Rebecca, A Netflix movie, 2020

The movie was inspired in the novel Rebecca, of Daphne Du Maurier, 1938, a Bestseller. 


“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.” ― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. All of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca


Everything starts when she goes with the unpleasant Mrs. Van Hoppers to a vacation as her lady company, in Monte Carlo, there she met the most finest man in England, Mr. De Winter, the owner of Manderley, his wife Rebecca died in a boat accident a year before, after a hungover Mrs. Hoppers get ill and she encounters Maxim at the Restaurant. After that they start to see each other and spend a good time together. He quickly decided to marry her and she leaves Mrs. Hoppers to move with him to his property in aManderley. 

There she is challenged by his staff, mainly by Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, she gradually gets used to the place and has nightmares at night. She feels excluded and always the housekeeper makes comparations with Rebecca, trying to impose her status quo. Maxim also is getting to know her and act strangely at night, he is a sleepwalker. 

As the story unfolds, the new woman decides to please him by holding a ball, but she dresses as the woman on the board, Maxim asks her to take off her dress in front of everyone, embarrassing her publicly. All Mrs. Danvers' idea. She was beautiful, but anyway, she didn't please him. Everybody enjoyed the Ball less the new wife. After the fiasco, Mrs. Danvers tortures her and suggest that she may suicide, but she run to the fields. There she sees the people rescuing a boat, was Rebecca's boat. They took the body to the Autopsy. 

Maxim confess to his wife that he killed her with a shot in her heart because she was pregnant of another man called Favell. 

Later during the autopsy, they discover that Rebecca was apparently pregnant and they made an investigation to check if was accident or murdering, Maxim goes to trial and they discover that was Maxim the responsible for her death. He goes to jail but his wife manage to take him off. 

Mrs. Danvers is fired by the wife after the judgment, but before leaves, she putted fire in the entire mansion, and then she goes to the field to jump to suicide, she had nowhere to go, she lived in that mansion big part of her life. The wife came back from the jail with Maxim and sees it and run after her trying to stop her, but she jumps in the lake anyway. 

Finally, after this tragedy, they decided to restart their marriage travelling the world starting with the first city Cairo. 

The Cast: Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor and British actress Lily James

Rating: 10 stars. 

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Sense and Sensibility, 1995

Special Jane Austen. 

This Movie was based on the Book Sense and Sensibility, a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811.



The history is about the family Dashwood. 
Mr. Harry Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret the youngest. 
Elinor is the counsellor of her mother as the eldest daughter, she is really nice and quiet person, while Marianne is a little direct person and very talented, she is waiting to get married soon and Margaret is yet enjoying her childhood, only playing and observing. 

Mr. Dashwood died lefting them without property, the problem is by law their property must to be left to his eldest son John. So, they are now homeless. 
John and Fanny his wife immediately take possess of the house in Norland, and the women are now searching where to live. They will receive a pension a year, but is not enough, so the father asked John before die to help them financially. 

Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and her mother

Sense and Sensibility, 1995
Here Fanny and John came to talk about the process moving.

They received help of Mrs. Dashwood cousin, Sr. John Middleton who offers a nice house in the Barton Cottage, not so nice like theirs but, it's in the beautiful fields of Devonshire, UK.  

They immediately get acquaintance with Mrs. Jennings who invited them to her house and Colonel Brandon, who likes Marianne instantly when she plays the piano in a moment of diversion. 

Marianne fell in love not with the Colonel, but with the charming John Willoughby and they had a fast affair. She wanted to marry him because he showed interest after met her at the field where she fell when in a walk with Margaret.

John one day moved to London lefting no explanation to Marianne. She begins to send letters requesting explanation, she had plans to marry him.

Mrs. Jennings then invited the girls to a walk in London and there they go to a ball, to get new acquaintances and maybe find John there. She sees John with his future wife. He chose her instead Marianne. She was rich and also beautiful. Marianne cries a lot and Elinor and Mrs. Jennings give her consolation. Her suffering was so profound like in the Shakespearian style, almost to death. 

She goes to the field again and this time is the Colonel who takes her in his arms in despair. She fell ill and the doctor was called. Her mother came from Devonshire when she was already recovering.

Colonel shows his affections and courts Marianne again who decides to accept and marry him.

In the same time Edward came to Elinor to tell that he decided not to marry Miss Lucy, that she married his cousin instead, they danced in the ball previously, opening the path to Elinor. and he declares himself to her. Elinor cries of happiness and they go together to Marianne's marriage. They had a nice celebration and that's how the movie ends. 
I liked very much, i learned a little how they communicate there.

Rating: 10 stars. 

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