Post by kijii on Nov 8, 2017 17:40:26 GMT
insert code hereinsert code hereI really enjoyed this movie.
It takes some concentration and love for Oscar Wilde's satire, but all comes out in an entertaining way at the end.
What I want to know is: Is this movie faithful to Oscar Wilde's play.
The synopsis of the play I found by googling fits perfectly with this great and fun movie:
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage.
The best-known line of the play sums up the central theme:
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Lord Darlington
The best-known line of the play sums up the central theme:
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Lord Darlington