"Now they want to make a film For anyone lacking the ability To imagine the body, head in oven, Orphaning children they think I should give them my mother's words To fill the mouth of their monster, Their Sylvia Suicide Doll" ~Frieda Hughes From My Mother, in The Book of Mirrors
“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man would would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.” Sylvia Plath
The movie isn't completely focused on the fact that Sylvia dies, It's more about documenting the destructive nature of their relationship, idiots shouldn't allowed to watch this.
I don't know why Gwyneth Paltrow is impenetrable. Shes good actress I don't think anyone of her generation can surpass her, and seems to be a nice girl, yet I don't feel I can connect to her. She leaves that much infinitesimal space to be above all
This is kind of sad to watch because of Sylvia and how she reminds me of my mother who has been depressed for all most her whole life. She has also tried to commit suicide for years but has been better now because of her " finding Jesus" or something like that. I'm happy for her but I'm glad i'll move next year somewhere else and start univercity..
@dannimaggot I'm actually writing my senior thesis on this film and the depiction of Plath. There is a WHOLE LOT missing from this film. This isn't just Hollywood's view of her, but the popular view even in literary circles. But it is not an accurate depiction at all.
ruthless06, based on the ignorance of your statement, it would appear Twilight would actually be your favorite movie. The question of why the world would or wouldn't know Plath committed suicide has more to do with the quality of education across the international spectrum than it does with intellectual capacity. Your conveyance seems more robotic and conditioned, and therefore dumb than anyone else ignorant to the facts of Plath's life and death. Now sit next to mysticgirl1000 and get stuffed!
mysticgirl1000, would you shut your would-be highbrow, pseudo-intellectual face, and let people watch the movie, FFS! Obviously you know very little about Gwyneth Paltrow, let alone actors generally. It isn't by some form of osmosis or instant recall that these people manage to execute their respective roles, nor is it by some happenstance that they execute historical characters. It does more than your average quantity of gray cells. Go stuff your face with some popcorn, and let the rest enjoy!
like Hayek, also rich and privileged like Paltrow, who demeaned Frida with playboy photo shoots of topless Frida, Paltrow's lack of intelligence wasn't sexual exploitation like Hayek, but it revealed her intellecutal laziness.
surprising when you think that she has so many educational resources available to her. she did no reading with a critical intellect of what may have been the brits and the Hughes intentions in portraying Plath and this film's and publishing's defaming of her.
Does anyone know, why there are two different beginnings? I watched this movie in a theatre in America in fall 2003 and at the beginning she says: “Sometimes I dream of a tree, And the tree is my life. One branch is the man I shall marry And the leaves my children. Another branch is my future as a writer And each leaf is a poem. Another branch is a glittering academic career. But as I sit there, trying to choose, The leaves begin to turn brown and blow away Until the tree is absolutely bare.”
@anolta that's a reference to the bell jar. look up the bell jar excerpt about the fig trees. i've heard that they disallowed it because it was stating the words as about plath herself, and the book, although based on her, is not strictly autobiographical.
Sylvia Plath and Lorca are my two favorite poets. It's a shame that Plath commited suicide, she deprived the word of beautiful poetry. Read the Bell Jar, read Ariel, read everything she's ever written, she's brilliant.
@rkg77 please read comments carefuly: I said she WASN'T Welsh, but American!! my name is Piotr, but if I was born in China I would concider myself as Chinese!
@wawrzyn2001 and @monkies978 i find this debate interesting. Being American born to an Amer. born father of mex descent &mother as well i consider my self American, where others consider me Mexican...I adore Sylvia P's writings and have never seen anyone debate this..I'd say she was an American of such & such descent...but yeah, why does it matter we are all human
It sure beats the godawful version of The Bell Jar ( or based on The Bell Jar VERY loosely) that I saw recently with a really, really bad actress whose name I forget, and Julie Harris playing her mother. I'm so glad someone else made a movie about her, because that one was the worst thing I ever saw! Although this isn't much.
@ hendrikdevuile: where did you take the information from - the official sources are clearly stating, that her father was Russian and mother Dutch - since when it makes person Welsh???? besides- she was born in US which makes her American indeed!
I heard Karen Kukil ("The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath") give a talk in Northampton, Ma, and she spoke so eloquently about Sylvia. It was a beautiful and understanding discussion about and often mistakened woman.
Anyone who is surprise that Sylvia Plath committed suicide is really too dumb to watch this movie. Seriously. Go away and watch something brainless like Twilight.
@ruthless06 What a silly comment. Everyone is learning. You realise you didn't know that piece of information once and I don't think it made you any dumber.
@ruthless06 Incorrect. Just because somebody is not interested in poetry does not mean they're dumb. Hundreds of lawyers, scientists or scholars have better things to do than research a life of a psychotic American poet.
Better things like cater to the masses? Your ignorant summary of Plath as a "psychotic American poet" is just an example of your common brand of idiocy. The greatest artists had personal lives similar to Plath. Nobody will be thinking of lawyers and scientists when it really matters. They will remember music and art and the written word.
@UptownThriftStore Hah, alright, say that when u die of cancer while listening to Mozart or remembering Plath... Stick with this shit and your writers while I'll enjoy the beauty and benefits of science = still alive. I have better things to do than listen to your stupidity.
@daveyanna because both things really did happen in real life and have been publicisied a huge amount. through publicity and word of mouth, both the titanic and plath's death should be common knowledge for anybody who is not stupid. its not like i need to watch fucking 'Platoon' to know that the vietnam war happened.
This is the book club book I finished today. The clip is different but quite interesting. She was thought to be crazy but reading the book I believe she was only very depressed. SPOILER: she killed herself on Feb 11- ick. As if the book was not sad enough. Why do the women always die???
i hope you realize that 9 year olds also throw hissy fits, like you just did, over stupid things like saying sylvia plath died. anyone who watches this movie has most likely figured that out since this IS a true story.
Get "The Journals of Sylvia Plath". I'm doing a piece on her too, and her journals are really quite insightful. Also, there are various biographical books which are useful: A Closer Look At Ariel, Bitter Fame, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath and Letters Home: Correspondence. "A Closer Look..." is written by a girl who was roomates with after her first suicide attempt. It's really very interesting. I hope that helps.
anyone who's done any research on Plath should be highly insulted by this film. It's horrendously inaccurate. This is not an attack on anyone except the writer of the script and the director. Plath was NOTHING like this character and Never took Ted back. Ever. Her daughter Freida was also horrified by this film. And her opinion is really all that matters.
the only problem with the film is that it doesn't deal with her father where all her problems come from and the reason why she mentions the holocaust was because her father might have a scientist for them..now im not saying her father is a nazi..there's a rumor that he had something to do with it. and her mothers side of the family is jewish.
Plath's problems didn't stem from her father. In fact, most who knew Plath, as can be seen in old documentaries, agreed that she had no ill feelings surrounding her father. Even her poem "Daddy", which can come off as vilifying and accusatory actually has a great deal of irony in it. She was known to be outspoken about the love she had of her father. Also, I believe the nazi rumors are unsubstantiated here-say.
i'm in canada but i remember the first part being like a journal entry about wanting "a glittering academic career, being a mother, a poet....but as i sit there trying to choose they rot away"
It's based on a semi autobiographical book by Sylvia plath (same title as the film) which is about Plath's depression, her breakdown and treatment at a mental istitution- needless to say this was not a great time to be treated for mental illness as there was little understanding of the illness at the time and treatments were often cruel, such as electric shock therapy and labotomy (which doen't happen to plath) the main protaganist goes by the pseudonym Ester Greenwood
I quite liked the Bell Jar...Though I felt like shoving MY head in an oven after reading it, it was just so depressing...AND it didn't have Daniel Craig so you're probably right!
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Its not becuz Daniel Craig wasn't there, its becuz I honestly feel that The Bell Jar was badly written. Sylvia Plath is a magnificent poet, but a poor novelist...Hence it goes to show that not every poet can write a book and not every novelists can write poetry...it takes great skill to be good at both!
That's interesting, (I was only joking about Daniel Craig lol), I thought the bell jar was written well, in fact I prefered it to some of her poetry, which though was generally excellent some of her poems I completely took a disliking to, such as 'Daddy'. To be honest I think Hughs was a better writer than her.
No, I'm not, I just think it is incredibly self indulgent comparing her personal traumas with genocide! She wasn't jewish herself though! But other than Daddy I agree with you about her best poems, I think Ariel is the best collection, I personally prefer the restored edition
there are some parts of the bell jar in which, i agree, are "poorly written" as you would say; however, there are some brilliant parts to that novel that can be singled out. a lot of it's just dilluted through the rambling. perhaps it was the pressure of having a grant for the book or her interest in being able to describe peripheral things in a novel, rather than a poem. I read the book twice in a five-year span and i admire her ability to grasp those tiny details that many wittier writers lack
We don't know the reason why Sylvia Plath's son decided to kill himself but I imagine his mother's death and the fact that she died by her own hand affected his life.
In my comment above I wanted to question thistexaspoet's conclusion that the film had an optimistic ending...
GoldenGateNum9 3 weeks ago
“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man would would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.” Sylvia Plath
krisatsea 1 month ago
If idiots watch this and learn who SP is and what a great writer she was, they may learn something new. Idiots should watch.
bettyfelon1 2 months ago
The movie isn't completely focused on the fact that Sylvia dies, It's more about documenting the destructive nature of their relationship, idiots shouldn't allowed to watch this.
A2 english FTW
gredia 4 months ago in playlist Sylvia | The Movie
you people god...stop talking the freakin movie.
not4urknowing501 6 months ago
Sreiously guys, this movie is bad. Hollywood never gets Sylvia right, it's just god-awful.
SarahLeeAnn 7 months ago
I don't know why Gwyneth Paltrow is impenetrable. Shes good actress I don't think anyone of her generation can surpass her, and seems to be a nice girl, yet I don't feel I can connect to her. She leaves that much infinitesimal space to be above all
gpo66 8 months ago
Seriously, no way you could have uploaded this with better quality...?
wildebest 8 months ago
This is kind of sad to watch because of Sylvia and how she reminds me of my mother who has been depressed for all most her whole life. She has also tried to commit suicide for years but has been better now because of her " finding Jesus" or something like that. I'm happy for her but I'm glad i'll move next year somewhere else and start univercity..
lemonaciddreams 8 months ago
@lemonaciddreams I'm happy to know that your mom is better after a relationship with Jesus.
I also used to suffer from depression but started getting better after going to a Christian church.
Marielalaura 7 months ago
@lemonaciddreams That's lovely for her; Jesus isn't going to find me though.
xXFlyleafXx 6 months ago
here here
Frog869 10 months ago
I was wondering is this film true to Plath's life or is it a Hollywood view of her ?
dannimaggot 10 months ago
@dannimaggot I'm actually writing my senior thesis on this film and the depiction of Plath. There is a WHOLE LOT missing from this film. This isn't just Hollywood's view of her, but the popular view even in literary circles. But it is not an accurate depiction at all.
toloveinthird 10 months ago
I don't think he's cute much but Daniel Craig has beautiful eyes.....interesting film by the way
RealMaggot13 1 year ago
someone actually brought up twilight again!!!!!!!!
jethro035181 1 year ago 14
ruthless06, based on the ignorance of your statement, it would appear Twilight would actually be your favorite movie. The question of why the world would or wouldn't know Plath committed suicide has more to do with the quality of education across the international spectrum than it does with intellectual capacity. Your conveyance seems more robotic and conditioned, and therefore dumb than anyone else ignorant to the facts of Plath's life and death. Now sit next to mysticgirl1000 and get stuffed!
FMoran1966 1 year ago 3
mysticgirl1000, would you shut your would-be highbrow, pseudo-intellectual face, and let people watch the movie, FFS! Obviously you know very little about Gwyneth Paltrow, let alone actors generally. It isn't by some form of osmosis or instant recall that these people manage to execute their respective roles, nor is it by some happenstance that they execute historical characters. It does more than your average quantity of gray cells. Go stuff your face with some popcorn, and let the rest enjoy!
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MakyalaMarosa 1 year ago
WTF I watched a copy of this movie from the library and
the beginning she was reciting a poem about how a tree
is her life and leaves are like her poems, totally different.
sirussm 1 year ago
whr is part 2......??
TheSaswatam 1 year ago 2
@TheSaswatam If it had questionable content, they may have removed it:\
Kellims313 1 year ago
I wanted her to bite his cheek...
triplequeen 1 year ago
@triplequeen she does at 7:27
sirussm 1 year ago
@sirussm
Oh yeah...I didn't notice that.
triplequeen 1 year ago
like Hayek, also rich and privileged like Paltrow, who demeaned Frida with playboy photo shoots of topless Frida, Paltrow's lack of intelligence wasn't sexual exploitation like Hayek, but it revealed her intellecutal laziness.
surprising when you think that she has so many educational resources available to her. she did no reading with a critical intellect of what may have been the brits and the Hughes intentions in portraying Plath and this film's and publishing's defaming of her.
mysticgirl1000 1 year ago
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jethro035181 1 year ago
can anyone recommend some similar movies? im not only intrested in hollywood products..
ihugtheworld 1 year ago
and where is the part 2??
emiliankasemi 1 year ago
What's the name of the poem she first says? I haven't read that one of hers.
WEwalked 1 year ago
anolta 1 year ago
@anolta that's a reference to the bell jar. look up the bell jar excerpt about the fig trees. i've heard that they disallowed it because it was stating the words as about plath herself, and the book, although based on her, is not strictly autobiographical.
zandersharp04 9 months ago
Sylvia Plath and Lorca are my two favorite poets. It's a shame that Plath commited suicide, she deprived the word of beautiful poetry. Read the Bell Jar, read Ariel, read everything she's ever written, she's brilliant.
SaveYoshi 1 year ago
wow
XXRavethedrummerXX 1 year ago
This is one hard film to watch...
MiyahSummer 1 year ago
Daniel Craig is way to pretty to play Ted Hughes
WoWziKi 1 year ago
She is slowly becoming my favourite poet ever, I love her voice. And she actually bit Ted the first night she met him
Caitlaaan 1 year ago 2
@Caitlaaan you think shes great you should try anne sexton, now theres a poet
brightlights24 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this movie.
mistyaaa 1 year ago
wheres part 2?
KHeartsdiva54321 2 years ago
@rkg77 please read comments carefuly: I said she WASN'T Welsh, but American!! my name is Piotr, but if I was born in China I would concider myself as Chinese!
wawrzyn2001 2 years ago
@wawrzyn2001 and @monkies978 i find this debate interesting. Being American born to an Amer. born father of mex descent &mother as well i consider my self American, where others consider me Mexican...I adore Sylvia P's writings and have never seen anyone debate this..I'd say she was an American of such & such descent...but yeah, why does it matter we are all human
Joe4mBrownsvilleTx 1 year ago
It sure beats the godawful version of The Bell Jar ( or based on The Bell Jar VERY loosely) that I saw recently with a really, really bad actress whose name I forget, and Julie Harris playing her mother. I'm so glad someone else made a movie about her, because that one was the worst thing I ever saw! Although this isn't much.
rkg77 2 years ago
@ hendrikdevuile: where did you take the information from - the official sources are clearly stating, that her father was Russian and mother Dutch - since when it makes person Welsh???? besides- she was born in US which makes her American indeed!
wawrzyn2001 2 years ago
@wawrzyn2001 Gwyneth is a Welsh name, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's Welsh.
rkg77 2 years ago
@wawrzyn2001 her parents were both Americans since they were both born in America. Besides why does it matter?We're all human
monkies978 2 years ago 2
@monkies978
Actually her father was born in 1885 in Grabow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State, Germany.
But you are totally right, it doesn't matter at all where one is from! ;)
anolta 1 year ago
if Paltrow weren't american I would have said her american accent was phony
CarricThura 2 years ago
In fact she's Welsh (like Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins) and frequently goes back to Wales.
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
She's one of my favorite poets.
892lgy7382 2 years ago 5
AHHHHHH YOU ARE AWESOME thank you so much for uploading this, seriously.
eisenmannsayswhat 2 years ago 5
whoaaaa, the band right after 4:25 srsly scared me 8O
it was so sudden... --great cinematic move though, i have to say.
ClairePeine 2 years ago
haha agreed!
xD i'm watching it in the dark so i jumped out of my skin!
Love it though.
BlueDiamondGirl 2 years ago
Where are the other parts?!
kocabjean123 2 years ago
I hear that there's lot of sex in this movie so it probably got removed by youTube
SeanConnery9000 2 years ago
this is my favourite part.
fantanom123 2 years ago
On the DVD the exerpt at the begining was about a fig tree dying.....I liked that better
PoetryAddict8 2 years ago
I heard Karen Kukil ("The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath") give a talk in Northampton, Ma, and she spoke so eloquently about Sylvia. It was a beautiful and understanding discussion about and often mistakened woman.
septip123 2 years ago
isn't it strange how Smith College seems to hush up Plath's alumna status?
blindtommykiller 2 years ago 3
Anyone who is surprise that Sylvia Plath committed suicide is really too dumb to watch this movie. Seriously. Go away and watch something brainless like Twilight.
ruthless06 2 years ago 88
watch who u marry, girls...
mloaks 2 years ago 3
@ruthless06 What a silly comment. Everyone is learning. You realise you didn't know that piece of information once and I don't think it made you any dumber.
truemind 1 year ago
@ruthless06 exactly!! : )
CTWcauseiMissyou 1 year ago
@ruthless06 Incorrect. Just because somebody is not interested in poetry does not mean they're dumb. Hundreds of lawyers, scientists or scholars have better things to do than research a life of a psychotic American poet.
TheIkitta 11 months ago
@TheIkitta
Better things like cater to the masses? Your ignorant summary of Plath as a "psychotic American poet" is just an example of your common brand of idiocy. The greatest artists had personal lives similar to Plath. Nobody will be thinking of lawyers and scientists when it really matters. They will remember music and art and the written word.
UptownThriftStore 7 months ago
@UptownThriftStore Hah, alright, say that when u die of cancer while listening to Mozart or remembering Plath... Stick with this shit and your writers while I'll enjoy the beauty and benefits of science = still alive. I have better things to do than listen to your stupidity.
TheIkitta 7 months ago
I don't think you can spoil the ending by saying Sylvia Plath died, any more than by saying, "the Titanic sinks?!"
mf2101 2 years ago 102
@mf2101 .. how do you know that Sylvia Plath didn't die and the Titanic didn't sink unless you watch the movie?
daveyanna 5 months ago
@daveyanna because both things really did happen in real life and have been publicisied a huge amount. through publicity and word of mouth, both the titanic and plath's death should be common knowledge for anybody who is not stupid. its not like i need to watch fucking 'Platoon' to know that the vietnam war happened.
cwrees 5 months ago
@cwrees .. erm cwrees ... I was joking. Clearly you missed the heavy sarcasm.
daveyanna 5 months ago
@daveyanna haha sorry its hard to pick up on sarcasm when youtube is loaded with foolish comments and people.
cwrees 5 months ago
@cwrees .... No Problem. Elvis fans are rarely foolish (cheesy grin) ..
daveyanna 5 months ago
@cwrees ....I LOVE IT. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
MillionMHArmstrong9 1 month ago
@daveyanna .. oh oops. Apologies .. I forgot this wasn't Elvis' version of Sylvia! OK. oops. :)
daveyanna 5 months ago
@cwrees ....WELL STATED MY FRIED!
MillionMHArmstrong9 1 month ago
@MillionMHArmstrong9 fried egg?
AngeliaClaire 1 month ago
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This is the book club book I finished today. The clip is different but quite interesting. She was thought to be crazy but reading the book I believe she was only very depressed. SPOILER: she killed herself on Feb 11- ick. As if the book was not sad enough. Why do the women always die???
manrayyy333 2 years ago
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why tha fuck would u spoil tha film like tht..so rude damn grow up 9 year olds do tht!!
hottie425656 2 years ago
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mikelheron20 2 years ago
Please tell me you're joking.
mikelheron20 2 years ago
I think you should grow up "hottie"...throwing temper tantrums won't really make you look "cool" in any situation :/
cuti3bbz 2 years ago
i hope you realize that 9 year olds also throw hissy fits, like you just did, over stupid things like saying sylvia plath died. anyone who watches this movie has most likely figured that out since this IS a true story.
sing2this 2 years ago
you are aware that its a true story aren't you?
sammael911 2 years ago 4
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Y would you write this on the first video, when people havent even seen it yet. Just ruined the movie :(
sazleberry 2 years ago
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????????
the kiss between them was soo sudden!
WTF?!
nightviola 2 years ago
Thanks alot, I've got Bitter Fame and Im reading that..but "A closer girl" seems very good.
Thanks Again
sinny
blu4lyf1 2 years ago
I'm doing a piece on Plath about how she is controlled and mad. Anyone have any interesting references that can help me?
blu4lyf1 2 years ago
Get "The Journals of Sylvia Plath". I'm doing a piece on her too, and her journals are really quite insightful. Also, there are various biographical books which are useful: A Closer Look At Ariel, Bitter Fame, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath and Letters Home: Correspondence. "A Closer Look..." is written by a girl who was roomates with after her first suicide attempt. It's really very interesting. I hope that helps.
MiniZee 2 years ago
The Bell Jar which was a fictious autobiography of her.
intellectualman100 2 years ago
anyone who's done any research on Plath should be highly insulted by this film. It's horrendously inaccurate. This is not an attack on anyone except the writer of the script and the director. Plath was NOTHING like this character and Never took Ted back. Ever. Her daughter Freida was also horrified by this film. And her opinion is really all that matters.
stealingivy 2 years ago 9
the only problem with the film is that it doesn't deal with her father where all her problems come from and the reason why she mentions the holocaust was because her father might have a scientist for them..now im not saying her father is a nazi..there's a rumor that he had something to do with it. and her mothers side of the family is jewish.
allisonmoment1 2 years ago
Plath's problems didn't stem from her father. In fact, most who knew Plath, as can be seen in old documentaries, agreed that she had no ill feelings surrounding her father. Even her poem "Daddy", which can come off as vilifying and accusatory actually has a great deal of irony in it. She was known to be outspoken about the love she had of her father. Also, I believe the nazi rumors are unsubstantiated here-say.
iamnickd 2 years ago
Looks...interesting.
Daniel Craig is so awesome.
MySilentConflict 2 years ago 2
sylvia is geen topkut hoor jongens, enkel middelmaat, ottieM heeft zijn leuter al lang niet mogen gebruiken en zal dat ook nooit mogen doen, de loser
vipdoniser 2 years ago
i love sylvia plath.
angel48 2 years ago 4
Sylvia Plath is my hero!!
brett52stewart 3 years ago 2
Love u Sylvia:)
missmephistopheles 3 years ago 2
She bit his ear? Boy, he must have known what was coming.
zeppaby 3 years ago
It was his cheek.
kookyChimes 2 years ago
I thought she was reading lady lazarus?
24thingstodo 3 years ago
she is.
Mshobley 3 years ago 2
Thanx 4 uploading!!!!
kathaiti 3 years ago
what does it say in the magazine, when sylvia reads it alone, and is smiling?
xiasweetcjy182 3 years ago
She's reading "Fallgrief's Girlfriends", by Ted Hughes. You can easily find the poem with a google. Best wishes!
SouthSuavest 3 years ago
great thanks!
xiasweetcjy182 3 years ago
thanx so much
evilpride21 3 years ago
i'm in canada but i remember the first part being like a journal entry about wanting "a glittering academic career, being a mother, a poet....but as i sit there trying to choose they rot away"
ya?
ivano0o0o0 3 years ago
Thanks for putting this on - i love full films on youtube!
GeorgesBarras 3 years ago 9
sorry my mistake. forgot to put on my glasses.,.,. sorry
59017 3 years ago
wats this movie about
evilpride21 3 years ago
Sylvia Plath. A poet.
Euphorianna 3 years ago
It's based on a semi autobiographical book by Sylvia plath (same title as the film) which is about Plath's depression, her breakdown and treatment at a mental istitution- needless to say this was not a great time to be treated for mental illness as there was little understanding of the illness at the time and treatments were often cruel, such as electric shock therapy and labotomy (which doen't happen to plath) the main protaganist goes by the pseudonym Ester Greenwood
rahbag 3 years ago
oops I've just realised this isn't the bell jar it's just about sylvia plath's life...
rahbag 3 years ago 3
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This film is better than The Bell Jar
kathaiti 2 years ago
I quite liked the Bell Jar...Though I felt like shoving MY head in an oven after reading it, it was just so depressing...AND it didn't have Daniel Craig so you're probably right!
rahbag 2 years ago
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Its not becuz Daniel Craig wasn't there, its becuz I honestly feel that The Bell Jar was badly written. Sylvia Plath is a magnificent poet, but a poor novelist...Hence it goes to show that not every poet can write a book and not every novelists can write poetry...it takes great skill to be good at both!
kathaiti 2 years ago
That's interesting, (I was only joking about Daniel Craig lol), I thought the bell jar was written well, in fact I prefered it to some of her poetry, which though was generally excellent some of her poems I completely took a disliking to, such as 'Daddy'. To be honest I think Hughs was a better writer than her.
rahbag 2 years ago
That's interesting...I thought Daddy was one of her best poems, after Lady Lazarus, Cut, Mirror and In Plaster...
kathaiti 2 years ago 3
I just think that comparing her experience with her father to the holocaust was at best self indulgent at worst grossly disrespectful!
rahbag 2 years ago
But Sylvia Plath had Jewish ancestry, so I didn't find it disrespectful at all...
Do you mind me asking, are you Jewish?
kathaiti 2 years ago 5
No, I'm not, I just think it is incredibly self indulgent comparing her personal traumas with genocide! She wasn't jewish herself though! But other than Daddy I agree with you about her best poems, I think Ariel is the best collection, I personally prefer the restored edition
rahbag 2 years ago
there are some parts of the bell jar in which, i agree, are "poorly written" as you would say; however, there are some brilliant parts to that novel that can be singled out. a lot of it's just dilluted through the rambling. perhaps it was the pressure of having a grant for the book or her interest in being able to describe peripheral things in a novel, rather than a poem. I read the book twice in a five-year span and i admire her ability to grasp those tiny details that many wittier writers lack
passara1 2 years ago 4
Well, It was advertised as an inside look inside depression.
But it shouldn't be so depressing, it does leave an optimistic ending. And on page 4 (in my edition) is does say she went on to have a baby.
thistexaspoet 2 years ago
In another vid I viewed someone commented that Sylvia's son recently killed himself. Sorry.
damuse11 2 years ago
damuse11,
yes, her son did kill himself. It happened this year, but in March. So tragic that he was unable to heal from his mother's suicide.
kathaiti 2 years ago
We don't know the reason why Sylvia Plath's son decided to kill himself but I imagine his mother's death and the fact that she died by her own hand affected his life.
In my comment above I wanted to question thistexaspoet's conclusion that the film had an optimistic ending...
damuse11 2 years ago 5
@damuse11 My guess is her mental illness was genetic, and he got the unlucky end of the stick.
xLulishax 1 year ago
we're doing plath and hughes in english at school.
londonscum1 3 years ago 3
i love this film for some reason....even though its not really accurate...
thanks!
faithlessjuliet 3 years ago 9
i really wanted to see this movie thanks for putting it up its awesome
mesang 3 years ago 5