I didn’t like it from the start, honestly, because we know Mrs Bennet was eager at the news that a Mr Bingley had taken a house in town and was wealthy, but that all the girls started giggling was annoying. Lydia and Kitty, ok, but all of them?
At the ball, then, the sea of people parted and the music stopped when the party of three arrived - Bingley, his sister, and Darcy. As if they were royalty. And they walked on as if they were too.
Three sisters are immediately introduced, and Bingley dances with Jane. Hidden, Lizzie hears Darcy say that she’s not handsome enough to tempt him. Good, at this point, since so far he looked like he had a stick up… well, he didn’t look serious and uptight, he looked disgusted to be there.
Lydia and Kitty of course are excited with the news that the regiment will stop there for a while.
Jane is invited by the Bingley sister, and her mom makes her go on horseback so that after the rain she’ll have to stay there. After a letter saying that she’s ill, Lizzie goes to visit her. There is the famous ‘walk around the room’, then the mom arrives with three other daughters.
Mr Collins pays them a visit, he’s the one that will inherit everything once Mr Bennet dies.
He asks for Jane, but her mother says she’ll soon be engaged and suggests Lizzie, and he agrees.
Lydia, with Kitty, Jane and Lizzie meet Mr Wickam who buys the young girl a ribbon and she keeps giggling. Lizzie talks to him and he says that he grew up with Darcy like a brother, but when Darcy’s father died and left something to Wickham, Darcy was so jealous of him that did not respect his father’s wishes and gave it to someone else. Jane can’t believe it, but Lizzie does.
At the ball thrown by Bingley, Lizzie looks for Wickam but instead finds Collins who wants to dance.After that she tries to avoid him. She has one dance with Darcy, but they butt heads regarding Wickam. Charlotte tells her that Jane should show her love more, because to those who don’t know her it looks like she’s not at all enchanted.
Collins proposes to Lizzie in the morning. Since Lady Catherine told him he should get a wife, he thought that since he’s to inherit everything, marrying one of the Bennet sisters would put things right for everyone. She refuses him and Lydia and Kitty laugh themselves off.
Meanwhile Jane receives a letter, Bingley leaves the house, basically leaving her for good, but Lizzie insists he loves her and wants her to go to London to some relatives, and sends her off.
Charlotte tells her she’s now engaged to Collins and Lizzie hastily judges her (even though Charlotte is right, unmarried at 27 with no money…)
Once Charlotte is married, Lizzie pays her a visit and they are invited by Lady Catherine with her daughter and Darcy is there too. Lady Catherine openly disapproves of Lizzie and forces her to play the piano. Next scene we know, he breaks into her room at Charlotte’s house but says nothing at all and runs away. She learns that it was Darcy who separated Bingley and Jane and she runs under the rain, only to meet Darcy himself, and what do you know, it’s the proposal scene, right there under the rain, when Darcy proposes in his famous ‘charming’ way.
She of course rejects him, strongly, and it’s her best scene in the whole movie, where her passion shows, and her aggression and accusation is for once justified.
He comes later to give her a letter (I say, it was improper apparently for Collins to go and introduce himself at the ball, but it is ok for him to enter Collins house unseen and uninvited and leave her a letter that late…)
He writes the true story, of how his father left Wickam a living, but not wanting to settle there he asked for money instead, and then lost it all gambling. He asked for more but Darcy refused, so he professed his love for Darcy’s sister, but left her when Darcy made clear he would not touch a penny of her inheritance, leaving her heartbroken at 15 years old only.
Jane is back from London, and Lizzie is back as well, and they learn that Lydia has been invited to go with a Colonel for a while. Lizzie tries to convince her father to not let her go, but he does to have some peace. Lizzie visits Pemberley with an unspecified couple (probably because we are supposed to know them? Having read the book and all? But shouldn’t they say it anyway, to make it clear in case someone hasn’t read it, or like me doesn’t remember? Some kind of relatives I think, aunt and uncle I think, the agreeable relatives.)
Instead of paintings there are statues. Lizzie wanders around and when she hears music she sees Darcy with his sister and runs away. He goes after her but they exchange very few words. Later he speaks with her aunt and invites them all to dine with him to meet Georgiana, his sister, who is rather adorable. Later she gets a letter from Jane and after reading it she’s in tears, and tells them that Lydia ran away with Wickam. I don’t like it how she says it all looking straight at him. I know that she thinks things like he will not want to have anything to do with her now that her family is disgraced, and stuff like that, but her face says otherwise, she looks accusing, as she almost always does.
Her uncle writes that they found Wickam and he agreed to marry her for a minimum sum a year, to which of course her father agrees, well knowing that much more must have been paid to him already to accept that.
The stupid mother, who was crying her eyes out a moment before, is suddenly all happy that Lydia will be married. (Here both women are right, the mother in saying that she’ll understand when she’ll have five daughters and Lizzie thinking that she doesn’t know what Wickam is like, because she hasn’t told anybody and really the woman has no idea).
Wickam and Lydia come back, and Lydia is the smug one she should be by book-rights. Lydia lets it slip that it was Darcy who found them and paid for the wedding. She’s like 15, isn’t she?
A man in the street tells Mrs Bennet that Bingley is returning, and he appears at their house with Darcy, for a rather awkward visit when they say nothing of consequence at all and go out, but to be fair nobody invited them to sit anywhere. Bingley comes back after a few minutes speaking with Darcy, and asks to speak to Jane alone, and he finally proposes to her, and she adorably accepts.
Lady Catherine barges into their house quite late, they are all in their nightgowns, and she insists she stays away from Darcy. She says he is engaged from birth to her daughter, and yet she asks Lizzie if she is engaged to him, and then asks her to promise she never will be, and of course she refuses and asks her to leave her house. She can’t sleep, now suffering for her lost chance with him; at dawn she walks out alone, and there he is, walking towards her (quite a long walk, we have to witness it all). The words we know, he says his feelings have not changed, then goes on to tell her how he loves her, and she kisses his hands, and next scene he’s talking to her father who then asks her what she wants, because he still thinks she hates him, but she says she loves him, she tells him what he’s done, and that they all misjudged him, and that the two of them are very similar, and he’s happy that she’s happy.
And that’s it, the last scene is the man laughing, we don’t see anything else.
Elizabeth- Keira Knightley
Mary- Talulah Riley
Jane- Rosamund Pike
Lydia- Jena Malone
Kitty- Carey Mulligan
Mr Bennet- Donald Sutherland
Mrs Bennet- Brenda Blethyn
Charalotte- Claudie Blakley
Bingley- Simon Woods
Caroline- Kelly Reilly
Darcy- Matthew MacFadyen
Wickam- Rupert Friend
Collins- Tom Hollander
Lady Catherine- Judi Dench
Mrs Gardiner- Penelope Wilton
Georgiana- Tamzin Merchant
ITA orgoglio e pregiudizio
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