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Jane Austen Book Club- The Worst of Two Worlds

By Anonymous
Although The Jane Austen Book Club is a good film for Austen enthusiasts, the plotline was cliché, and the screenplay was poorly written.

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The Jane Austen Book Club paralleled the storylines of six books written by the icon Jane Austen. Meeting due to a common love for her, a group of women created the “Jane Austen Book Club” to discuss the themes relevant in her novels and plot ways to affect each other’s love lives. The main characters suffer from romantic trauma, strongly identifying with the books that Austen wrote. Just like with one of her novels, all six plotlines were resolved within the last ten minutes or, as Austen would have it, the last four pages of the book.

Although the movie was engaging for a literary nut, it was crowded with melodramatic romantic scenes and bland dialogue that did not follow in Austen’s example. The visuals were off putting, and the start of the movie, a full scale funeral for a dog, instigated a comical effect which was altered about halfway through the film, leaving the viewers confused. That said, the actors themselves were fairly good. Although the film took place over the course of six months, the characters seemed to change very little between the opening and end scenes. 

It is unclear whether the filmmakers sought to mimic Austen’s style exactly, but they seemed to replicate perfectly the worst parts of her fiction and destroy the best parts. The film became more documentary than fiction, and for those who are merely looking for an entertaining romance rather than a deep look into Austen’s style, The Jane Austen Book Club is best to be passed over.

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