Next on my book list is Great Expectations. However, I am quite impatient. So, I caved and watched mini series with Douglas Booth. I was very enraptured by it. It was well done.
Miss Havisham is the embodiment of female crazy. She was heartbroken by the one guy who Abel Magwich wants to kill. She even says something about how your heart breaks and it feels like you're going to die but you just keep living. She has a point. That is the thing about heartbreak, you feel like you're going to die and you want to curl up into this little ball. You want to let Takotsubo overcome you. Anything to alleviate the pain. Yet, there you are. You're forced to resume life as normal. To resume it as though nothing has harmed you in life. You are to go to work, church, and all things with a smile on your face, even though all you feel is this gut wrenching pain that tears through your heart and fills your veins with a poison that is almost debilitating. That is heartbreak. She hit the nail on the head. However, most people take this pain and experience it. They let it hurt for awhile and then move on. They find another person to love, though they may be more guarded this time. Some people build up walls. Some people become cold. Yet, no one I know comes close to this woman. She goes in and asks a lawyer to find her a girl to adopt. She refuses to wear anything but her wedding dress. She doesn't comb her hair. She doesn't even clean the house, not even the bathroom. Everything is covered in cobwebs and decay. She's so fixated on this stupid man that broke her heart years ago that she completely forgets that humans feel pain. She molds this girl into a heartless heart breaker. She molds this small girl into, frankly, a complete bitch. She lets her build men into loving her and then she crushes them, deep down to their cores. Miss Havisham's goal is to build the woman that she longed to be. The woman who wouldn't have fallen so readily in love with a man who wasn't there for love. The woman who held the power and control over the man. The woman who was prepared for hurt by not actually loving. The woman who I used to be able to identify with on some level. She molded this child into a mean person, who surprisingly found someone to break her down.
The true beacon of light is Abel Magwich. A convict who lost everything and found it again in a young boy. Abel once had a wife named Molly and a little girl. He was a true family man. That is, until one of his buddies decided to try to get it on with Molly and she cut him. Molly was then put on trial for attempted murder, she was saved. Abel was left without a wife and daughter when Molly stayed with a lawyer and gave her kid up for adoption. Abel escaped and found Pip, who was nice to him when he wasn't required to. That kindness turned around and Abel took Pip in as his own by becoming a benefactor to the young man.
Might I say before starting about Pip that Douglas Booth is very attractive. Anywho, Pip is this poor orphan who upsets a bunch of people, falls in love with the wrong chick, and yet still manages to be okay. He starts out as an orphan in a house with this abusive as hell older sister, whom I hated from the first scene and her husband, Joe. Joe is a blacksmith who has this apprentice who just looks like a dirty guy and kind of grossed me out because teeth are important. Pip gets signed up to go to Miss Havisham's once a week, her goal is to break his heart. He actually falls in love with the young Estella. He gets word that he has a benefactor and moves to London. He becomes good friends with a kid he punched in the face back in the day named Herbert Pocket. His life is lavish. He loses Estella to this dick named Drummle, whom I hate as well. Drummle makes Estella a widow when the horse kicks him in face. He deserved it for whipping the horse like the abusive person he is. Pip ends up being the one that breaks down Estella's cold heart.
Estella is a bitch. She's molded by her mother to be so. She is all about breaking hearts. She ends up being in love with Pip, so all is well in the end.
Clearly, this is different than the book. It usually is with movies. I enjoyed it though. I found each character to be easily likable or completely disagreeable, without any gray area.
I found myself crying at certain parts and cheering at others. I had much to say about Havisham, especially at how seemingly crazy she is. Yet, I justified it above. At least I found a way to make it make sense to myself.
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