I have been extremely neglecting my blog so I'm trying to get through a few posts this weekend. Right now I am watching Onegin in my room. The last movie extremely disappointed me, so I'm crossing my fingers that this one will be better, and maybe not so boring.
And alas, it turned out to be a good movie.
Ralph Fiennes plays bored as hell playboy Eugene Onegin living in St. Petersburg, Russia in the Empire Period (I don't know what that means either). Onegin inherited money, a mansion, a ton of land and a heck of a lot more from his uncle who passed away. Like any other rich bachelor playboy, he uses the house as a place to "crash" and is snobby to most of his country side neighbors. One of his neighbors is a beautiful Tatyana (played by a very stunning Liv Tyler) who, feeling such strong emotions for Onegin, writes a passionate letter to him. Onegin originally doesn't care, and throws the letter in the fire, but then takes it out of the fire before it burns completely to actually read it. Onegin reads it over and over and at Tatyana's birthday, he tells her that she's too young to feel that way about him, also that he is the absolute wrong person to get involved with. After many years and controversy stemming from Onegin and Tatyana's family (no spoiler here), Onegin realizes his mistake but it is too late because Tatyana got married and didn't love him the way she used to (I spoiled it, sorry).
I enjoyed this movie SO much more than Oscar and Lucinda, because there was an actual plot with this one. I really enjoyed it despite knowing what was going to happen with the two individuals. But what do I love most about this movie besides it being extremely predictable? The fact that it is one of Ralph Fiennes' many roles as being the tormented lover. He does an amazing job at playing the insane, sadistic psycho but even better at the passionate, anguished gentleman. I won't lie, so far in this journey my favorite tortured dearest role of his has to be Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. But there are so many more distressed admirer roles of his I have yet to get to. I am very happy to be back in this blog!
No quote today, sorry the movie was a week overdue at the library and I had to turn it in right after I finished!
See you next post!
And thanks for keeping up with it.
I'm glad to hear this movie is worth seeing it is one I've never seen before but have seen at the video store (not sure if I can get now) and wasn't sure I should check it out. I know Oscar and Lucinda was a bust and not a movie I would recommend either so I'm glad you are continuing on and coming across other movies I'd like to see
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