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Jane Eyre - Movie Review
GRADE: A-
From the introductory sequences of director Cary Fukunga’s Jane Eyre,it is obvious that the adaptation would lead towards emphasizing the Gothic elements of Charlotte Bronte’s original novel. The film opens, the audience sees 18-year old Jane Eyre running into the country in a directionless path. While context is absent within the opening segment, this so-far meaningless fragment of the film is devastating. The striking cinematographic images and the poignant score within this scene quintessentially evokes a modest subtlety of sorrow. With this subtlety the director forms an expansion of this subtlety throughout the film, creating an adaptation that is undoubtedly haunting and a true representation of Bronte’s original vision.
This film based on the novel of the same name is a coming-of-age story of orphan Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska). The film first tells its story by alternating between memories of the protagonist’s dreadful experiences at her charter school, and her present-day growth into an independent and expressive woman. After the background of the character is established, the film primarily focuses on Jane Eyre, and her romantic relationship with her employer, the Byronic character of Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). Much of the novel’s main core is cut in order to shorten the length of the film, but the essential thematic elements - feministic independence, love and passion - remain in tact and prevalent; Absent are the elements regarding with religion and atonement. Overall, the film depicts Bronte’s novel in a manner that seems complete, that only slightly loses some coherence, due to the fact that it is principally told in a cookie-cutter manner of storytelling. But what makes Fukunga’s film unique from other interpretations of the novel lays not in the plot, but in the technical production value. Dario Marianelli’s haunting score along with Adrio Goldman’s cinematography, formulates each moment into an emotional tug highlighting the underlying darkness of Bronte’s work.
