Backbencher
Weblog for HIST 381 at NDSUFriday, May 02, 2008
Film Review: My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career was not a brilliant movie. I can say that this was very boring for me. It was an old movie so that lost my interest from the get go and then the story was just boring. Sam Neil did add a little interest but couldn’t save the movie and me boredom. What can I say, My Brilliant Career is about Sybylla, a girl with big dreams of becoming a writer . She lives in the outback with her family. They are struggling from something of a drought and her annoying mother decides that they can’t afford to keep her around anymore cause they can’t afford it. She is sent to her rich grandma’s house where she tries to love. She is forced into an arranged engagement, doesn’t marry him, and then she actually falls in love with another, Harry. She and Harry fall in love, Harry wants her to marry him, she declines and needs find herself more. She then goes and works as a governess for some people cause her father owes them money. She gives up her love for the rich man Harry in order to keep her dream alive. In the end she writes a book and it gets published. Boring. I just didn’t get into this movie. It did have some good shots of how the outback can get pretty crazy with windstorms, and some incite on upper class living. But all in all it was a chore to get through this movie.
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