Bright Star (2009)

Synaesthesia, nightingales, and love. These are several of the wonderful things associated with the poems of John Keats. He lived a life of a poet, and he was deeply in love, but his life was tragically ended at a very young age. This adaptation of the love that occurred between Keats and Fanny Brawne is pure melancholy that transcends any other work labored to capture the essence of romance in the cinema. This film is a celebration of love and romance. They lived in an era when England was reaching prominence in the Romantic Movement. In almost every shot, Jane Campion obtains the perfect mood of the period. Any painting associated with Romanticism resembles the characteristics of the story, and its colors. The flowers, Brawne’s design of her own coats, and the language, all appear to the senses, they add to the taste of the era along with the delicate visuals that contribute to the Romanticism terrain. The narrative is almost perfect, for it is mostly from the point of view of Brawne, which ‘Bright Star,’ is a poem Keats composed and dedicated to her. Wishaw, is significantly ideal as Keats, his eyes are engaging, and he will pull you into the poetic array necessary to portray the character. And Cornish as Brawne gives a performance that deserves every piece of respect. Further and further, this movie captures the poetic appeal of Keats, and it is unmistakably beautiful, especially the ending, with the violets assembled on the English soil captivating the soul of Keats as the movie comes to a close, and Wishaw tones the fadeout and the credits with a voice over reciting one of the best poems written by Keats, which times perfectly all the way to the end credits. As the credits begin, listen to the poem as life gets better by the second when the visual and auditory combined give the whole apprehension of an experience through synaesthesia, nightingales, and love.