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.
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| 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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Michelle Naumov
