Rebecca

Year of release : 2020

 

Run time : 2h3min

 

Genre : Romance / Mystery

 

Cast : Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas

 

 

The movie is based on the book of the same name,written by Daphne du Maurier.

 

After living a very fast blossoming and perfect romance,a newlywed ends up in her husband’s family estate surrounded by enemies. Her loving husband turns cold and is haunted by memories,or so we think,as he sleepwalks, and we’re told over and over again by the maid of how much he loved his ex wife who died.

Mrs. Danvers doesn’t miss a chance to tell her how amazing Rebecca was,and she keeps her room the way she left it before she died.

 

Rebecca feels like the absent leading character of the movie as everybody talks about her and her presence is felt everywhere,as nothing of hers was taken away. Everything has her initials,the tissues,the notebooks,the agendas..the plot is oversaturated with Rebecca’s absent presence. At one point I was sick of always hearing about her,about how beautiful she was,and how she spellbounded everyone,even the animals. And yet,she was an awful,disgusting human being.

 

I personally enjoyed the movie, although I feel the 1940 version was better, as in this one they changed the ending (among other things,like, how Rebecca died,in this one they stuck with the novel version), how Mrs. Danvers dies. I loved Rebecca's room, just like in the original movie, it was so beautiful and glamorous!

 

The acting was good. Lily James was good at playing the good, innocent young woman who pretty much lets everyone walk all over her until her man is in trouble and she steps up.

I feel like Michael Fassbender would have done a better job at playing the husband,as he’s the best at playing tortured characters,one reason being, he has an expressive face, and you can read the emotions on it.

Kristin Scott Thomas was the best ,playing the obsessed Miss Danvers. We don’t know if she was in love with her ( she says that awful woman was the only one she ever loved),or wanted to be her or like her,or just admired her, living through her ,but she was ridiculous in her obsession with this dead awful woman,as we come to find out.

 

There was nothing to like about Rebecca, Rebecca was filth. Rebecca was a manipulative woman who liked to play men. The fact that everyone was still fawning over her, although they knew how she was, was disgusting!

We find out the reason Maxim fell in love with our lead,and the new wife, was because she was Rebecca’s opposite,she was honest,innocent and true.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !