{"id":26465,"date":"2020-12-31T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2020-12-31T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T09:48:02","slug":"a-review-of-the-2013-film-the-invisible-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26465","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2013 film &#8220;The Invisible Woman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You could call this the invisible film since it has made little impact since its release and I only caught up with it during the latest lockdown of the 2020 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike &#8220;The Invisible Man&#8221;, this is not a science fiction movie, but allegedly a true story of how the famous English writer Charles Dickens (played by Ralph Fiennes who also directed) falls in love with the much younger Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones whose break-out role was a year later with &#8220;The Theory Of Everything&#8221;) who becomes his mistress and muse. It was a relationship which had to be hidden from the public, making Nelly &#8216;invisible&#8217;.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The account is presented from Nelly&#8217;s point of view because the film is based on the (somewhat controversial) biography penned by Claire Tomalin. The British do like period dramas and the film looks good, but I found the framing device &#8211; Nelly&#8217;s forlorn walks on Margate beach years after the death of Dickens &#8211; rather contrived and there is too little narrative to excite one&#8217;s interest or stir the emotions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could call this the invisible film since it has made little impact since its release and I only caught up with it during the latest lockdown of the 2020 pandemic. Unlike &#8220;The Invisible Man&#8221;, this is not a science fiction movie, but allegedly a true story of how the famous English writer Charles Dickens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26469,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions\/26469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}