Why Netflix, why?! Persuasion (2022) review

    So after seeing the reviews of this film I decided to give it a try to see if Persuasion (2022)  is really that bad. INCLUDES SPOILERS!

Summary: Anne Elliot cannot forget her past romance with Frederick Wentworth, who suddenly re-enters her life. Anne must either try to forget the past or give it another chance.

    First I must say that I already wrote a few thoughts I had after just watching the film. You can find it here if you're interested, but please note that it is not a proper review and is more like some notes.

    

    Ok, in my latest review of The Great I said that I could never imagine it without its comedy and modern vocabulary, but that's not the case for this film too. Because this is not The Great this is a Jane Austen book adaptation. I get the fact that Netflix is trying to reference Bridgeton as much as they can because it's good, but you just can't modernise something that isn't supposed to be modernised and also change the protagonist's whole personality. Really do words like "playlist" and quote "He is a ten and I never trust a ten."  sound like something Jane Austen would write?

    

    Anne is portrayed very differently: In the book, she is quite shy and introverted, but in the film, she is the other way around. Not to mention the fact that she is constantly breaking the 4th wall (talking to the camera). Anne is more like a hot mess in the adaptation and it actually makes me think of Elizabeth Bennet and that is not good, because they are very different characters. I mentioned this in my Reddit post, but I also expected to see more flashbacks because Anne and Frederick's most important and heartbreaking memories are from their past, and they are not present here at all. And there is no spice in this film whatsoever.

    There is no chemistry between Anne and Wentworth at all. And believe me when I'm saying this because I'm the type of person who still ships characters even though they don't match at all (*AHEM* Catherine and Peter). Literally every interaction Miss Elliot and Captain Wentworth have is super awkward and they barely talk. And then at the very end, BAM LOVE LETTER AND "ANNE I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU AND BLAH BLAH". Like really now Netflix, if you're going to modernise something at least give us spice. 

    Also, one more thing, while everyone seems busy arguing about how bad this film actually is, I'm busy arguing about how I actually liked Cosmo Jarvis in the role of Frederik Wentworth. A lot of people say that Henry Golding (Mr Elliot) should have played that role and I do understand why. I mean look at this man, he is so fine:

                                        But so is this man, Cosmo Jarvis:

        And yeah I just think that the role of Mr Elliot suits Henry Golding much better. In the end, I'm going to say that the movie was mediocre for a Netflix movie, but for a book adaptation especially Jane Austen it was HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE in fact. I give it a 3/10 and I don't even see the point in talking about historical accuracy.