"WUTHERING HEIGHTS" is the latest film by controversial director Emerald Fennell
Margot Robbie
Jacob Elordi
Hong Chau
Emerald Fennell
Wuthering heights 2026
Emily Bronte
Owen Cooper
Alison Oliver
Shazad Latif
Heathcliff and Catherine
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Margot Robbie
Jacob Elordi
Hong Chau
Emerald Fennell
Wuthering heights 2026
Emily Bronte
Owen Cooper
Alison Oliver
Shazad Latif
Heathcliff and Catherine
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00:00Wuthering Heights or should I say quote-unquote Wuthering Heights? I have so
00:05many mixed thoughts about this as a whole. One, I am not always a purist who thinks
00:09that adaptations have to be a perfect one-for-one recreation of the source
00:12material. I'm cool with things if they want to switch a couple things up, explore
00:16different avenues if it's done well. And I'm even less averse to it when it's
00:19something like Wuthering Heights which is in public domain so it means that
00:22like tomorrow someone could decide to make a new one if they wanted to. There
00:26have been attempts in the past in many languages and interpretations and many
00:29more will come in the future. In the grand scheme of things I really don't
00:31think this movie is causing that much damage except you might end up with more
00:34people reading the book. Which brings me to my next point! I kind of had a personal
00:38vendetta against this book in high school. I literally have a photo album of me
00:41burning these notes after we finished the segment and I wasn't usually someone who
00:44disliked the books that I was given to read in school including other classics
00:48like The Count of Monte Cristo. But I hated Wuthering Heights when I read it. I think
00:52maybe it was how it was presented to us or maybe it was just a little bit too
00:56stuffy in the reading. I do think that maybe we represented this a little bit
01:00more as a romance than it ended up being so then it's way easier to be like well
01:04every single one of these people is horrible and I don't want any of them
01:07to have good things and the bad things that are happening to them aren't bad
01:10enough to make up for what I've been put through. But I actually went back and
01:12checked that photo album to see some of the comments and it was all variations of
01:16like Wuthering Heights can burn in hell, I think I love you, I fucking hate
01:19Wuthering Heights, and my personal favorite yay good has been restored into the
01:23universe which is essentially the evil has been defeated before Cabin in the
01:27woods even had time to come out and that was all other girls in the class so we
01:34all seem to be on the same page about this book and we like that teacher so
01:38there's definitely something up. Now for those unaware about like the base plot of
01:42what Wuthering Heights is it's pretty well this gothic ghost story both with
01:45ghosts that should be taken as literal and figurative ones figuratively in the
01:49sense that the events that we're learning about have all already taken place and
01:52some characters are long dead but their presence is just still so heavily felt and
01:56then at times characters are literally claiming to see ghosts. The tale is all
01:59being relayed to us through a variety of narrators coming to us through the
02:02initial narrator Mr. Lockwood an outsider learning about the sordid events
02:06years later. An aspect that a lot of the adaptations including this one don't
02:10super concern themselves with which right from the jump is gonna change things
02:13because we are getting information from someone who's already probably editing it
02:16because it happened so long ago and they're trying to make themselves look
02:19better in the story that's getting passed down to this guy who has his own biases
02:23and ego and then which whatever he remembers is what we're hearing so we're
02:26not even getting those layers through the story which I get it it'd be a lot to put
02:30to a single movie but it is possible but when you're talking about the book that
02:32isn't something to be separated because it's just so essential to the story and it
02:36really lets you know how many levels of like unreliable narrator you're
02:39dealing with. But the aspect of the story that most people concern
02:42themselves with is the destructive relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and a
02:46young orphan her father brings home Heathcliff. So you do have a lot of people
02:49who just take it as this tragic romance which Emerald Fennell has absolutely
02:52done with this movie. Honestly it just seems like Wuthering Heights was her posh
02:56Twilight and I'm also pretty sure that Stephanie Meyer takes a similar
02:58interpretation of the story while acknowledging that the characters are
03:01horrible just based on the way that she has Bella talking about it in a
03:04clip. Thinking that the love between Catherine and Heathcliff is their only
03:07redeeming quality when that's actually the thing that causes the most damage. It's a
03:11possessive love that just leads to destruction and hate. But yeah Stephanie Meyer
03:15really loves to parallel those classics. But I digress I shan't turn this into
03:18another Twilight video even it feels like this again this book was like
03:22Twilight to Emerald Fennell. Well I first read the book when I was 14 it was just
03:26the most thrilling experience and so turning it into a film I wanted to reflect
03:32that first experience. I don't even think that's a bad way to approach an
03:36adaptation it's how Alex Garland approached Annihilation and it just kind of
03:39let him distill the themes and imagery that would really stick without getting
03:43bogged down in like how many details are in that book. But again the key word I
03:47said there was distill all the themes. This adaptation is ignoring most of the
03:51key themes of the book. Even that I feel is something that could be interesting
03:54like the way that you read something with you when you're younger the feeling
03:57that it instills inside you the things that you hone in on the most I do
04:01actually think that's a really interesting way to approach certain media
04:04because it helps you get inside the mindset of someone but I also fully
04:09understand why people have issues with this but I also you know I get where she's
04:12coming from. This book does have some of the most like absurdly romantic lines
04:17ever or things that like just get taken as such strong devoted love. Like
04:22Catherine saying he shall never know I love him and that not because he's
04:26handsome but because he's more myself than I am whatever our souls are made of
04:30his and mine are the same. And later Heathcliff saying if he loved with all the
04:34powers of his puny being he couldn't love as much in 80 years as I could in a day.
04:39Yeah of course if you're young and you're going through the
04:40development of life and your every all your emotions and your hormones are just
04:44so heightened you're gonna read lines like that and be like oh my god I wish
04:48I wish someone loved me that much. But the point is is once you get through the
04:52book you should be like may a love like that never find me. So many people want
04:56that kind of love that's all-consuming but so few stories actually engage with
05:00all the ways that that can go wrong. How unsustainable it is when you care more
05:03about the love itself and what it means for you than the person that is
05:06actually infecting your mind. It actually becomes selfish in how
05:09obsessive it is. And that's before we even get into some of the social issues
05:12that let this build up to the disaster it is in the book but
05:15it is so much about two people who have very few redeeming qualities and cause so
05:20much damage to everyone around them in their obsessive pursuits and don't give a
05:23singular fuck as long as they feel like they're getting some kind of
05:26semblance of a win. And that's not love. It's really brutal stuff and there are so
05:30many other elements going on here. There's cycles of abuse, there's anger and
05:33vengeance, there's racial and class elements, and the way they infect every
05:37aspect of a culture. Trickling down to the next generation almost doomed to
05:41repeat it unless somebody stops. And this book is trying to do that. We get the
05:44next generation and how that all started passing down, how the obsessive love is
05:48just a catalyst for that damage. And it's impressive that a lot of those
05:51themes, particularly the depravity and toxicity of the relationships leading to
05:55trauma, were explored in a time where that school of thought was just starting to
05:59develop. Like modern psychology was not a thing. So I gotta admit, Stuffy as the book
06:03may be, it's pretty impressive for a 15 year old to pull this together. Amazing
06:07what you can achieve while learning the arts at home with wealth. And to be fair,
06:11I get that the learning at home part came after a couple of their siblings died of
06:14tuberculosis while they were away at boarding school that had some pretty
06:17harsh conditions, but still. I was going to school and working at pretzel maker when
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07:32since reread the book for this video and I definitely appreciate it more while
07:35still fully understanding why the writing style just might not feel great to a lot
07:38of people. I also feel like I now have a better appreciation for flawed
07:41characters and unreliable narrators that makes this a much better read versus just
07:45the like frustration I remember feeling and just like hating these characters.
07:49Like I feel like it was before I realized like okay just because someone's a
07:52protagonist doesn't mean that they are like the moral compass of a story and it is
07:56okay to read something without having a moral compass but I get why some people
08:00just don't like that. There are some moments of this movie that tap into that
08:03like they do show some moments of Katherine and Heathcliff being quite cruel but so
08:07much of that is coming about by trying to cut corners and speedrun aspects so you
08:11have time to add in more moments of sexual affair. But even that aspect wasn't as
08:15intense as the marketing and early screenings would have led me to believe.
08:18It is erotic, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of sexual moments especially when
08:21compared to the novel that's essentially all just like brutal yearning and no
08:24touching. The way people were talking about this I thought it was going to put
08:27salt burn to shame and someone slurps cum water out of a tub drain in that movie
08:31and then fucks a grave. Something they probably would have felt a little bit
08:34more at home in this movie and they don't even go for it. So other than a
08:37couple moments where it feels a little bit racier it is pretty tame and I'm not
08:40saying I wanted it to be that way but I was just expecting it to be more
08:43volatile considering some of those early reviews and just the chaotic and
08:46destructive nature of the characters in question. If she was gonna go like I
08:50could just kind of assume that if she was gonna go all out make it all sexy that it was
08:54gonna turn that all those moments were gonna be so chaotically just intense and
08:58I just don't we didn't get that. I do think some of it might have ended up
09:01getting edited after test screenings but it is really steering into that like
09:05tragic romance aspect. The characters feel a lot more redeeming. And by taming it in
09:09ways it starts to feel like another classic there is actually a character that
09:12gives a very heated Romeo and Juliet review which does feel like is trying to
09:16make more of a parallel with this movie then you know the thing it's supposed to be
09:20based off of but then just being pretty shallow in its execution. I guess I was
09:24just expecting to feel more strongly one way or the other with this movie. I am
09:27someone who tends to enjoy Emerald Fennell a lot more than most while still
09:30understanding the criticism that comes at her. I have covered both Promising
09:33Young Woman and Saltburn in detail on this channel if you want to check those
09:36videos out. I'll try to remember to link them down below. And I just felt so mild on
09:41so much of this movie. I'm sure if I had more positive experience with the book I'd be a
09:45lot more upset with some of these aspects I'm gonna go through when we're
09:48talking about the movie and comparing some of it to the book but even without
09:51that it just feels like it's missing something. Like the score is amazing
09:55Charlie did an amazing job with that the intro had me locked in. The set design
09:59and costuming is stunning you can absolutely see the attention to detail
10:02and all that. Fennell can articulate for hours every choice that was made there
10:06and you see it. There's a lot of shots that parallel other movies like Gone with
10:09the Wind and The Secretary. It's actually pretty funny at times the yearning is
10:13strong the performances are great for what they're being asked to do. But I just
10:16remember I was watching it and actively trying to figure out how I felt while
10:19it was going along. Like there are things that really work. Some better if you
10:23just separate it from the source material. But then it just started feeling so
10:26sterile in certain areas and like parts of me felt like oh my god this this is
10:31actually great. I could love this. And others were just kind of like okay I just
10:34maybe we got we got move this along a little bit. Which is honestly nothing I've
10:37ever said about an Emerald Fennell movie before. She usually has me locked in
10:40even if it's even if it's something that I'm not fully clicking on I am locked in. But I'll try
10:45to go
10:46through some of the changes that seem to be the most egregious to the novel. If I'm
10:49missing some feel free to leave them down below. But I'm also going to try to
10:52evaluate it as its own thing for the people who don't care about the book and
10:56just want to see Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi act up. Because it's definitely
11:00doing it for some people. Okay so right from the get-go we're getting some major
11:03changes. Hindley is not in the story and they kind of roll his character and
11:07purpose into the father Mr. Earnshaw. Which means that changes that entire
11:11dynamic too. And because she has no intention of getting us to that next
11:14generation you can kind of start getting rid of some of those characters and
11:17rolling them into other ones. Taking away some of the major inspirations for
11:21revenge from Heathcliff. Because they now you know rolled all of the gambling and
11:25the drinking into the father. You don't get that like the hostility between Hindley
11:30and Heathcliff anymore. But it's nowhere near as bad as what they're going to do
11:32with Isabella's character. She's probably handled the worst in terms of what she is
11:37in the novel. You are losing massive elements of that story to soften the edges of
11:43some other characters. Then we get into the casting. People have long debated
11:46Heathcliff's exact race. Bronte kept it kind of vague beyond him clearly having
11:51darker skin. A lot of people have said that this is just to kind of add the
11:54the air of mystery and the gothic nature to him. But it seems like he's either
11:57mixed race from the slave trade, Romani. There's a handful of racial words that
12:01have been used to describe him outside just the description of dark. I get that you
12:05can put a tan on Jacob Elordi and I guess he's from Spain on his paternal side but it
12:09is certainly not fully matching that definition. And I think it's important to
12:13keep that in mind because it's a component that's so deeply tied to the
12:16story and the social class aspect of it that this book is so fundamentally
12:20focused on. Like the ideas of social class and like who should be marrying who
12:24causes the major like really is the catalyst to set off so much of what goes
12:29wrong in the story. So Fenelle specifically saying she was taking a
12:31colorblind approach was kind of weird. You got White Heathcliff, you got Asian
12:35Nelly which honestly could have been explored in an interesting way but they don't
12:37really do anything with it. You love Han Chao though. Then you make Edgar Brown
12:40because the actors of Pakistani descent but then you just choose not to have any
12:44of that be relevant to the story. In a story where it feels like it has to be
12:47this is taking place in the 1770s. How do you take such care to so many of the
12:52visual details and then just drop that aspect entirely? I get it Elordi and Robbie
12:56play off each other amazingly. There's a world where this could have been some
12:59torrid dark academia disaster with similar themes to Wuthering Heights but just
13:03really going in on that toxic love. Then I guess at that point she'd just be
13:06dealing with the same kind of complaints she got about Saltburn being similar to
13:09the talents of Mr. Ripley. But no this had to be what she imagined Wuthering
13:12Heights to be when she was a teenager. Otherwise like most adaptations or at
13:16least the ones I've seen they don't bother doing the framing that this is a
13:19story being relayed to someone who becomes our separate narrator. I think it's
13:23mostly the television series that keeps Mr. Lockwood because they have more time
13:26to work with. But changing that framing does change the story but I
13:29understand why the movies just kind of leave it out. Okay so now we're gonna get into the
13:33movie which means spoilers if you don't want to know what happens. Spoiler time.
13:37But the movie immediately starts with misdirection. It's just a black screen and
13:40you hear the sounds of a guy. It kind of sounds like he's doing some stuff in a bed.
13:44Some very suggestive noises. But then it cuts to show that it's actually a man being
13:48hanged and the kids point out that he seems to have a stiffy. So right from the
13:51get-go it's letting us know that this movie's more sexual elements might be
13:55misdirected. But then it's also linking sex to pain and death and the brutality of the
13:59situation being witnessed which I'm guessing is to set up those themes going
14:03forward. Fennell specifically quoted as saying she wanted audiences to
14:06understand the connection between arousal and danger. And I do appreciate
14:10trying to point out the way that this era was very harsh even when it's so
14:13easy to romanticize the Victorian era. I think we forget that like people were
14:17dropping dead like flies at very young ages back then. But then the whole town
14:20just devolves into sexual chaos. Everyone with ramped up emotions following a
14:25public execution. I have heard that intro was probably more graphic in some test
14:29screenings and then changed but who knows. Now the Hanging Witch is being
14:32watched by a young Katherine Earnshaw and Nellie who's changed from a housekeeper
14:35to being more of a companion for Kathy doing some servitude duties. I guess
14:39Earnshaw took her in as the illegitimate child of a lord. Then that intro just
14:44comes ripping in with the Charlie XCX song where Emerald apparently uses hair
14:48from Robbie and a lordy to intertwine into the title card. Say what you will about
14:52her she knocks the title cards out of the park. Like I get that one of the main
14:55complaints about her is style over substance but at least the style hits. There are some
14:59absolutely striking imagery in this movie I can't lie. All for it to feel terribly
15:03sterile at times. But anyways the next day Earnshaw comes home after a bender
15:07with a young boy in tow who Kathy names Heathcliff after her dead brother. And
15:12again no live brother Hindley either. The two start forming an inseparable
15:15friendship which does seem to bother Nellie to some degree because she used to
15:19be Kathy's main companion. Nellie's not getting as hostile as Hindley did
15:23towards Heathcliff but again totally different dynamic there. In the book when
15:26Earnshaw brings Heathcliff home he's very kind to him. He seems to have way more
15:29of a connection with him than his own son and that causes a lot of the
15:32animosity between Hindley and Heathcliff. However there is also a theory that
15:35Heathcliff is actually Earnshaw's illegitimate son that he's bringing home.
15:39The book says that he went to Liverpool for business. He was on foot
15:42and was back within three days even though he had horses at his disposal.
15:47It didn't seem like he should have been able to get anywhere near that far. Then when
15:50Earnshaw gets home with him he just kind of becomes this adopted child. He's allowed
15:53sleeping in the same bed as Hindley and Kathy which is kind of unheard of while
15:57as Nellie in a similar position doesn't get that same experience. That's not
16:01related to this movie and a lot of people are like no I just I don't believe that
16:04so we will move on but you know it's it's fun there's a lot of this book's been
16:08around for so long and she's been dead she died before anybody knew she wrote it
16:12so it's not like anybody could ask specific questions. I will say they are
16:15really trying to maintain the class differences between Heathcliff and their
16:19family like the dad literally says that Heathcliff can be her new pet like an
16:22object that she can do whatever she wants with and without a Hindley that
16:25means that all of that like anger and abuse has to shift to Mr. Earnshaw
16:28being the one doling it out which Heathcliff takes on more of to protect
16:32Kathy. So this section is really just building up the friendship the affection
16:35the childhood love before cutting ahead to the future where we have Margot Robbie and
16:39Jacob Elordi as adults totally cutting out the teenager aspect of this so they
16:43don't even have that defense for their behavior uh early on in the story because
16:47they're they're full-grown adults now but somehow the writing of this story
16:50really makes a lot of those more negative qualities come across as more
16:54endearing there really are only a couple moments that are truly biting and really
16:58showing the cruelty that both of them can have. The cruelest thing so far is this
17:01damn wig for the attention to detail everywhere else this thing is rough.
17:06It's only around now that the Lintons move in near them when in the book it's
17:09when they were teenagers and they do not come calling as quickly as Kathy would
17:12like so she eventually makes her way to the Lintons home after it's become
17:15obvious that her father is drinking and gambling all their money away
17:18she feels like she may need to make that connection to marry for money.
17:22So after falling off their barrier wall and hurting her ankle,
17:24Katherine needs to stay there until she's well enough to walk.
17:28Heathcliff's instantly like oh I can go get her and carry her back and her dad's
17:30like no you fool we need this marriage.
17:33Very different from the book where the Lintons show up when they're still
17:35children so Kathy does still hurt her ankle when she's young there and has to
17:38stay there for weeks on end but when she comes back she's mostly bothered by how
17:42uncivil Heathcliff is compared to Edgar and his sister Isabella who is now not
17:46his sister just referred to as his ward and very infantile.
17:51But as mentioned Edgar is very different from his book counterpart.
17:53He's supposed to be this perfect opposition to Heathcliff in every way.
17:58He's very white, he has light hair, he has blue eyes, he's much more delicate.
18:01They do get the prim and regal nature of him right here but it is just odd to
18:05change such a fundamental element with these characters so severely to just
18:09you can just literally remove race from the equation.
18:12The social aspects are still in place and Shehzal Azif is doing a great job in the role
18:16but it is fundamentally changing a major aspect of the story.
18:19Now in the movie when Katherine returns home she has transformed a beautiful gown,
18:22jewelry, perfectly put together which Heathcliff sees and essentially feels that
18:26it confirms his worst fears and the resentment that's been building in the six weeks she's been
18:30gone.
18:30Won't have anything to do with her when he's the first person she seeks out which you
18:33know I kind of get it is like brutal for him he knows what's coming.
18:36Not that they stay apart for long she goes to try to find him and comes across Joseph
18:41getting it on with one of the other servants.
18:43Quite different from novel Joseph he is much nicer here and much more sensual.
18:48But this is probably the most racy scene.
18:49Kathy sees the two of them setting up to go quite rough with a horse bridle in the woman's mouth.
18:54And this is Zilla by the way one of the housekeepers that's also in the book
18:57just again being used in a very different way.
18:59But before we can really get going Heathcliff shows up and lays his body on top of Katherine's
19:03covering her eyes and mouth so she can't see or react.
19:06Which really only succeeds in awaking all sorts of sexual deviances in her mind.
19:10The sound of kneading bread is getting her going.
19:12She heads off to the moors, the damn moors that I haven't even mentioned yet.
19:15The only thing I always remember about Emily Bronte in this damn book is the goddamn moors.
19:20Now this is a moment I thought was going to get pretty racy.
19:22He kind of walks in on her you know pleasuring herself and he's sucking her fingers before
19:27they've even had time to do their first kiss.
19:29But Katherine stops it from happening after he says he'd follow her around like a dog.
19:34Romance truly is dead.
19:35What else are we here for Emerald?
19:37You're not doing anything else with the story.
19:39And by the time Kathy gets back to the house flustered from her emotions,
19:43Linton is there to propose.
19:44Oh my god.
19:45Back in the day it really was just like hey you're cute.
19:48I tolerated you for a few weeks on our little dates.
19:50Let's get settled up.
19:51She then goes to talk to Nellie about it.
19:53She's of course said yes because she feels like she has to.
19:56But she knows she can't ever truly love him because of Heathcliff.
19:59Because they have the same soul.
20:01I was clearly on some shit while I was watching this movie because I just have one note in my
20:04notebook that says I'm a Mr. Linton.
20:06Don't get tripped up over people who don't appreciate you and the stability you can provide
20:09kings.
20:10I get that Edgar has a lot more flaws in the book but you can't really blame him.
20:13His wife is constantly taunting him with another man.
20:15In the movie not so much.
20:16While having this conversation with Nellie though the emotions get a little bit intense and she
20:20starts to attack Nellie for not being loved by anyone.
20:22So when Nellie notices that Heathcliff's gonna overhear the conversation she makes sure
20:26to restate that Catherine accepted the proposal and sets Catherine up to specifically say that
20:31marrying Heathcliff would degrade her.
20:33Social class and all.
20:35Missing the part where she describes the way she loves him and the classic
20:38because he's more myself than I whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.
20:42Which let's be real here is just a lot of big talk if you're not gonna do anything about it.
20:46I think the movie admits the part where it says that Linton's soul has no similarity but it is
20:50it's a pretty damn romantic statement if only it just didn't get twisted into cruelty.
20:54So after hearing that Heathcliff does the one thing he promised to never do.
20:58Leave.
20:59One of the shots that parallels a classic the dramatically orange-red sky behind him as he
21:03takes off on a horse which is like gone with the wind.
21:06But by the time Cathy wakes up the next morning she's ready to take back the proposal and let
21:10Heathcliff know but he's already gone.
21:12Which makes her miserable but kind of just pushes her into going along with the wedding.
21:15You see the prep, the striking imagery, her walking through the moors in her wedding dress.
21:20Seeing the devotion and love Edgar seems to feel for her that she doesn't.
21:24Even Isabella is obsessed with Cathy.
21:25She literally made her a doll that used her own hair as the hair.
21:29But they really start to set up the idea that this mansion essentially becomes a prison for
21:33Cathy but it really is a prison of her own design with people that seem to worship her.
21:37Edgar even has her room designed for the walls to look like her skin which they did actually use
21:42a bunch of images of Margot Robbie's skin to recreate.
21:46Which just kind of adds this weird level of obsession to him downplaying his emotions and
21:50ability to see her as her own person.
21:51Fennell specifically said that he's someone who likes to collect things which is also reflected
21:55in a lot of Isabella's collecting habits suggesting that Cathy is just another thing
21:59for him to collect.
22:00Which really works for a movie where they've only known each other for a month or two but
22:04in the book they'd known each other since they were 12.
22:06There is at least a foundation there for the love that Edgar felt towards her even if some of it
22:10was
22:10idealized of what he wanted her to be or thought she could be or thought she was.
22:14I will say there are a bunch of interesting designs in this house.
22:16There's a hand fireplace floors that look like resin covered blood and actually seem wet.
22:22All while she dispassionately has intimacy with him until one night she tries to pretend he's Heathcliff
22:27covering her mouth and eyes like that night in the barn.
22:30When you think your wife's a little bit freaky but she's just trying to mimic
22:32a non-sexual moment she had with the person she actually loves.
22:35There's also a moment in here where Isabella is begging to go to a public hanging.
22:38One that's specifically about a woman being hanged and how deeply that affects Cathy.
22:42It then cuts from that Christmas where she went back to Wuthering Heights to maybe try to feel
22:46some connection to anything where she just sees her drunken destitute father insulting her for not
22:51having children but then by next Christmas she is now pregnant but then goes back to her room that
22:57night to sit on her bed where she crushes a bunch of eggs which is something she did to Heathcliff
23:01one
23:01night because she was upset with him.
23:03It's been years this man returns to sneak into her bedroom urging her to track him down in the moors
23:07where he just appears out of the mist.
23:09So dramatic my guy.
23:11Upon his return it's clear that he seems to be rich now.
23:14I think they later reveal that it's through gambling.
23:16I think the book leaves a little bit more ambiguous that it could have been through a variety of
23:20not not as savory means.
23:23Pulling some Gatsby shit or I guess Gatsby pulled some Heathcliff
23:26shit by buying Wuthering Heights to be close by.
23:28And the passion in this reconnection is just instant to the point she invites him to dinner.
23:32Girl what are you doing?
23:33People aren't playthings.
23:34And there's like a line later on where she's like no I named him he's mine.
23:38She does see him as this object for her to own.
23:41But playthings are literally what all the people around them become.
23:44Leading into a pretty brutal interpretation of Isabella who is instantly into Heathcliff.
23:48Something the captain becomes quite cruel about probably one of the only areas she is really
23:52cruel in this movie because it doesn't matter that she's married.
23:55Heathcliff is hers.
23:56And they work so hard to make this whole section seem pretty romantic over the cruelty that Heathcliff
24:00immediately starts in within the book.
24:02They have this back and forth where he's like I didn't break your heart.
24:04You broke my heart and that hurt yours in return.
24:07Leading to the first kiss which quickly escalates to them having sex all over the place all around
24:11the moors which again does not happen in the books.
24:13It's just a lot of destructive yearning over there.
24:16And while they're on these different escapades she has never let him know that she's pregnant.
24:20Obviously this isn't sustainable and some of the drama starts to seep in.
24:23He assumed that she knew that Nellie knew he was listening in that night when she was proposed to
24:28but she didn't so that makes her go to banish Nellie away blaming her for Heathcliff leaving
24:34and the life she now feels trapped in.
24:36This movie really steers into Nellie being a meddler that that avenue.
24:39She immediately goes to Edgar to to tell him about the dalliances that Catherine's been having
24:45with Heathcliff so she doesn't have to leave.
24:47So Edgar forbids her from ever seeing Heathcliff still letting her off the hook on it all by saying
24:51that Heathcliff was taking advantage of her good-heartedness.
24:54So when she doesn't show up for their meeting Heathcliff chucks something at the window for attention.
24:58She tells Edgar that it was probably a bird so she wants to go check on it to make sure
25:03it doesn't
25:03suffer which I feel is that she just wanted to go outside and explain herself to Heathcliff so
25:07he doesn't have to suffer.
25:09At this point he overhears that she's pregnant and even after finding out that the kid isn't
25:12his because she was pregnant before he got back.
25:15He doesn't mind if anything it made him feel like he was cucking Edgar even more.
25:18Edgar who's been nothing but nice to him at this point and not a bad man at all and
25:21you know still doesn't stop Heathcliff from going on this whole foreplay rant saying he'd kill
25:26Edgar to get to her which actually does end up making Catherine shut down
25:29and shut it all down saying that he's now too late to have her.
25:33Even though she started this toxic foreplay by taunting Heathcliff with Edgar.
25:37So he immediately goes to hook up with Isabella because he knows it'll bother Kathy the most.
25:40Openly telling Isabella that he's going to be cruel that he'll never love her
25:43that it would just be to torment Kathy that he'd be thinking of Kathy every moment they were together
25:47and she agrees to it all so they go elope the next morning.
25:51A major difference from the book where she has no idea she's being used until it's too late just
25:56sees him as romantic and brooding it's once they elope that she realizes how cruel he is.
26:01The movie does include her writing the letters to Nellie detailing how abusive he is but it also
26:06changes it to have Heathcliff dictating that treatment in the letters hoping that it would
26:10find its way to Kathy so that she might try to do something to save Isabella from this fate
26:14to leave Edgar and be with him to stop it all.
26:17Then they take it even further to just fundamentally change that abuse that Isabella faced
26:21because they just turned it into this like quirky BDSM thing where she's chained up acting like a
26:26dog like that scene in The Secretary. Making it seem like the more sensual fucked up kind of toxic
26:30instead of the like disgusting cruel abuse where Heathcliff hangs her dog over a chair almost
26:36immediately after they get married. I get that it's hard to present someone who's this monstrous in
26:40a romantic way but that should have probably been the indication that you shouldn't completely steer
26:45into the romance aspect. They are both horrible people and as if to try to make up for this and
26:49give
26:49her more autonomy in the situation they let Isabella insult him for not being able to read and that's
26:55why she's the one who has to write out these letters because I guess they're really just trying to
26:59make it seem like it's it's less she's less of a victim. All happening while Catherine's just been
27:03weeping around the house at the loss of Heathcliff to Edgar's ire leading to her being closed off in
27:08a room as some kind of punishment until she gets over it because he shouldn't have to see that and
27:12Nellie's really encouraging him to do that. But when that letter to Nellie goes unanswered Heathcliff tells
27:17Isabella to write something directly to Cathy which never actually reaches her because Nellie
27:21starts to burn them. As Catherine just falls deeper and deeper into despair writing that classic
27:25Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Catherine Heathcliff, who she was born, who she became,
27:30and who she wants to be. And one like the book where she dies in childbirth they completely close
27:34off the future by having the baby die inside her ignored long enough for it to go septic. I do
27:39feel
27:39like back then the chances of her surviving even if it was addressed immediately seemed kind of low but
27:43still leads to some strikingly tragic imagery trying to use leeches to suck out the toxins,
27:48blood just spilling from her body and death. In the book she's also been neglecting her health
27:53and well-being for months and that just leads to the baby being born two months early and then she
27:57dies after a final confrontation with Heathcliff when he is aware that it's very clear that she's
28:02going to die. In the movie he never has the chance to see her again before her death. By the
28:07time he
28:07hears she's dying he can't make it there in time. Getting there almost immediately after it happens,
28:11begging her to haunt him in any form and not leave him where he can't find her. It's being played
28:15very
28:16romantically here in the movie. The book it feels a lot more petulant and and selfish like he doesn't
28:21want her to have peace in the afterlife, doesn't want her to rest as long as he's still alive. And
28:26between that and the final conversation he has with Kathy it really just shows how selfish they both
28:30are. But she does seem to haunt him until his death. We don't get to see that in the movie
28:34though
28:34because there is no continued generation in the book. He and Isabella also have a child and that's why you
28:39start getting a new loop that you just kind of hope gets closed before that trauma can repeat.
28:43So instead the movie is just showing us this like romantic montage of their love through the movie
28:47ending on a moment of them as children right after Heathcliff got a beating for you know taking
28:51blame for something Catherine did and he thinks she's asleep and says that he'll love her forever
28:55and after which she hears and smiles. Yeah they really found a way to try to make it sweet and
29:01tender
29:01instead of really honing in on the abusive monsters they are. And for how messed up everybody tried to say
29:06that this version was going to be. They cut out some of the stuff that was the most messed up
29:10especially for the time it was written just cutting out the part where he digs up her grave to try
29:15to
29:15lay next to her dead body hoping they decayed together. But hey maybe that's something you can
29:19only pull off one time in your filmography and she used it on Salt Burn. So yeah this does really
29:23just end up feeling like a very dark tragic fan fiction of Wuthering Heights honing in on the intensity
29:28of the dramatic love and really downplaying how horrendous they are as people like they even again they
29:34even try to make the fact that like Heathcliff is very cruel and is planning on torturing Isabella
29:39they turn it into this kind of like sexy thing which it is not. And then they only really let
29:43Kathy be cruel a couple times and even that doesn't reach the heights it's supposed to. Movie Catherine
29:48actually listens to Edgar's request to stay away from Heathcliff as best as she can but Catherine
29:52taunts him with Heathcliff. And I feel like that just would have made this movie way more interesting.
29:56The way it's set up just undercuts so much of what it could have been. And I do feel like
30:00that leads to it
30:01getting pretty bland at times even if you do cut it off from the source material. Because we don't
30:04get the next generation we don't see the tortured haunted Heathcliff. We don't get any of the ghosts.
30:09I get that we're kind of in the era of movies doing the whole generational trauma thing but the
30:13way this engages with it is so interesting where you're letting those characters be just as terrible
30:18as what made them be that way in the first place. I think without having that next generation
30:23and missing out on what can be considered as the loop closing while they're set up in a way that
30:28it
30:28all just repeat itself with the same obsessions and the same cruelty as a result of that abuse.
30:33This just completely avoids that. This movie is definitely romanticizing how big and deep their
30:38love was which is something the book isn't actually making a statement on. It's not
30:41meant to mean more because of how intense it was. It really showed how selfish and destructive it was.
30:47It hurt them. The people around them made them commit horrible acts and they were even cruel to each
30:51other if it meant that they had a chance at getting what they wanted. This is not a love you
30:54should ever hope
30:55find you. You want to be loved by someone who ultimately wants the best for you and your life
31:00regardless of what it might mean for them. Yeah you read this book and wish they just gotten together
31:04because that would have kept them away from other people and maybe things wouldn't have gotten to
31:07the disastrous heights they did. They could have just been you know selfish together. It might have
31:11just really sucked for their children dealing with that level of narcissism and parents.
31:15This movie really does just let it all exist in this realm of passion where there is some guilt on
31:19Kathy's side. She doesn't like that she's committing infidelity versus the book version who is so selfish as
31:24to want both the passion of Heathcliff and the stability of Edgar. But that's really going to do
31:28it for the movie. Let me know what you're thinking down below. I know some people are really enjoying
31:32this because they've never read the book so they can just kind of like take this as this dark romance.
31:37But even as that I found that there were so many areas of this that were lackluster. You know,
31:41they cut out different characters. They blend people together. They don't do the second half of the book.
31:45You think that that's so that they could find more time to fit in more themes. But this is like
31:50a two
31:50hour movie where it strips it down to again the 14 year old version of this that was able to
31:57romanticize all these different aspects that are truly horrific. And honestly, based on the movies
32:02that she's made before, I actually would have felt very comfortable with Emerald making that very
32:07selfish love, that chaotic love, the destruction of people around them, the selfishness of it all.
32:12And that's just not what we get. So mostly just feels like there's entire sections of wasted time
32:17in this. The ending did get me. I did have some emotional reactions where I almost cried because
32:22I'm like, yeah, it's doing a good job. It's expressing things in this way that is tragic.
32:26It just could have been so much more. But let me know what you guys are thinking down below.
32:30Are you a fan of the book? Do you hate the book and hate the movie? Do you hate the
32:32book and like the
32:33movie? Do you love the book and hate the movie? Do you actually really love the book and still
32:37find love for this and what it is because you can separate it enough? Let me know down below.
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