Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Rated 3.5 / 5 from 1 log on Katalog
Watched this after the Terrible No Good Adaptation From Hell, just to make sure if I remember it correctly. And I do. It’s a very decent watch. It stays true to the source material a lot better, even if the production budget is four apples and a prayer. Tom Hardy plays a very interesting Heathcliff, more manic and neurotic than manipulative than I pictured him but it works. It balances the character out in an interesting way. Brontë has this androgyny to her characters that love, and Hardy embraced the spirit of it, if not the letter. He plays a Heathcliff with several shades of femininity we don’t often see in interpretations of the character. Moreover the key aspect is preserved: the watcher is aware that this is not a love story. This is emotional dysregulstiom, misplacement, projection and trauma. Only an adolescent could see this romance as legitimate. The older you get and more experience you have with romantic love, you see the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff as fundamentally and inescapably juvenile and doomed to be dissolved rather than solved. This adaptation captures at least some of that interesting dynamic - a bit like the modern term if comphet, this version at least tries to tackle the themes of a love that should never have been romantic but was understood as such because those idiots couldn’t comprehend it could be anything else.
