Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Novel: Jane Austen Screenplay: Deborah Moggach Additional Dialogue: Emma Thompson (uncredited)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Simon Woods, Matthew Macfadyen
Genre: Drama, Romance

Pride & Prejudice is the Joe Wright directed movie adaptation of Jane Austen's novel and Deborah Moggach's screenplay. He's later worked again with Keira Knightley in Atonement, but I think this movie is a little better despite Academy Award and others nominations seems to disagree.

Set in a completely different time, there's still a lot to recognize and learn from the Georgian England. While the class-consciousness and social roles have developed since then, first impressions, gossip and assumptions still holds it candle over life centuries later.

What brings this movie above many other trying to tell similar stories is the dialogue. While spoken in a manner we no longer use, it's still witty and interesting with a lot of passion. Keira Knightley does as very good role as Elizabeth Bennet and the supporting cast is impressive as well. Impressive enough it reminds me how lucky I'm to not be born into such an era. I believe I would be a much worse misfit than Elizabeth, but I would hardly have her style and will to do the best of it.

I've never read the novel it's based on, so my review stands solely on the movie. It's good enough I do believe I'll have to return to it once more later to figure out if its rating should stand and the impressions keep up with repeated viewings, but after first viewing its a story and movie I'll remember quite a while.