5/10/2023 0 Comments Persuasion dakota![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, imagine being Phoebe Waller-Bridge right now. It’s the sort of inelegant modernisation that allows one character to describe herself as an empath, and its comedic ambition peaks during a scene where Johnson says with a sigh, “There’s nothing worse than thinking your life is ruined, and then realising you’ve got much further to fall,” before immediately literally falling on her face. And while a lot of the reviews (especially the British ones) have an element of territorial outrage to them, they also contain a lot of truth. One called the film an all-time disaster, while another suggested the forceful imprisonment of anyone who was involved in its production. Persuasion’s reviews have been across the board awful. It is, hand on heart, one pencilly haircut away from straying into copyright infringement territory. No, it’s that she does all this while drinking wine from the bottle, crying in the bath and cuddling a small household pet. It isn’t just that Dakota Johnson’s Anne Elliott talks to camera, or even that she seems pathologically inclined to glance at us whenever anything happens whatsoever. ![]() ![]() Of all the adaptations that Jane Austen’s novel has suffered, this is by far the most ostentatiously Fleabaggy. Because, if it weren’t for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this new version of Persuasion would have never been made. ![]()
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