tbqb12

my stupid mouth
2004-01-16 21:09:41 (UTC)

i capture the castle

i have this habit of renting movies, beginning to watch
them, and finding out they're forgeign. i remember the
time i rented this film set during wwII about this couple
who was hiding a jewish man, but it was in
czechoslovakian...i think anyway. luckily, it had
subtitles. the movie i rented last night (i capture the
castle) was in english, fortunately, but it was a british
movie. at least i could understand it. and i like british
accents.

it was such a good movie. i was really surprised. despite
the fact that the family was really screwed up, i enjoyed
the characters. the main character, who pretty much
narrated the story, fell in love with her sister's fiance.
but the sister, rose, didn't even love the guy; she was
only marrying him for his money, and it wasn't a totally
selfish reason because she wanted to take care of her poor
family with the money, too. then there was this guy,
steven, who worked for the really screwed up family even
though they hadn't paid him in months/years. he loved
cassandra, but she loved the fiance, and the fiance loved
rose even though she didn't love him. rose loved the
fiance (simon)'s brother, neil. in the end, rose and neil
run off to be married and cassandra and steven find them
together at a hotel-type thing. cassandra tells steven
(who has run off to london to be a model after he gets an
offer from someone related to simon and neil) that she
doesn't love him. steven is the one who tells neil that
rose doesn't love simon so that simon will be free to love
cassandra...except simon doesn't love her! so even though
rose and neil end up happy, no one else does. i loved it!
finally, a movie without a happy ending.

secretly, i did want a happy ending. i really wanted
cassandra and simon to end up together because she loved
him so much that it hurt her. and she spent so much time
helping everyone else and holding herself responsible for
everyone else's happiness. *sigh* the last lines of the
movie were "i love. i have loved. i will loved." and
even though they made me feel like i was in an english
class, i liked them. good ending. two thumbs up.

i just realized two things: a) my english teacher would
kill me for not writing what i just wrote in the historical
present tense and b) no one cares about anything that i
just wrote anyway. plus, i ruined the ending for anyone
who would ever want to see that movie.




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