Thank God for Prejudice

Screen grab of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy (Universal Pictures, 2005).

Sweet high holy heavens, could there be a love story/novel any more perfect than Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice? I think not.

I have not actually finished the actual novel - for a young lady like myself found the 19th century words and sentence and paragraph constructions of Miss Jane - the whole of the novel's contents - to have a somewhat daunting nature; rather difficult to understand sometimes. Well, you get me, don't you? But that was then. I reckon the last time I tried to read past the first 2 or 3 chapters I was only probably 15 or 16. I have not given up and my faith remains, I will finish the novel - and possibly this month, at that!

But the movie is magical fantastic SUBLIME. I am talking about the 2005 one directed by Joe Wright starring period-piece princess Keira Knightley and the uber dashing Matthew Macfadyen, for which I am forever grateful. Really, thank you God and Universe for such perfection. Jane Austen herself would have been proud if she saw the movie!  

It's one of my favorite movies of all time. It's quite difficult for me to talk about it because I really can not say any more than it is brilliant and you have to watch it to see and feel it for yourself, but in reality I could go on and on about it. I will talk you down into watching it, I tell you. (And later to read it too, when I've done so myself.)

If you are anything like me at all - a big sucker for romantic novels and movies, and classic stories - then I promise this movie will be one of the best 90 minutes of your life.

I only wish there had been another novel, and therefore another movie - a sequel - about the life of Mr. Darcy and Lizzy after they'd married.

The modern world needs more Mr. Darcy's and Lizzy Bennet's. Really.