Persuasion (15 Jul 2022)

 

Released On: Netflix

Genre: Romance Drama Comedy

Language: English

Duration: 109 minutes

Director: Carrie Cracknell

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Henry Golding, Mia McKenna-Bruce

If you like the Victorian era elegance and attires, the hints of romance during long walks into a forest or by a beach, the articulate English tea and dinner tables with some soulful quotes and poetries thrown in between, sans any nudity, brutality, conmanship or even overwhelming drama, then do watch this feel-good movie in the safe and cosy confines of your home.

It is based on the novel 'Persuasion' by Jane Austen where Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson), the protagonist constantly breaks the fourth wall by interacting with the audience.

The plot centres around a titular British family who believes in titular associations (read marriages).

Anne breaks off with Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), her true love, due to her family's strong stance of marrying into similar titular families, only to meet him again after a gap of 7 years when he is a rich and distinguished sailor (read Captain) with high prospects of becoming an Admiral and her father has mounted debts due to his blind spendings !!

For sure, both Anne and Frederick are oblivious to titles and riches and nurse a pining heart for each other.

But will they be able to bury their past and re-unite? Will her family be practical enough to oblige their re-union?

As if the aforesaid dilemmas were not enough, their meet coincides with the emergence of a new suitor in each of their lives!

Will their hearts flutter for fresh love which is absolutely free from the complexities of past baggage?

Watch the movie to know it all.

My friends and myself watched this film on a lazy afternoon with a pot of Jasmine tea, cheese cream topped red velvet cupcakes and a couple of finger sandwiches and absolutely loved the total experience, specially Dakota Johnson's presence and performance.

'When in Rome, Do as the Romans do', What say?