Haven't written anything about a year now. Totally forgot my blog. Stupid, eh?Anyway I totally like this movie : The Edge of Love. Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller are the gal's and Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys are the guys. It's so stunning and romantic and I love, love, love Keira's silly little welsh accent. in the beginning it's all so glamorous and as it evolves things get sticky and dirty and so on.
It's written by Keira's mother Sharman Macdonald who insisted Keira played Catlin (who is actually played by Sienna), but Keira took one look at it and realized she would much better play Vera.
The movie talks about Dylan Thomas. The characters are actually real, but the story is fiction with little pieces of truth kneaded into it.
Vera Phillips is a singer who sings in the Tube because of the war. it's 1940 and the war is full on. Matthew Rhys (who plays Dylan) is doing these silly little movie pieces and he thinks it's bollocks, so in a rush of bravery, he decides not to take part in that shit and concentrates only on his poems. He didn't go to the war as Vera's fancier did.
Vera and Dylan were childhood lovers in Wales, where they grew up. They meet again in a pub and talk a lot. Vera still loves Dylan and maybe Dylan still loves her.
Then Catlin (Sienna) comes to London and Keira is forced to meet Dylan's wife (who she didn't even know about).
Eventually they became friends and have wonderful memories together.
i'm not going to give it all up. You have to see the movie yourself.
Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) & William Killick (Cillian Murphy)
Catlin (Sienna Miller) & Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys)
2 comments:
So the war, not to mention having a job that makes you some money (so you don't have to leech food, booze, and lodging off your "foolish" friends like a human sponge), is "all bollocks"? Here I was thinking that in "The Edge of Love" Dylan Thomas comes off as the most despicable of cads. (Oh, and let me nick a bit of tail off your wife, too, while you're off fighting this silly war; that's a good chap, Killick.) The idea that he could get away with such behavior because he was an artist was completely unbelievable; Sharman Macdonald's script was in no way up to the task. I spent the whole film wanting to smack Matthew Rhys upside the head. Nice acting, though, from Keira Knightley, especially at the end, when she comes into a bit of maturity; Sienna Miller, save for her accent (I do a better Irish, and I'm a Czech-Pole from the American Midwest), is astonishing. And wonderful, nuanced work from the lovely Cillian Murphy. A mixed bag, really: I just couldn't sympathize with the Thomas character at all-- and couldn't understand, for the life of me, why the girls found him so compelling.
I didn't say, I liked Dylan, I just said "in an act of bravery". I personally thought Dylan was childish in this movie. He wanted all and now. I also didn't understand Sienna's accent and found out she was supposed to be Irish in an interview later on. I also didn't like the part where Keira lifted up her wail with such drama. She did envolve with the movie. I also said that DYLAN thought the war was bollocks. So stop accusing me of things that I didn't say. Thanks. :)
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