Not sure I like this version. This Tess seems too intentionally tempting when the book makes it absolutely clear that she is unaware of her effect on people. Check out the part where she says, "I'm ready". She acts like a cheap streetwalker doing the perp walk. Waddel's performance is like this throughout. I prefer the newer version with Gemma Arterton. It seems truer to the spirit of the character.
"I'll never leave you, whatever you have done", these words should be a vow all the young couples give each other at the wedding ceremony, instead of empty promises of "happy ever after" they dreamily promise, quite unaware of what is to become of their tender feeling.
It is more than mere courage or love to accept a person as he is, without flinching at the thought of his past.
Its rather sad to think how women used to be abused, and probably still are in many places. She was abused by both men, in different ways but just as hurtful.
In her place I would have probably killed both of them. But they deserve a slow and painful death, maybe a fancy poison of some sort.
Why does Hardy always have to write such depressing stories....what a very sad ending and Angel couldnt even give her hope of seeing him in the afterlife. sad sad very sad!
Yes, Tess WAS kind of crazy, but think about all she's been through. She's been traumatized throughout her life, beginning at the mere age of 16. She was raped, impregnated, treated as an outcast for something that wasn't her fault, then her baby died, she then fell in love, got married, and the same day was completely defiled and rejected by her soulmate. Later she worked strenuously for several months, her father died, then she married the one man she despised the most, then killed him.
I mean think of all the trauma she went through just from killing someone, especially her husband. Her saying what she did to Angel in part 20 is justifiable because what if he didn't love her anymore? She would have killed Alec for almost no reason. Tess only experienced true happiness very few times in her life, and although the ending is sad, there's a tiny glimmer of hope towards the end, and she still died as "A Pure Woman."
I'll have to read the book now, but this film seemed allegorical to me. Tess as mankind, Angel as redemption and the hope of heaven, Alec as damnation and the dread of hell.
@nightswimmer99 I hated this movie and thought it a waste. but after I read your comment I realised this actually meant more than a romance. wow. so the author actually used symbolism to try to show much more than we as humans can see. hmm.. I still won't read the book though.
Angel comes out the worse in this story, alright he had a little solace in Lisa the sister been his intended for the future, but in Tess he had his soul mate and there's only one of them in this life per person, if you're lucky enough to ever find them.
Even throughout this movie/book the entire story can't be seen through and through. if someone had ever lost a child, father, brother, sister, mother, and then regained them. Through the whole process of finding love with in your life, only to never be able to touch, feel, or smell it on the lips of another, in the embrace of a loved one, or even in the eyes of a true friend. That's why she wakes up and crys his name, that's why she cherrishes every second with him, because he will soon be gone.
Tess leaves his garb and himself as a sort of encumberance, she is determined to distrust depth of his feeling for her and announces him quite changeful by her "And now i shall not live for you to despise me" . Hardy supposedly depicted Angel quite capable of cardinal changes, yet always looking for clarity and virtue - his name is speaking enough - Angle Clare.
Tess could not meet his demands for a good wife, had they succeeded to escape to the continent.
She is so stupid...I mean,ok Alec did f...ed her life,and she had every right to hate him for the rest of her life,but I think that Angel did her far more wrong than Alec...because she loved him and trusted him and he just treated her like a filthy rag,and it wasn't even her fault,she was raped,for God's sake.....so terrible......I absolutely don't understand how she could forgive him.....for me he is the real monster in this story. I would have killed him instead.
During the May dance Angle proclaims himself to to be an agnostic. He confesses his indiscression to Tess and is forgiven. She confesses that she was raped, and he could not forgive her for something she could not prevent. She was not pure enough for him. How impossible it was for women.
>.> I still don't think she should have been murdered. And poor Angel. Losing his girl.... : / I feel more sorry for Angel, but I also feel sorry for her. Alec deserved to die, I don't think she should have died too. But I guess she felt that it was right that she did... Poor Angel : /
thanks for posting these videos. now i didn't have to read the book for school. but after watching this it was actually really good and i might give the book a shot.
@averus123 yeah me too. seems like a good film. the book should be even better. she was so stupid to kill that guy. now angel has lost her once again.. and now it is forever.
@Capretty130 I prefer the 2008 version. & I agree, the ending in the 2008 version was heartbreaking. After all Tess & Angel went through the 98 version's ending was lame with the captions on the screen. The way the 2008 version showed Tess in jail picturing the May dance and the "what if" they had spoken to each other then & had fallen in love & how things, especially the ending would have been so different.
@Capretty130 Tess in the 98 version, people say she was subtle but to me she was like that in every scene to where it came off more as emotionless. The 2008 Tess was subtle when it called for it, but she could also lay all of her emotions out there. Far better actress IMO.
@rachray83 Don't get me wrong, I love 2008 and I love Gemma Arterton's Tess. I don't like things in both versions though, I don't like the 98 ending, how bitchy Tess and Angel seem at points etc. In 2008 I don't like how they try to make Alec all good looking and the way some scenes are too melodramatic. I think my preference for this one stems from I like how they portray Alec and Angel better and that they let most scenes just play out instead of with too much music and melodrama
I gotcha. I just found the 98 version a bit dry & too subtle, to the point where there wasn't much of a jump from the casual scenes to the scenes were it was fitting to let the emotions go. IMO the 2008 Alec is handsome enough for Tess to have a bit of a crush on him at first, but he also has a creepy con artist look to him as well. A "too good to be true" look to him, so it worked for me. Watching Wives & Daughters, Justine's "Molly" isn't far from her "Tess"
@rachray83 I understand completely about Justine. And actually I tend to watch 2008 more than 98. But I still cry at 98's "It's Too Late" scene while I barely blink at 2008's. And I think that's where it all comes together for me.
what a sad ending, but i feel that im not too sad because at least he came back for her which was all i wanted even if they didnt live happily ever after. what i find interesting though is how when angel left her the first time, he said it was becuz he discovered she was not the woman he thought she was, and now he comes back and runs off with her even though she's even more less the woman he thought she originally was. that just shows how much these characters have grown over time which is nice
It's so sad how there is no one that is "evil" in this story, but the little faults [Alec for lust, the mother for ambition, and Tess for being blinded by love] eventually led to such a tragic consequence. This story is SO much better than Romeo and Juliet : /
I dont think Alec was ever really in love with Tess i think it was more of him seeing her has an object, and obbessed with her. I believe also that if her mother had properly prepared Tess for the world maybe she would've been better off. I think that also everyone is at fault because they didn't really think about their actions, and thats why they kept making the same mistakes and that is also why Tess died.
The music and the way she walks off with the police at the end cuts me and makes me well up every time i watch this. It's like a female Spartacus ending. Best version ever for me. Damn it, i'm going out for a run now.
I almost felt like crying but i felt so sad for her. She deserved so much better and Angel should have been her support from the start or else none of that would have happened.
Since everyone is discussing whose fault it is, I say the blame for the *tragedy* lies with the societal mores of the day, which blamed Tess as well as Alec for her loss of virtue. Alec is certainly to blame for seducing/raping her (the book is vague as to which occurs), but if society didn't consider her equally at fault, the rest of the tragedy would not have happened. It is easy for us, from our modern perspectives, to blame Angel. Yet he was a product of his cultural norms, until too late.
@Woodlander65 If you're gonna blame Angel, then you need to blame Alec for sure. Angel would never had left Tess had Alec not raped her in the forest.
@Xplay3093 Its exactly that reason it was Angel's fault, Alec was in darkness in what he done, so there was no hope with him and Angel was the key and the hope for Tess, but he fell, again, and by the time he realised it, it really was too late.
@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
@3ll3s true. And you've got to think about the fact that if she was set up as his mistress/wife, then he was raping her every time he made love to her. She wasn't into it, and he knew she was unwilling to be with him. Pity she was nuts.
@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
I can't say which version I like moe, the 2008 or this one. I like the actors better in this one but parts of the story better in the other however, I can't decide because I don't like the story, it is just too darn depressing. I just had to see both...but don't know if I'll ever watch them again...thanks for uploading though.
@fooddpanda True, but she killed alec because Angel told her (in the beginning) none of it changes because alec is still alive. Implying that as long as alec is alive you belong to him (since she obviously gave or was forced to give her virture to him.) They could have easily ran away but that would have defeated the purpose as to why he left her. If alec was dead he probably would have forgiven her. Also because as long as alec was alive the "sin" would always stay wil them. Alec would tell.
@samoan909 no--wuthering heights i can bear because cathy wasn't raped; her own selfishness caused most of what happened to her. plus, she and heathcliff die in the end, so they don't have to live without eachother.
I've got an very important question! Does anybody know if Angel really says to Mercy "There is no God, it's all a lie" in the BOOK?! Or ist it just in the film?
yes, it seems complex, but otherwise, what was the reason that they couldn't be together? Only one, Angel could't forgive her, her past, forgetting about his, if he loved her he would forgive, and it wouldn't take him so long. That reason was too foolish to end up like this. Lovers overcome far more seriuos reasons, than somebody's past.
That just shows how much of a serious issue a person's and particularily a woman's past must have been in Hardy's time. The love story is, in my eyes, a way to show the face of society.
@peacelovecubans It's a sad masterpiece. Angel and Tess should have been together forever. And he was supposed to marry Liza-Lu. Forgive me if I spelled her sisters name wrong. Lover's overcome more than somebody's past as Akkellaa said. They forgive and love and sacrafice and cherish and honor and hope and comfort in ones time for each other. Becasue their love is so strong and Tess and Angel's was. Though it seems a little wacky that she killed Alec.
They are by far my favorite star-crossed lovers. They love each other so much but despite all this love, they were not meant to be. It is so sad that they could not have had years of happiness; only stolen moments. This is the second versions i watch and I always cry throughout the most of the movie. Now, I just want to read the book and cry a little more. I'm sure (I know for a fact) that it's a great piece of literature.
I've never been so confused and unsure what to think than after that film... You can't just say: these are the good ones and that the bad ones, that person has done the right thing, the other wronged. It's just so complex that I feel unable to judge. It's tragic and that must suffice, it's tragic for all the ones having been involved.
T'as raison! Comme j'aime ce livre! Charlotte et Anne Bronte n'ont pas non plus écrit mal, mais Wuthering Heights serai toujours mon favori! Esperant que c'est pas trop mal, j'écris en Francais ; ) Mais comme tu es une Canadienne je pense tu parles/écris l'Anglais aussi bien, non?
my sentiments exactly- I watched the newer version *thumbs down* and afterwards I felt so confused I went for a ride on my biycyle and cried a little... I felt so strange and almost nauseated...a very odd reaction (and one that i have NEVER had before to a film) this earlier version is much better I reckon- something struck me as "off" with both angel and her- both slightly twisted and fatalistic right near the beginning when they chat in the woods .. anyhoo..I must read the book! :)
@moonstruckfaye Exactly, this is what makes great literature and art. Life is complex and tragic. Tragic because no matter what we do and how much we love and are being loved , life comes to an end and there is nothing after death. We are the only living creatures doomed to realize our inevitable fate and live with the consequences.
It was a rather good movie, though some parts were missing/changed compared to the book.
J3rek 1 month ago
A superb story
Qaesir01 2 months ago
I think this Tess is more beautiful than the 2008 Tess.
TheRabbitThatSmiles 2 months ago 2
@TheRabbitThatSmiles I completely agree.
cfrailty 1 month ago
I can't believe they hanged her!!!!!
FearlessDreamer93 3 months ago
@FearlessDreamer93 Murder carried stiff penalties in those days. It wasn't a life sentence, especially for a woman.
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I know he's done a lot of shitface things, but Oliver Milburn as Angel is so gorgeous that my heart hurts. 4:35, etc. *sigh*
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meow3585 3 months ago
I think that Angel carrie the guilt more than anyone else .
gmihut 3 months ago
the masterpiece version was soooo much better
musicisawsomelikemad 4 months ago 4
Not sure I like this version. This Tess seems too intentionally tempting when the book makes it absolutely clear that she is unaware of her effect on people. Check out the part where she says, "I'm ready". She acts like a cheap streetwalker doing the perp walk. Waddel's performance is like this throughout. I prefer the newer version with Gemma Arterton. It seems truer to the spirit of the character.
riverdaughter3 5 months ago 2
Say, did the love scene ever happened in the book? Or was that just added in. The text in the book did seem ambiguous.
AliaSparrow 6 months ago
"I'll never leave you, whatever you have done", these words should be a vow all the young couples give each other at the wedding ceremony, instead of empty promises of "happy ever after" they dreamily promise, quite unaware of what is to become of their tender feeling.
It is more than mere courage or love to accept a person as he is, without flinching at the thought of his past.
adecklo 6 months ago
have nothing been learned from blade runner -- unnecessary and distracting narration is bad.
murrungay 6 months ago
Its rather sad to think how women used to be abused, and probably still are in many places. She was abused by both men, in different ways but just as hurtful.
In her place I would have probably killed both of them. But they deserve a slow and painful death, maybe a fancy poison of some sort.
eldadevata 6 months ago
Why does Hardy always have to write such depressing stories....what a very sad ending and Angel couldnt even give her hope of seeing him in the afterlife. sad sad very sad!
Fabiennexxx 8 months ago 2
Sad movie with painful scenes. Poor Tess.
PhillyLucky7 8 months ago 2
Although it's such a tragic story, Thomas Hardy is brilliant.
CambioDestinazione 9 months ago
@CambioDestinazione True, this and Lifes little irony's and Wessex tales are my favourite Hardy story's.
barnabyfraser 9 months ago
This version, the 2008 version, whatever - Tess will always be to me Nastassja Kinski.
lunagroove 10 months ago
@lunagroove Same here. She brought such a passion and poignancy to the role that I have never forgotten.
simenaona 8 months ago
Yes, Tess WAS kind of crazy, but think about all she's been through. She's been traumatized throughout her life, beginning at the mere age of 16. She was raped, impregnated, treated as an outcast for something that wasn't her fault, then her baby died, she then fell in love, got married, and the same day was completely defiled and rejected by her soulmate. Later she worked strenuously for several months, her father died, then she married the one man she despised the most, then killed him.
GingerNinjaFiddler 10 months ago 11
I mean think of all the trauma she went through just from killing someone, especially her husband. Her saying what she did to Angel in part 20 is justifiable because what if he didn't love her anymore? She would have killed Alec for almost no reason. Tess only experienced true happiness very few times in her life, and although the ending is sad, there's a tiny glimmer of hope towards the end, and she still died as "A Pure Woman."
GingerNinjaFiddler 10 months ago
Angel would never have forgotten his hat.
wasabied 10 months ago
I'll have to read the book now, but this film seemed allegorical to me. Tess as mankind, Angel as redemption and the hope of heaven, Alec as damnation and the dread of hell.
nightswimmer99 11 months ago 3
@nightswimmer99 I hated this movie and thought it a waste. but after I read your comment I realised this actually meant more than a romance. wow. so the author actually used symbolism to try to show much more than we as humans can see. hmm.. I still won't read the book though.
pgill15 10 months ago
Angel comes out the worse in this story, alright he had a little solace in Lisa the sister been his intended for the future, but in Tess he had his soul mate and there's only one of them in this life per person, if you're lucky enough to ever find them.
A foolish man, but a maen.
FellowTownsman 11 months ago
Even throughout this movie/book the entire story can't be seen through and through. if someone had ever lost a child, father, brother, sister, mother, and then regained them. Through the whole process of finding love with in your life, only to never be able to touch, feel, or smell it on the lips of another, in the embrace of a loved one, or even in the eyes of a true friend. That's why she wakes up and crys his name, that's why she cherrishes every second with him, because he will soon be gone.
JackofB1adez 11 months ago
Tess leaves his garb and himself as a sort of encumberance, she is determined to distrust depth of his feeling for her and announces him quite changeful by her "And now i shall not live for you to despise me" . Hardy supposedly depicted Angel quite capable of cardinal changes, yet always looking for clarity and virtue - his name is speaking enough - Angle Clare.
Tess could not meet his demands for a good wife, had they succeeded to escape to the continent.
She was doomed
adecklo 1 year ago
why in god's name did alec shave his mustache?? it just made him look creepier
loyalfalconflutist 1 year ago
She is so stupid...I mean,ok Alec did f...ed her life,and she had every right to hate him for the rest of her life,but I think that Angel did her far more wrong than Alec...because she loved him and trusted him and he just treated her like a filthy rag,and it wasn't even her fault,she was raped,for God's sake.....so terrible......I absolutely don't understand how she could forgive him.....for me he is the real monster in this story. I would have killed him instead.
mohinni 1 year ago 4
@mohinni He had a legite reason, he was dying in brazil from a fever. Besides. He came back for her.
That's all that matters.
JackofB1adez 11 months ago
This Angel was SO cute, but Tess was big boned and less skilled an actress. When she tries to cry earlier on in the movie, it was horrid.
stillwaterguy04 1 year ago
damn sad sad
yallipop 1 year ago
During the May dance Angle proclaims himself to to be an agnostic. He confesses his indiscression to Tess and is forgiven. She confesses that she was raped, and he could not forgive her for something she could not prevent. She was not pure enough for him. How impossible it was for women.
minnesink 1 year ago
>.> I still don't think she should have been murdered. And poor Angel. Losing his girl.... : / I feel more sorry for Angel, but I also feel sorry for her. Alec deserved to die, I don't think she should have died too. But I guess she felt that it was right that she did... Poor Angel : /
ActingFireAqua 1 year ago
thanks for posting these videos. now i didn't have to read the book for school. but after watching this it was actually really good and i might give the book a shot.
averus123 1 year ago 4
@averus123 yeah me too. seems like a good film. the book should be even better. she was so stupid to kill that guy. now angel has lost her once again.. and now it is forever.
LucyraveswivxXx 1 year ago
I prefer this version in several aspects over the 2008 version except for the ending. I feel they capture the heartqche better
Capretty130 1 year ago 2
@Capretty130 I prefer the 2008 version. & I agree, the ending in the 2008 version was heartbreaking. After all Tess & Angel went through the 98 version's ending was lame with the captions on the screen. The way the 2008 version showed Tess in jail picturing the May dance and the "what if" they had spoken to each other then & had fallen in love & how things, especially the ending would have been so different.
rachray83 1 year ago
@Capretty130 Tess in the 98 version, people say she was subtle but to me she was like that in every scene to where it came off more as emotionless. The 2008 Tess was subtle when it called for it, but she could also lay all of her emotions out there. Far better actress IMO.
rachray83 1 year ago
@rachray83 Don't get me wrong, I love 2008 and I love Gemma Arterton's Tess. I don't like things in both versions though, I don't like the 98 ending, how bitchy Tess and Angel seem at points etc. In 2008 I don't like how they try to make Alec all good looking and the way some scenes are too melodramatic. I think my preference for this one stems from I like how they portray Alec and Angel better and that they let most scenes just play out instead of with too much music and melodrama
Capretty130 1 year ago
@Capretty130
I gotcha. I just found the 98 version a bit dry & too subtle, to the point where there wasn't much of a jump from the casual scenes to the scenes were it was fitting to let the emotions go. IMO the 2008 Alec is handsome enough for Tess to have a bit of a crush on him at first, but he also has a creepy con artist look to him as well. A "too good to be true" look to him, so it worked for me. Watching Wives & Daughters, Justine's "Molly" isn't far from her "Tess"
rachray83 1 year ago
@rachray83 I understand completely about Justine. And actually I tend to watch 2008 more than 98. But I still cry at 98's "It's Too Late" scene while I barely blink at 2008's. And I think that's where it all comes together for me.
Glindababy 1 year ago
what a sad ending, but i feel that im not too sad because at least he came back for her which was all i wanted even if they didnt live happily ever after. what i find interesting though is how when angel left her the first time, he said it was becuz he discovered she was not the woman he thought she was, and now he comes back and runs off with her even though she's even more less the woman he thought she originally was. that just shows how much these characters have grown over time which is nice
parisgala 1 year ago
It's so sad how there is no one that is "evil" in this story, but the little faults [Alec for lust, the mother for ambition, and Tess for being blinded by love] eventually led to such a tragic consequence. This story is SO much better than Romeo and Juliet : /
641413 1 year ago 6
universal message: mankind is flawed and women will always suffer the consequences because of this.
:)
xgabbiexhunniex 1 year ago 18
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xgabbiexhunniex 1 year ago
just so heart breaking :(
eurasianGirl12 1 year ago
I dont think Alec was ever really in love with Tess i think it was more of him seeing her has an object, and obbessed with her. I believe also that if her mother had properly prepared Tess for the world maybe she would've been better off. I think that also everyone is at fault because they didn't really think about their actions, and thats why they kept making the same mistakes and that is also why Tess died.
PoptartsCh0c0l4te 1 year ago 2
i wish the story could have just ended at 5:00
641413 1 year ago 4
The music and the way she walks off with the police at the end cuts me and makes me well up every time i watch this. It's like a female Spartacus ending. Best version ever for me. Damn it, i'm going out for a run now.
OurManInMarrakessh 1 year ago
I almost felt like crying but i felt so sad for her. She deserved so much better and Angel should have been her support from the start or else none of that would have happened.
tinkertoes1000 1 year ago 2
Since everyone is discussing whose fault it is, I say the blame for the *tragedy* lies with the societal mores of the day, which blamed Tess as well as Alec for her loss of virtue. Alec is certainly to blame for seducing/raping her (the book is vague as to which occurs), but if society didn't consider her equally at fault, the rest of the tragedy would not have happened. It is easy for us, from our modern perspectives, to blame Angel. Yet he was a product of his cultural norms, until too late.
ruairaidh 1 year ago
i blame the parents. i always do.
elizabethgaskelfan 1 year ago
i always thought he should have fought for her...because he didn't before...:(
noideawhattosay 1 year ago 2
it seems like everything shed been through had driven tess mentally unstable
TaylortheTuckerGirl 1 year ago
Shit...some people cannot take happiness
transfoby 1 year ago
Beutiful...
xxginaxx13 1 year ago
ive never cried so much after watching a movie in my life. justine is so pretty and such a talented actress
twix1771 1 year ago 2
she's freakin crazy yo
Darkgaiaman 1 year ago
Best ever version for me, lovely soundtrack as well at the end, what a heartbreaker.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
thank you for posting ;;;;great movie
selmoonneamt 1 year ago
i would be creeped out if i woke up and saw someone stare at me
tntdancer12 1 year ago
he couldnt forgive her being unpure but murder- hey what the hell... lol
jolenedamon 1 year ago 24
@jolenedamon Yeah tell me about it he forgives her for the lesser of two evils, I think he must be out of his mind as well.
ChaosControl1997 1 year ago
@ChaosControl1997
Angel's fault 100%, he would of ascended in Tess's eyes if he had done the right thing at the Durberville manor house.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
@Woodlander65 If you're gonna blame Angel, then you need to blame Alec for sure. Angel would never had left Tess had Alec not raped her in the forest.
Xplay3093 1 year ago
@Xplay3093 Its exactly that reason it was Angel's fault, Alec was in darkness in what he done, so there was no hope with him and Angel was the key and the hope for Tess, but he fell, again, and by the time he realised it, it really was too late.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
3ll3s 1 year ago
@3ll3s true. And you've got to think about the fact that if she was set up as his mistress/wife, then he was raping her every time he made love to her. She wasn't into it, and he knew she was unwilling to be with him. Pity she was nuts.
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@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
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@Xplay3093 but if alec had not raped her Tess wouldnt have changed in the way she did and have the same out look on life that had attracted Angel in the first place ... But I do think that Alec is mainly to blame for her downfall...
3ll3s 1 year ago
I can't say which version I like moe, the 2008 or this one. I like the actors better in this one but parts of the story better in the other however, I can't decide because I don't like the story, it is just too darn depressing. I just had to see both...but don't know if I'll ever watch them again...thanks for uploading though.
Moviestoexcape 1 year ago 2
they could have ran away instead, instead of kill him .
fooddpanda 1 year ago 5
@fooddpanda True, but she killed alec because Angel told her (in the beginning) none of it changes because alec is still alive. Implying that as long as alec is alive you belong to him (since she obviously gave or was forced to give her virture to him.) They could have easily ran away but that would have defeated the purpose as to why he left her. If alec was dead he probably would have forgiven her. Also because as long as alec was alive the "sin" would always stay wil them. Alec would tell.
she3ya 1 year ago
adorei o filme, tipicamente da era romântica
bigada
ana1az 1 year ago
this is probably a fairytale compared to wuthering heights.
samoan909 2 years ago 2
nice one:)
classicalgirl01 2 years ago
@samoan909 no--wuthering heights i can bear because cathy wasn't raped; her own selfishness caused most of what happened to her. plus, she and heathcliff die in the end, so they don't have to live without eachother.
achuonutube 1 year ago
Wait!!!! Angel was supposed to marry Liza-Lu!!! Oh well, no movie is perfect =-)
I think that this version and the BBC one both have their good parts and no so good ones...but they are both really good, in my opinion.
LoOkAtHiMfLy 2 years ago
I've got an very important question! Does anybody know if Angel really says to Mercy "There is no God, it's all a lie" in the BOOK?! Or ist it just in the film?
Quy 2 years ago
@Quy I read the book and I don't remember him saying it..I think it was just it the film...
GabbyGraffiti 1 year ago
i hate such ending...i'm a -happy-ends-fans :D hahha welll this film was gorgeous but really sad.,
dziobaczka18 2 years ago 6
I can't help thinking that she's a frigging whack job and he's nuts too for sleeping next to her.
oreo2725 2 years ago 31
@oreo2725
I think that in the end, they both became whack jobs. :P
hautxtalons 1 year ago
yes, it seems complex, but otherwise, what was the reason that they couldn't be together? Only one, Angel could't forgive her, her past, forgetting about his, if he loved her he would forgive, and it wouldn't take him so long. That reason was too foolish to end up like this. Lovers overcome far more seriuos reasons, than somebody's past.
akkellaa 2 years ago 4
That just shows how much of a serious issue a person's and particularily a woman's past must have been in Hardy's time. The love story is, in my eyes, a way to show the face of society.
Hellof7 2 years ago 7
I read this book once a month. It's truly a masterpiece.
peacelovecubans 2 years ago 5
@peacelovecubans It's a sad masterpiece. Angel and Tess should have been together forever. And he was supposed to marry Liza-Lu. Forgive me if I spelled her sisters name wrong. Lover's overcome more than somebody's past as Akkellaa said. They forgive and love and sacrafice and cherish and honor and hope and comfort in ones time for each other. Becasue their love is so strong and Tess and Angel's was. Though it seems a little wacky that she killed Alec.
SpecialAgentLane 1 year ago
They are by far my favorite star-crossed lovers. They love each other so much but despite all this love, they were not meant to be. It is so sad that they could not have had years of happiness; only stolen moments. This is the second versions i watch and I always cry throughout the most of the movie. Now, I just want to read the book and cry a little more. I'm sure (I know for a fact) that it's a great piece of literature.
Princess152433 2 years ago
I've never been so confused and unsure what to think than after that film... You can't just say: these are the good ones and that the bad ones, that person has done the right thing, the other wronged. It's just so complex that I feel unable to judge. It's tragic and that must suffice, it's tragic for all the ones having been involved.
moonstruckfaye 2 years ago 61
I totally agree with you on that point. But guess what? It's the more complex characters make the greatest stories. Think about Wuthering Heights.
Princess152433 2 years ago
T'as raison! Comme j'aime ce livre! Charlotte et Anne Bronte n'ont pas non plus écrit mal, mais Wuthering Heights serai toujours mon favori! Esperant que c'est pas trop mal, j'écris en Francais ; ) Mais comme tu es une Canadienne je pense tu parles/écris l'Anglais aussi bien, non?
moonstruckfaye 2 years ago
Ouais :) Vive le Québec. C comme vrm rare que j'écrive un commentaire en anglais sur une vidéo en anglais et qu'on me réponde en Français :P XD
Princess152433 2 years ago
my sentiments exactly- I watched the newer version *thumbs down* and afterwards I felt so confused I went for a ride on my biycyle and cried a little... I felt so strange and almost nauseated...a very odd reaction (and one that i have NEVER had before to a film) this earlier version is much better I reckon- something struck me as "off" with both angel and her- both slightly twisted and fatalistic right near the beginning when they chat in the woods .. anyhoo..I must read the book! :)
floriasephemera 2 years ago 6
@moonstruckfaye Exactly, this is what makes great literature and art. Life is complex and tragic. Tragic because no matter what we do and how much we love and are being loved , life comes to an end and there is nothing after death. We are the only living creatures doomed to realize our inevitable fate and live with the consequences.
Adamalgorithm 1 year ago
yeah, so sad! that's fate. everything comes in the wrong time in our life and there is only tragic in it!
Timmblock 2 years ago 2
That's so sad
:'(
CH4RL111 2 years ago
such a sad ending
sunflower3540 2 years ago 2