Pride & Prejudice
It was a Pride & Prejudice festival here last night. My Anna wanted to rent the five hour version with Colin Firth, so we did. We started watching at 8:45... you do the math! It was a late night. I saw the new Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightly (2005) and it was good. Good, not great. The five-hour version with Colin is much, much better. Maybe, just maybe the full five hours is needed to translate the complexity of this book into film. Anyway, you know it's a good movie when it captivates everybody in the family, including my 7- and 9-year old sons, my pre-teen and teenage daughters and my husband as well.
Part of the reason I was eager to rent the movie last night was because my teenager wanted to see it. My Mommy Mind said, "a five hour movie means that Anna will be staying home tonight." And why was this so attractive? Anna has a certain friend. I do not like this friend. I do not like her at all. I'm sorry to say, but this friend has problems, problems which are way too far gone for anyone but a professional to address. This friend lied to her mother and said she was spending the night with Anna so that she could sneak off and stay out all night. This friend meets men on the internet, men in their 20s, and married men. This friend has failed her freshman year at my daughter's school and will be repeating it at another school. Yesterday Anna told me that this friend started a fire in her own house to create a diversion so she could sneak out. This friend appeared to be "tripping" on drugs that same night. This friend smokes pot. This friend of my daughter's has a relationship with a boy that she calls, "friends with benefits" and I have every reason to believe she is using that term in the most adult sense.
About a week ago, I told my daughter that this friend "is a loser." Although I don't believe I can dictate my daugher's friends, I said I was not happy to have her hanging around with this person. It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to know that this "friend" is bad news. I was relieved when my daughter said she will be avoiding this "friend" from now on. I hope she does.
Part of the reason I was eager to rent the movie last night was because my teenager wanted to see it. My Mommy Mind said, "a five hour movie means that Anna will be staying home tonight." And why was this so attractive? Anna has a certain friend. I do not like this friend. I do not like her at all. I'm sorry to say, but this friend has problems, problems which are way too far gone for anyone but a professional to address. This friend lied to her mother and said she was spending the night with Anna so that she could sneak off and stay out all night. This friend meets men on the internet, men in their 20s, and married men. This friend has failed her freshman year at my daughter's school and will be repeating it at another school. Yesterday Anna told me that this friend started a fire in her own house to create a diversion so she could sneak out. This friend appeared to be "tripping" on drugs that same night. This friend smokes pot. This friend of my daughter's has a relationship with a boy that she calls, "friends with benefits" and I have every reason to believe she is using that term in the most adult sense.
About a week ago, I told my daughter that this friend "is a loser." Although I don't believe I can dictate my daugher's friends, I said I was not happy to have her hanging around with this person. It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to know that this "friend" is bad news. I was relieved when my daughter said she will be avoiding this "friend" from now on. I hope she does.
posted by Juanita at
6:53 AM
1 Comments:
I want to see it now. The Kiera Knightley versin had me thinking that Elizabeth fell for Mr. Darcy b/c he was rich. She came out of it looking like a gold digger. Not very romantic, in my humble opinion.
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