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"Sylvia" - Salon (927 words) |
 | You wouldn't necessarily know that from the title: "Sylvia" is ostensibly about the life of the troubled poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963, not long after her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, left her and their two children for another woman. |
| "Sylvia" doesn't take us that deep into the controversy -- it ends with Plath's death, just after she has placed a tidy trayful of bread and milk in the room where her two children sleep, sealed off that room and retreated to the kitchen, where she then turns on the gas. |
| For all its problems as a movie, "Sylvia" at least strives to make the point that the only two people who can know what goes on in a marriage are the people who are actually in it. |
| Unfashionable Observations Movie Review - Sylvia (2003) (605 words) |
| Upon accosting him for the first time on account of the critique, however, Sylvia is not so much angry or upset by the bad review of her work, but rather intrigued by the author of the critique. |
| Utterly crestfallen, Sylvias paranoia and depression spiral out of control, ultimately ending in a curious revelation wherein beauty and salvation from her life of unrequited love lie in suicide. |
| This is a sad movie that never quite achieves an intimacy with the audience that would really allow us to experience that sadness along with the characters. |
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