Product: Becoming Jane [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 5.0
Takes Austen Back to Her Roots
I have read all of Jane Austen, but am no scholar of her life.But still, it is clear from the books that, at bottom, everything is about The Money.Margaret Atwood said that American novels tend to be about religion, one way and another, whereas British novels tend to be about class (read: money).Certainly, the problems most of Austen's heroines face (or create) have to do with class, and money.This movie explains why: Jane is faced with the choice of marrying for love, or marrying for money. She chooses option C: not marrying at all, and making money by her writing.In a very telling scene at the end, she tells Wisley, her rich suitor, that in her books her heroines will get to have both. But she herself (at least in this version) doesn't.Dark and tempestuous and revealing.Very good.