www.indiewire.com: Whatever else you might think of it, there’s no denying writer and director Emerald Fennell designed her adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” to be gleefully jarring. Maybe no moment exemplifies this better than the near jumpscare of Cathy (Margot Robbie) returning to her not-so-homey childhood abode to find her father, Mr. Earnshaw (Martin Clunes), dead on the ground in basically Peter Griffin pose, surrounded by piles of gin bottles rising to the rafters.
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This was such a crazy movie to watch, I would agree that “jarring” is the perfect description. When I watched Saltburn for the first time, I really thought it all was crazy, though Wuthering Heights took it to another level for me. Especially having created this film based off of the book, there is a clear line between the bare bones of this story and the directorial and design decisions that made this film so uncomfortable and direct. I appreciate the acknowledgement that this was not intended to represent a specific time period, since this is something that caught me off guard again and again throughout the film. What I would love though, is a decent explanation of why it was so incredibly sexualized. I suppose that adds to the jarring nature of the movie, but I feel like I almost saw some really beautiful themes emerge and everything I had hoped for was sexualized to a ridiculous extent, and in quite an uncomfortable way. Jarring for sure.
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