Talented but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath's early relationship with husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted's ambition and success. In the early years of their marriage Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted's infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted's extra-marital affairs are the result of Sylvia's own insecurities or whether Sylvia's deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only towards the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to truly explore the dark depths of her soul and write the searingly br... illiant poetry that earned her fame.
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Good if you like poetry.
Being a Plath fan, I had high expectations of this movie. Initially, I wondered about Gweneth Paltrow's compatibility with this role. During the opening period of this movie, I did not feel convinced enough of the characters on-screen chemistry; that someone as dry and apathetic as Plath's poetry would have her seem, would rush head over heals in love with a man who's name she had just learnt.
My pessimism put aside, I found myself quite pleasantly surprised with Paltrow's acting range. I found she really mastered this role and brought out Plath’s happy and loving side. I even had to remind myself that Gweneth Paltrow, was in fact, not Sylvia Plath, but a very con...
Sylvia
Maybe not everyone cups of tea as it's a dark movie on Sylvia Plath's encroaching mental illness, and its influence on her work.
The movie gives a sense of the poet state of mind during her life, until she commits suicide.
It's an attempt to explain the macabre, hallucinatory and emotional power in her poems imagery.
This was not an easy subject to cover and I think it was done rather well.
Sylvia
Who was Sylvia Plath? According to this patchy, dislocated biopic, the American poet was a suicidal, husband-obsessed woman whose creative flame was prematurely extinguished when she took her own life in 1963. Relegating the people and events of the period to the background, the film centres on the love affair between Plath and her husband, future poet laureate Ted Hughes. What draws us in is the central performance of Gwyneth Paltrow — as steely as it is vulnerable — while Daniel Craig's turn as Hughes is also superbly conveyed. However, John Brownlow's script tends to sanctify Plath's work and so the film becomes just another beautiful-person-in-anguish lif...
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Started off nicely, I had heard her name a few times and decided to wikepidia Sylvia Plath and thought she sounded very intruiging. Her husband was a pig..and the other woman didn't care at all that he was a married man, as was she married to someone else. It made me sick what he did, and it added to Sylvia's instability, poor woman. Gweneth Paltrow was great. It moves a bit slowly but it is very interesting. Funny how everything ended up..
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The other woman Assia, terminated the first pregnancy and then had a daughter later and murdered her and then took her own life moments after
Ted Hughes died of cancer, and with his death exposed the true secrets of his indfidelities
Nicolas Plath killed himself just recently, being in his 40s, clinically depressed and lonely..it's so terrible.
