Title: Dreadful-Read the Book Instead
Review: I thought this film was dreadful. Thank goodness Plath's daughter had the sense and premonition to refuse to let the producers use the poet's work in this trite film. What was the point? To see Plath put her head in the oven? To re-play tiresome cliches (the sexual symbolism in this film is sophomoric)over and over? Paltrow is an actress of little depth who clearly has no insight into Plath's character or intelligence and can only play her like a wounded ingenue-how disappointing. Hearing her "read" two lines of Sylvia Plath's poetry made me want to laugh out loud. Really, avoid this and read any of the biographies available or, better yet, Sylvia's letters, poetry or diaries. I'm amazed to see the good reviews for this film on Amazon-it's one of the worst I've seen recently and really does a dis-service to Sylvia Plath's talent and complex, if troubled, personality.
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