'Persuasion' is a subpar Jane Austen adaptation. But many of its critics are missing the point 📝: Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek)
) who has fallen on hard times. Anne is bright and sensible and kind, but neither her father nor her two sisters appreciate her. And at 27, she remains unmarried, with no prospects on the horizon. Eight years earlier, she’d been deeply in love with a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth , and he with her. But a close family friend, Lady Russell , had urged her to break off the couple’s secret engagement, believing the match beneath her.
Part of that sequence is included in the movie’s trailer, and you can’t fully blame the Austenites for blanching at it. But there’s still plenty to appreciate in thisthe costumes are stripped down to an earthy elegance—simple linen coats take precedence over the usual coy, big-brimmed bonnets. And we may have the success ofs inclusive casting, but this is the direction all adaptations of classics should be moving in. These stories belong to everyone.
And if Johnson flails in some of the movie’s jokier moments, she’s subtly moving in its quieter ones. Both she and Cracknell grasp what’s at stake for Anne: it’s rare to get a second chance at happiness, especially after you’ve let others talk you out of following your own instincts. Johnson plays Anne as a woman who finally knows her own mind—which also means she’s deeply in tune with her own vulnerability and fears.
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