacles like totalitarian like restrictions, personal politics, or even falling in love with the wrong people in the guise of the right person. As well as the steps of taking off that mask of theirs and learn to like and love one another. It's a matter of patience but it's well rewarded and leaves us with a good feeling which is something I don't get much.
True love is closer than we think.
Rating: 4 stars