Voices Of Our Time - Sylvia McNair DVD

Advantages: Beautifully shot.
Disadvantages: Slow, sometimes a little dreary, didn't cover her poetry enough.

..., but at no time was I bored, or my mind wandering. I was just caught up in the story about what drove Sylvia to her ultimate suicide attempt. This isn't a spoiler, as historically this is a well known fact. If this film is correct in it's portrayal of the events between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, it seems apparent to me, that his treatment of the emotionally fragile state of Sylvia did nothing to enhance her confidence in personality, with his many torrid affairs, going on under her very nose. Sylvia's initial irrational jealousy and vivid imagination may have driven Ted into infidelity, or maybe it would have happened anyway. Ted Hughes was an attractive charismatic straight talking man, and this drew women to him like moths to a flame, and with his career as a poet more prominently respected and recognised by society of the day... Read review

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...****************************************************************** TITLE: Dirty Shame, A RATING: ****½ CAST: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Sheperd, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Jackie Hoffman, Nicholas Noble, Lucy Newman-Williams, Scott Morgan, Wes Johnson, David A. Dunham, David Moretti, Jeffrey Auerbach, Jewel Orem, David Hasselhoff. DIRECTOR: John Waters SCREENWRITER: John Waters STUDIO: New Line Cinema / Fine Line Features / This Is That / Killer Films RUNNING TIME: 89 min. RATED: NC-17 (US) & 18 (UK); for some nudity (both male and female), pervasive & frank sexual talk/language, adult subject matter, comic violence, and squirrel sex. DVD AVAILABILITY: 6 GBP on Amazon; ASIN # B000A3OON6... Read review

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Advantages: Good acting, excellent performances.
Disadvantages: Expected a little more of Plath's background

...Viewers drawn to this film will probably already know, to an extent anyway, of the life, marriage and death of Sylvia Plath. I imagine or I suspect that many who have heard of Plath and are thus interested in seeing this film will know of the tragedy and the darkness that this film will ultimately portray. For those coming to view Sylvia, with no prior knowledge of the poet's life, they will ultimately learn of her later life, marriage and subsequent tragic death. I am not giving away the plot here, I'm not giving away the ending of the film, I'm simply stating facts, this film is all about the journey of a life, the ending is not of no consequence but just inevitable. The film begins from the time that the American born Plath was at Cambridge where she meets her soon to be husband, Ted Hughes. They are both poets... Read review

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