The novel was not one i got past the first 24 pages of, 24 years ago, it is good to have this reminder to pursue someone's if but the screen writer and director's interpretation of it, than assume i know anything about Oscar Wilde, that is correct (politically) now. If nothing else the film deserves credit where OW's publisher could give none, or perhaps his critics, and the Govt of the day.
I enjoyed the many twists of perception that film photography can add to the value of one's own interpretation, for what is one man's beauty may be seen as another's beast. How interesting that previous commentators here refer to Sybil's suicide, presumably this is a much clarified part of the book.
I however saw this as a murder perpetrated by Henry, whom we saw in the theatre smoking in the balcony in the last seen of this actress. We do not nor are we told in the film it was suicide but are led to believe that Dorian did it by Sybil's brother. When in fact, Henry may have prevented Dorian falling from grace in the society he kept, in the endeavour to steer him towards finding a much finer bride, by taking the girl's life. And there in the last scenes are we reminded of the waywardness of drugs, and debauchery which could in an idealists world still permit marrying a much younger bride, that our own aged appearance seems a match for. Is there room for incest to add to the ideas of sin that OW is famed for?
I enjoyed the many twists of perception that film photography can add to the value of one's own interpretation, for what is one man's beauty may be seen as another's beast. How interesting that previous commentators here refer to Sybil's suicide, presumably this is a much clarified part of the book.
I however saw this as a murder perpetrated by Henry, whom we saw in the theatre smoking in the balcony in the last seen of this actress. We do not nor are we told in the film it was suicide but are led to believe that Dorian did it by Sybil's brother. When in fact, Henry may have prevented Dorian falling from grace in the society he kept, in the endeavour to steer him towards finding a much finer bride, by taking the girl's life. And there in the last scenes are we reminded of the waywardness of drugs, and debauchery which could in an idealists world still permit marrying a much younger bride, that our own aged appearance seems a match for. Is there room for incest to add to the ideas of sin that OW is famed for?
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