All agony, no hope: A review of Persuasion (2022)
Leave it to the new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion to bring me out of my school/pregnancy/newborn baby-imposed hiatus. I'm embarrassed to admit that out of all of the Austen adaptations in the world, my newborn daughter's first exposure to the brilliance that is Jane Austen came in the form of the newest version of Persuasion. I have plenty of time to make up for this, however. I know this film is getting a lot of backlash right now. I'm not here to burn it to the ground, nor am I an Austen scholar. Frankly, I'm just proud of this post's title because it parodies a famous line from the novel. That said, I think it's worth briefly discussing the modern 'take' on this classic novel and why it doesn't work for certain (dare I say the majority?) of viewers. There's a lot of talk of gatekeeping when it come to adapting classic works of literature-- let me be clear now, I LOVE movie adaptations of books and I'm not trying to gatek
