Hello again!
So, I saw this movie before Halloween had come and gone and had even started a blog post about it. Obviously it didn’t finish it when I had intended to. But I felt like procrastinating on everything else that I need to get done so I decided to buckle down and post this review.
The Characters:
Edith Cushing: The protagonist of the movie, Edith is a very intelligent woman whose goal in life is to become an author. Her father is a very wealthy businessman and Edith is his only child. After the death of her mother when Edith was a child, it was just her and her father. Sir Thomas Sharpe comes into her life the day that he goes the place of Mr. Cushing’s business in order to get a loan for a machine that Thomas is trying to create. Though Mr. Cushing views Thomas as a stuffy noble who’s only ever had others do the hard work for him, Edith sees Thomas as a man with a dream, a dream that is constantly pushed down. Needless to say, she can relate. After the mysterious murder of her father, Edith and Thomas marry and Edith moves to England with Thomas and his sister.
Sir Thomas Sharpe: Oh Thomas, I loved him so much. Though I’m definitely biased because I love Tom Hiddleston. Anyway, Thomas is a poor noble with a brilliant mind and a knack for creating amazing little devices and trinkets. Thomas has three loves, two are present from the very beginning and the third is very gradual. His first love is for the machine he’s trying so hard to build which will make mining the crimson colored clay his property sits upon so much easier. His second love is the love he holds for his sister Lucille. Growing up in an abusive household, Lucille had looked after Thomas and their only companions became each other. I don’t want to give spoilers (though I called it from the beginning) so I’ll conclude Thomas’s character summary by saying that his third love was the slow love that formed for Edith. Obviously his initial interest in her was the money she inherited after the death of her father, but Edith’s caring nature slowly won her into his affections.
Lady Lucille Sharpe: Okay, Lucille is probably one of my favorite messed up characters in the world. As a young girl with an even younger brother to look after, Lucille would often take beatings as a child so that Thomas would be spared the brutality. Lucille is very possessive of the things she holds dear and has a “If I can’t have it then no one can” attitude. She’s the enforcer in every horrible thing that goes down at the estate. Whereas Thomas despises causing pain in creatures and tries to give everything it’s best chance, Lucille enjoys it, she likes feeling powerful.Lucille is the antagonist in this movie but I liked her attitude.
Opinion time!
I was so in love with this movie. From start to finish it was absolutely brilliant. What I liked most was that it wasn’t just a horror movie. What I mean by that is that instead of a bunch of teenagers going into the woods and getting murdered by a hook-man or whatever, it had an amazing plot line and astounding character development. Each character is intelligent in his or her own way, whether it be intuition or cleverness or even just being able to recognize danger, they are each gifted in their own way. Aside from that, there was a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why everything happens. Edith doesn’t question Thomas’s motives because she was overcome by grief from her father’s unexpected death and she recognized him as a friend due to the fact that he was a dreamer. With some additional wooing that Thomas had done earlier, Edith eagerly latched onto him in her time of need. Why didn’t she just go with her kind doctor friend? Well, how many girls actually end up with the friend that they’ve known forever? Thomas was mysterious and that in itself is alluring. Add in Tom Hiddleston’s face and it’s almost too easy for the Sharpe siblings to lure Edith into their trap.
I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone with the social maturity and capacity to handle a bit of nudity and a bit of gore. It’s a gorgeous movie and I’ve been trying to convince several of my friends to take me to see it again.
Happy Watching,
Maddison C. Jones
In My Opinion 