Becoming Jane

I have just seen the film "Becoming Jane", from 2007 (you can see the trailer if you click on the title of the film). The plot is about Jane Austers life, a kind of biography, with obviously some fiction details.

To sum up, Jane is a young woman in a "poor" family who likes writing. However, because of her bad economical situation her mother wants that she married someone rich. Several men try to ask her for marriage, but she refuses them. She felt in love with a "poor" lawyer and they try to run away, but at the last moment Jane decided that it would be bad for both.

Meanwhile, Jane is always writing and more or less after the half of the film she begins to write "Pride and Prejudice" and at the ending of the film she's a known writer.

I really like this film, as I like Pride and Prejudice too.

I have read several times the original version of the book in German, the short version which we read in English, an audio CD version of it (very popular in Germany, this one has about ten CD's! I always fall asleept after few chapters!) and about four times the film.

One of the critical receptions about the film is that the plot is very similar to "Pride and Perjudice", which is certainly true. However I don't think that this makes the film worse.

What's more, knowing the novel it's great to look the film because you always can find some details from Janes biography which are related to Pride and Prejudice.

For example, I recognize clearly Jane's (the novel character) sisters as Jane (the author). One of the Bennets sister is always reading, the nature from Lydia, always talking (like Jane's author cousin) and that she runs away with Wickham...

In my opinion it's a great book, even it needs a special attention to understanding the characters.

It's a well-known truth that... ( I love this beginning!)