First of all: I don't know if I already mentioned to you my biggest celebrity crush so far in my life, Tom Hiddleston. I won't really talk now about how amazing, awesome, hot, cute, intelligent and talented he is. Not because that's really all I have to say (trust me, there's more, lots more), it's just that I think you came here for a critical review. Although I'm still training myself in this sort of thing I've came up with and that my so called "reviews" are not really a review (okay, I do discuss about the plot and its problems and how is it all connected to the world we live in and deep stuff like that) but more like a fangirl's praise to her idol or something childish like that. I cannot deny the fact of being a fangirl and a part of multiple fandoms (it just happened, I swear! It's like that sort of thing that grows into you, something that comes to you when you reach certain age, like something you cannot avoid - unless you don't have a Tumblr which is pretty difficult these days) and I won't even try to. Simply because I am proud of being a devoted Hiddlestoner! Yeah, okay enough of my fangirling here. Let's get to the point, shall we?
Now, I really need the feel to express how great his and Rachel's performance were. There was so much passion put into it. You don't get a lot of that this days. Anyway, as you probs know, The Deep Blue Sea is actually a stage play, written by Terence Rattigan in 1952 (classy!). I also need you to see Tom's perception of the whole plot, which you can see here ---> Tom Hiddleston's The Deep Blue See Interview. This, I think, is a solid evidence of how brilliant he is, how educated and intelligent he is. I really wish I was English-born so I'd understand a few words I couldn't recognize, but I'm really working on it. His accent is like a song to me.
Anyway (you see, this was the perfect example how a fangirl can be immediately distracted just by the sound of her idol's voice. God dammit), I think the movie was incredible. (Psst, for some romantic atmosphere while I'm talking about the movie, you can listen to this song - Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me which is the song they danced to in this picture above. It's so romantic and sweet, just imagine dancing with him like that!). The way Tom and Rachel presented two lovers that just weren't destined and met at an inappropriate time was more than perfect. I enjoyed every second of the movie. Although I must confess, there was something holding me back before watching it. I mentioned before that The Deep Blue Sea is actually meant for the stage. And I sorta kinda have a small, tiny bias of plays. Not that I wouldn't trust Tom and Rachel to portray their roles as perfect as they did, it's just I don't sometimes get plays and I get so confused and frustrated. Like, I have this feeling of guilt that is eating me inside me, sorta reminding me that I should've understood what it was all about. Although I know art isn't supposed to be understood. It's supposed to make you feel something and I can, without anything holding me back this time, say, that I really enjoyed this movie. The plot was genius, really complicated, but realistic. That is hard to achieve and once you do, you have to find someone as brilliant as you to actually make it happen.
Something did switched inside me, some kind of enlightenment that the world isn't perfect. Finally I found a movie I won't have to say that belongs to that group of movies that show only perfect people with ordinary problems in perfect circumstances. Because that's not life, we all know it. Maybe some young girls might enjoy those kind of superficial movies about hot boys and stuff like that. But this here is the real deal. I can't stop thinking about how much emotion did Tom put into this masterpiece. How brilliant he acted at their last farewell, I actually cried when his eyes were a bit teary. He showed what a great, talented actor he is and how he can make any movie such brilliance. But of course, I mustn't forget about the other cast as well. Rachel Weisz is one of my favorite actresses as well, although I don't follow her work that much. Anyway, she had a really hard job as well. They both put so much energy in this, so much love and affection that this came out. Thank god for such genius actors.
I know you might think I think of Tom very highly. It's just that it's true. Have you seen his performance of Coriolanus? It was amazing and mind-blowing. Nevertheless, I still claim this movie as one of my favorites with him in it. It was soft, sad, harsh and cruel at the same time. It just represented reality as it is, no embellishments whatsoever. It was just a long fragment of a woman's life and how she didn't find any sense in it anymore, until she laid her eyes on him and he his on her. I knew it was going to be magical and it was for pretty long time. But this movie showed very directly and straightforwardly and didn't beat around the bush, that some relationships, no matter how sincere and romantic they may seem, just don't work out. It shows that people aren't perfect. I really did like Freddie and Hester together, although some sort of tension was always present. Maybe because of the husband that didn't want to get her a divorce and so she was trapped in this affair as so in her marriage. I don't really know why they ended up together (Hester and her husband), but, like Tom said in that interview, when two people are committed to stay together, they should stay together. But the sparkle that flew between Hester and Freddie couldn't be ignored and I think I wouldn't either. It was unfair to her that somehow she was banned to enjoy life and experience happiness, although her reckless actions did have a huge effect on her husband and were not fair to him. But how far do the limits of a person's happiness reach? How selfish is a person allowed to be to be happy as well? Was it really all her fault? It was hers and her husband's alike. He didn't give or show any emotion and affection towards her which can hurt. You feel abandoned and suddenly all guilt was on her for wanting a bit more life out of him. I don't blame her. However, I replayed that scene with drunk Freddie and Hester like a million times to really get the story. How I comprehended was that the problem with their relationship was that Hester and Freddie both were too damaged to go that far. And her husband knew that. Their relationship was strictly to satisfy some things they both couldn't get from the world. They were a replacement for each other. Although I think Freddie didn't want to get that attached either. He did love her, I know he did. He must have. But Hester was constantly in a worry that he'll leave her and that worry actually got him to leave. It was too much for him and was kinda blaming the war for it, although he was mad because he let her in so far. This shouldn't have happened in his eyes. She shouldn't have been so emotional with him, he let her control him. In the end he had to leave, because the pressure was too high. The risk was too big. And so Hester, once again, was left alone.
However, I found some flaws in their relationship as well. I know that she was sexually awoken when she met Freddie, the reckless, handsome RAF pilot. She finally lived the life she wanted, as any young woman would. But there was something bittersweet in their relationship, I could sense it. She still had feelings for her husband, even if only pity. After the things she got rough with Freddie, Hester realized that he can never give her the love and stability like her husband did. I think she missed that in Freddie and Freddie, well, the adventurer he was, I had a feeling, never wanted to really settle down. I understood him and took him as a lost boy, who seeks some kind of rush, the adrenaline as he experienced it in war. I think that it was exciting for him to meet Hester; it was a forbidden love and he liked taking risks, playing with fire, being on the very edge of danger. He missed war and he wanted to replace it here, in the real life, where he was now stuck. I think he had no choice but to join the air forces, but he enjoyed it as well. And everybody knows, that this kind of thing, as war is, changes anybody. Truly, it leaves a mark on you, a stain that cannot be washed off. It becomes a part of you. I think it's better to die in war than having to live with it for the rest of your life, although it is nice to come out of it alive. It's always nice to see your loved once all over again. But Freddie was more damaged than I first thought. He was special and I think he feared that if he let life be as it is, it would get boring. It was a life he did not know anymore and as it is common in human nature, he feared the unknown. He just wanted fun I think. And when he saw Hester's suicide note, he realized that "shit just got real", to add some humor in it. He couldn't let himself live in that kind of state. It would perish him. He saw that things with Hester weren't the same. He craved fear and excitement, typical for war. And he saw only boring things like death and tears, so he ran away before getting hurt. He actually saved his heart.
It was, truly, a sad story. At first I was like 'Why the hell do they have to do this to my heart?' But, of course, when I put my girly feelings beside, I realized that's just the way life operates. Even though they met at a wrong time (or maybe not, haven't really set my mind on this one), I believe the love once shared was true and sincere. They cared for each other and he did cure her in a way, as she did him. He knew he didn't want to go that far, although it was only a matter of time when he'd get so "clingy" as well. He understood her as a broken-hearted woman, who was searching for lust in her life that was gone. She didn't want to finish her life off just that easily. And I know, I am certain, that the passion when their eyes first met in that pub was real. I could feel it. I thought, judging the plot, that the movie would left me broken and sobbing at the end. The sobbing part, however, was true (due to Tom's poor little crying face. I know, I'm pathetic), but it didn't left me in a state of regret and numbness as I expected. Rather than that, it left me thinking and I kind of accepted that people and things change. Feelings change. It's a part of life, even though I sure wish it wasn't.
Something inside me clicked, that maybe, after all, things aren't so complicated as they seem. I mean, I still think that their relationship wasn't complicated, because love isn't complicated. People complicate it due to their emotional stability and experience. And I found out that it was the problem in both of them for letting it happen like it did. But I think it was mostly for the best. They both learned something. I'm not that sure, though, if Hester would try to take her own life again, after what happened. I mean, the fireplace scene and when she broke down right after he shut the door, did have me in tears immediately. But the movie ended like it started - with normal occasions, people doing ordinary, daily things. Nothing's changed, except them. I'm sure he'd miss her like hell when he went to South America or Africa, I can't remember correctly. It was all just the same, same life, same loveless husband. But I'm sure, they'd remember the time spent together for the rest of their lives.
(C) Every artwork used is from Google and Tumblr
Now, I really need the feel to express how great his and Rachel's performance were. There was so much passion put into it. You don't get a lot of that this days. Anyway, as you probs know, The Deep Blue Sea is actually a stage play, written by Terence Rattigan in 1952 (classy!). I also need you to see Tom's perception of the whole plot, which you can see here ---> Tom Hiddleston's The Deep Blue See Interview. This, I think, is a solid evidence of how brilliant he is, how educated and intelligent he is. I really wish I was English-born so I'd understand a few words I couldn't recognize, but I'm really working on it. His accent is like a song to me.Anyway (you see, this was the perfect example how a fangirl can be immediately distracted just by the sound of her idol's voice. God dammit), I think the movie was incredible. (Psst, for some romantic atmosphere while I'm talking about the movie, you can listen to this song - Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me which is the song they danced to in this picture above. It's so romantic and sweet, just imagine dancing with him like that!). The way Tom and Rachel presented two lovers that just weren't destined and met at an inappropriate time was more than perfect. I enjoyed every second of the movie. Although I must confess, there was something holding me back before watching it. I mentioned before that The Deep Blue Sea is actually meant for the stage. And I sorta kinda have a small, tiny bias of plays. Not that I wouldn't trust Tom and Rachel to portray their roles as perfect as they did, it's just I don't sometimes get plays and I get so confused and frustrated. Like, I have this feeling of guilt that is eating me inside me, sorta reminding me that I should've understood what it was all about. Although I know art isn't supposed to be understood. It's supposed to make you feel something and I can, without anything holding me back this time, say, that I really enjoyed this movie. The plot was genius, really complicated, but realistic. That is hard to achieve and once you do, you have to find someone as brilliant as you to actually make it happen.
Something did switched inside me, some kind of enlightenment that the world isn't perfect. Finally I found a movie I won't have to say that belongs to that group of movies that show only perfect people with ordinary problems in perfect circumstances. Because that's not life, we all know it. Maybe some young girls might enjoy those kind of superficial movies about hot boys and stuff like that. But this here is the real deal. I can't stop thinking about how much emotion did Tom put into this masterpiece. How brilliant he acted at their last farewell, I actually cried when his eyes were a bit teary. He showed what a great, talented actor he is and how he can make any movie such brilliance. But of course, I mustn't forget about the other cast as well. Rachel Weisz is one of my favorite actresses as well, although I don't follow her work that much. Anyway, she had a really hard job as well. They both put so much energy in this, so much love and affection that this came out. Thank god for such genius actors.
I know you might think I think of Tom very highly. It's just that it's true. Have you seen his performance of Coriolanus? It was amazing and mind-blowing. Nevertheless, I still claim this movie as one of my favorites with him in it. It was soft, sad, harsh and cruel at the same time. It just represented reality as it is, no embellishments whatsoever. It was just a long fragment of a woman's life and how she didn't find any sense in it anymore, until she laid her eyes on him and he his on her. I knew it was going to be magical and it was for pretty long time. But this movie showed very directly and straightforwardly and didn't beat around the bush, that some relationships, no matter how sincere and romantic they may seem, just don't work out. It shows that people aren't perfect. I really did like Freddie and Hester together, although some sort of tension was always present. Maybe because of the husband that didn't want to get her a divorce and so she was trapped in this affair as so in her marriage. I don't really know why they ended up together (Hester and her husband), but, like Tom said in that interview, when two people are committed to stay together, they should stay together. But the sparkle that flew between Hester and Freddie couldn't be ignored and I think I wouldn't either. It was unfair to her that somehow she was banned to enjoy life and experience happiness, although her reckless actions did have a huge effect on her husband and were not fair to him. But how far do the limits of a person's happiness reach? How selfish is a person allowed to be to be happy as well? Was it really all her fault? It was hers and her husband's alike. He didn't give or show any emotion and affection towards her which can hurt. You feel abandoned and suddenly all guilt was on her for wanting a bit more life out of him. I don't blame her. However, I replayed that scene with drunk Freddie and Hester like a million times to really get the story. How I comprehended was that the problem with their relationship was that Hester and Freddie both were too damaged to go that far. And her husband knew that. Their relationship was strictly to satisfy some things they both couldn't get from the world. They were a replacement for each other. Although I think Freddie didn't want to get that attached either. He did love her, I know he did. He must have. But Hester was constantly in a worry that he'll leave her and that worry actually got him to leave. It was too much for him and was kinda blaming the war for it, although he was mad because he let her in so far. This shouldn't have happened in his eyes. She shouldn't have been so emotional with him, he let her control him. In the end he had to leave, because the pressure was too high. The risk was too big. And so Hester, once again, was left alone.However, I found some flaws in their relationship as well. I know that she was sexually awoken when she met Freddie, the reckless, handsome RAF pilot. She finally lived the life she wanted, as any young woman would. But there was something bittersweet in their relationship, I could sense it. She still had feelings for her husband, even if only pity. After the things she got rough with Freddie, Hester realized that he can never give her the love and stability like her husband did. I think she missed that in Freddie and Freddie, well, the adventurer he was, I had a feeling, never wanted to really settle down. I understood him and took him as a lost boy, who seeks some kind of rush, the adrenaline as he experienced it in war. I think that it was exciting for him to meet Hester; it was a forbidden love and he liked taking risks, playing with fire, being on the very edge of danger. He missed war and he wanted to replace it here, in the real life, where he was now stuck. I think he had no choice but to join the air forces, but he enjoyed it as well. And everybody knows, that this kind of thing, as war is, changes anybody. Truly, it leaves a mark on you, a stain that cannot be washed off. It becomes a part of you. I think it's better to die in war than having to live with it for the rest of your life, although it is nice to come out of it alive. It's always nice to see your loved once all over again. But Freddie was more damaged than I first thought. He was special and I think he feared that if he let life be as it is, it would get boring. It was a life he did not know anymore and as it is common in human nature, he feared the unknown. He just wanted fun I think. And when he saw Hester's suicide note, he realized that "shit just got real", to add some humor in it. He couldn't let himself live in that kind of state. It would perish him. He saw that things with Hester weren't the same. He craved fear and excitement, typical for war. And he saw only boring things like death and tears, so he ran away before getting hurt. He actually saved his heart.
It was, truly, a sad story. At first I was like 'Why the hell do they have to do this to my heart?' But, of course, when I put my girly feelings beside, I realized that's just the way life operates. Even though they met at a wrong time (or maybe not, haven't really set my mind on this one), I believe the love once shared was true and sincere. They cared for each other and he did cure her in a way, as she did him. He knew he didn't want to go that far, although it was only a matter of time when he'd get so "clingy" as well. He understood her as a broken-hearted woman, who was searching for lust in her life that was gone. She didn't want to finish her life off just that easily. And I know, I am certain, that the passion when their eyes first met in that pub was real. I could feel it. I thought, judging the plot, that the movie would left me broken and sobbing at the end. The sobbing part, however, was true (due to Tom's poor little crying face. I know, I'm pathetic), but it didn't left me in a state of regret and numbness as I expected. Rather than that, it left me thinking and I kind of accepted that people and things change. Feelings change. It's a part of life, even though I sure wish it wasn't.
Something inside me clicked, that maybe, after all, things aren't so complicated as they seem. I mean, I still think that their relationship wasn't complicated, because love isn't complicated. People complicate it due to their emotional stability and experience. And I found out that it was the problem in both of them for letting it happen like it did. But I think it was mostly for the best. They both learned something. I'm not that sure, though, if Hester would try to take her own life again, after what happened. I mean, the fireplace scene and when she broke down right after he shut the door, did have me in tears immediately. But the movie ended like it started - with normal occasions, people doing ordinary, daily things. Nothing's changed, except them. I'm sure he'd miss her like hell when he went to South America or Africa, I can't remember correctly. It was all just the same, same life, same loveless husband. But I'm sure, they'd remember the time spent together for the rest of their lives.
(C) Every artwork used is from Google and Tumblr
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