Keira Knightley—Elizabeth Bennet
Matthew Macfadyen—Mr. Darcy
The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five Bennet sisters - the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. - in Georgian England. All of them have been raised by their mother with one purpose in life: finding a husband. It is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife. Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr. Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing (and richer) but proud Mr. Darcy. Love is soon in the air for one of the Bennet sisters, while another may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness, including class, gossip and scandal.
I find this movie truthful.
We are often judge someone because of what other people saying about them. And, we usually hide what we really feel because of our foolish pride.
It is true that the carefully controlled and chess-like movements of polite society often conceal passionate hearts, keen minds, and rebellious wills. But high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet attempts to stay true to her ideals while her meddlesome mother schemes to get all five Bennet sisters married and to secure their family's fate at all costs. She refuses to abandon her independent and had scrutinizing ways to find true love and a faithful heart.
Pride and Prejudice is a wonderful movie. I love it because it is light, ironic, and straightforward. It will be popular always (because of the book), it is not just a love story, and it is full of criticism of the society and people who only play before each other and judge by appearances.
So I guess “Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.”
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