Monday, October 04, 2004 -- 8:22 PM
As per my brother's reccomendation, I rented Sylvia last weekend, and I gotta say, it is one fine piece of movie. The acting, by all of the cast, but especially by Gwenyth Paltrow, is quite moving. From what I understand it is an uncannily accurate portrayal of the life of poet Sylvia Plath, including her suicide at the age of thirty. Apparently the only part that portrayed a false aspect of Sylvia Plath's character was the cause of her suicide. Sylvia Plath's husband, the renound poet Ted Hughes, left her after the birth of their second child, and hooked up with some fresh blood. The movie portrays his later rejection of her attempts to reunite as the cause of her suicide. I just don't know why she actually did commit suicide. Check out her poetry anyways, some of it is quite good.
