A Dance with Mr. Lefroy Posted at 10:31 AM
Not everyone can afford a happy ending. Wicked still, not everyone can afford a life long enough, even though destined for an ending denied of happiness. Not everyone can afford everything. Yet some cannot even afford...anything, altogether..
If I had my way, I would choose a life lived...than a life remembered..
Jane Austen told us stories of immaculate love, ones that stoop to common propriety at first but everyone eventually dies a happy man.
Jane dreamt of an immaculate love story for herself too.
I had just done watching Becoming Jane two days ago. A film that never reached Malaysia *yes I did not overestimate you that far to have it here anyway..*. It is about the life of Jane Austen and how she fell in love with a poor lawyer with a reputation called Mr. Lefroy.
I love films set in the Victorian times. IN FACT, I love ballroom scenes set in the Victorian times. I find Victorian balls incredibly diverting...I liked the Lizzie-Darcy scene in Pride and Prejudice because it was very coy and witty...but this..this is by far my favourite Victorian ballroom scene yet. It invokes such ardour in a scene that I can watch it over and over...
...especially when Mr. Lefroy surprises Jane by joining her in the dance there. Oh the eye contact, such cynical charms. I've had a peculiar crush on James McAvoy since forever and that half smirk is to die for. IT'S HIM BEING A GLASWEGIAN AND A BLARDY BRILLIANT ACTOR THAT HAS IT DONE I'M TELLING YOU!
Anyway...their love was unfavourable in all possible ways that...Jane died young, and never married.
It's ironic how a person can envision the best things love can do to people, and not be able to keep a similar story to herself...
That's how life is really. Sometimes if you're given cake, you're meant to share it out...more than you probably think you should.
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KL was great. Too good to be told. That's all. XD
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