As someone who hadn’t read the book before seeing the movie, my thoughts on the film will be significantly different from those of readers who have. The decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the lead characters was a visually appealing choice, and I think it’s a factor why as many people went to see the movie as they did.
However, when watching a movie adaptation of a book, it’s bound to not be as good as the book because they don’t have the time to cover every detail. However, they usually tend to include the most shocking scenes,- which is what made Wuthering Heights the “have to see film” of Valentine’s Day.
Due to its sensual scenes, however, they’re not as crazy as the book makes them out to be. Overall, the movie reflects the book in its main plot points, especially with the tragic ending. This movie is definitely for the yearners.
Throughout the entire movie, the main characters, Heathcliff and Cathrine, are into each other from the very beginning when Cathrine’s father, Mr. Earnshaw, took Heathcliff in as a little boy, to save him from being an orphan. The infatuation starts then and continues throughout the entire movie until the end, when it’s too late.
Even in Cathrine’s marriage to Edgar Linton, all she could think about was Heathcliff. In the movie, the root cause of all these problems of the two being “so close yet so far” from being together is the maid Nelly. Who intentionally makes it so Heathcliff doesn’t hear the full thing that Cathrine was saying to her.
All so Nelly can live a more comfortable life at Edgar Linton’s house because he’s filthy rich, while Cathrine wishes things were different and that she never married him. However, the biggest betrayal in the movie is after Cathrine tells Heathcliff he can’t kill Mr. Linton so they can be together, it is when he decides to get with her step-daughter out of spite because he knows she’s obsessed with him.
All in all, it’s a movie about constant revenge on one another to make the other one hurt because they can’t be together. But in the end, the person who gets the most screwed over is Edgar Linton because all he wants is a wife to have a child with who also loves him.
He almost got at least one of those things, but because Cathrine’s health declines after the marriage between the step-daughter and Heathcliff, she ultimately loses the baby. However, Nelly doesn’t believe Cathrine about losing the baby, so she gets a nasty infection that turns septic, and then finally Nelly believes her.
The biggest difference between this movie and the book is that the director of the film produced the film, whereas she remembered it when she read the book when she was 14. Which explains the number of inconsistencies between the book and the movie. Which is why fans of the book are not excited to see the movie adaptation.
In the end, Catherine dies, never knowing how Heathcliff truly felt. My main inquiry is, where does Healthcliff get all that money from, and where is more of the soundtrack that was made for the movie? I went solely because I knew Charli xcx had her hands in the music side of things; however, what was played didn’t disappoint.
