Well acted, beautiful production. HORRIBLE STORY!!! Not in the quality of the story, but in the miserable wretched journey you take with these people you start to care about and how it all comes to this frustrating, depressing end!! I for one don't enjoy watching people's mistakes and wanting to reach through a screen and slap sense into people. I don't find that entertaining. I never read the book obviously or else I'd have known what I was getting myself into. Now I wonder if this is a complete work of fiction or if it's based on anything from real life, but I personally wish I could forget this story now. Call me a romantic, but if I have to go on this torturous journey with a character through all sorts of suffering I want there to at least be something that was worth going through it at the end. Like in Jane Eyre. This story has no redemption for the characters, just more misery and regret and heartbreak.If you want to be disturbed or haunted by a heartache, this is perfect! If you want to see anything resembling hope or beauty in life, steer clear!!! I guess for all the atheists out there who look at life as a struggle followed by obliteration this is perfect!
Review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles
