'Wuthering Weights' - 6.2./10

Jadd J.A.D.D. Jadd

I had nothing better to do than go see a Valentine's Day movie with every other couple in the theatre and be the only single person in there. I've never read 'Wuthering Heights' or seen the many adaptations of it. I can comfortably say without a doubt that Cathy and Heathcliff are up there with the worst couples in cinema and TV. Here are some examples: Bella and Edward from Twilight, Cartman and Heidi from South Park, Christian and Satine from Moulin Rouge, Christian and Grey and Anastasia from the Fifty Shades trilogy! and Romeo and Juliet. Those are the worst and most toxic couples put there, oh, the lengths these two went just to keep and observe in each other's lives.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are absolutely sublime and magnetic together and separately. Margot Robbie has always been a tremendous and experimental actress and producer. I haven’t seen her play such a cruel, manipulative, selfish, monstrous, and cold character. She's legitimately intimidating and terrifying. Jacob Elordi is such a massively gifted actor. He is so charming and seductive, but when his twisted nature is revealed. It's shocking, and Jacob Elordi sells it by reeling you in so that it becomes unnerving.

Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Owen Cooper and Charlotte Mellington are fantastic and are key players in their supporting roles. Emerald Fennell has a keen eye for visual storytelling, uses lighting and shadows for her characters to reflect their turnoil they are in. Lighting, shadowing, and really taking advantage of it. The Cinematography by Linus Sandgren is just as atmospheric and yet haunting, as well as the ending by Victoria Boydell, who effortlessly ties and flows scenes smoothly.

The orchestral score by Anthony Willis is more operatic and romantic than the actual movie. Charli XCX's songs are infectious and lively. Serparetly the songs are great, but in the actual movie, it feels like a music video mixing a period piece and modern music together doesn't go together.

Emerald Fennell is a gifted filmmaker, but from what I've learned about the book, it comes off like she didn't deliberately or undeliberately want to include the important timeline and character growth that could've fleshed out and made motivations clearer. The marketing for this movie is so off. It is a love story, but for the most selfish, cruel, toxic, twisted, and narcissistic love story for the worst of couples. And it's not just them; everyone has a deceptive agenda. I know not everything is black and white, or grey or have clear cut good guys and bad guys, because that's life, and I understand. But if you are presenting a love story, why am I supposed to want these characters to fall in love, believe in it and root for them, then this movie has failed at that. The worst thing a movie can be is boring. And this movie wasn't boring, but it was an unpleasant experience. Clearly, it has its fans because some people around me were crying and getting into it, and I was in a packed theatre, the only single person there with couples on Valentine's Day. Obvisouly if you love it or got into it, then I'm glad, good for you. There was you were attached to it. But there wasn't anything like that for me in this movie.