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There
are many different reasons why we as a class could not connect with
the characters portrayed in Wuthering Heights. Differences in social
morality, life-long goals, and instinctual beliefs are just some
examples of these reasons.
However, I believe the reason why we laughed throughout the film's most crucial
moments is because of what we know today.
We
know that we are not that naive anymore. We know at one time we may
have been that passionate. We laugh when this emotion in its most
jubilant form is presented in the most frank nature. Who would exercise
such drama?
We
laugh at how untrue to our lives this movie seems to us.
Nelson
Correia
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For me is obvious
that, in directing Wuthering Heights, Wyler was trying to
show
the
harshness
of
real life, the difficulty to find our truly feelings and forget the ego, selfishness,
envy, hate, and revenge. Feelings that can be so natural to
some people.
At the same time he showed us the beauty of true love and the power of nature
as well as the decay of integrity of some of the characters.
From the beginning he leads us to an atmosphere filled with fear and
anguish. He plays with us with a psychological montage, jumping from
happy moments to moments of uncertainty, several images describe a
gray environment in which rain and inclement weather put us in the
imperious necessity of become part of the movie and experiment the
characters suffering.
The movie refers to our nature as human beings, nature that does not
change with time or knowledge or cultural and social differences.
"
I can not live without my life, I can not die without my soul".
The necessity of punish himself is what takes Heathcliff to the
madness and then to his encounter with his eternal love.
Passion has been a motivation in our lives for all times, music,
painting, Bach, Beethoven, Raphael, Picasso, are just a little
examples of passion. The more we loose it the more exiguous we become.
Juan
Fernado Burgos
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