I have always been a fan of good well-made movies. But lately, I have found myself becoming more and more interested in older movies, whether biographic, dramatic, war-related… Anything with a renowned director and an amazing cast grabs my attention.

After watching Atonement, of Joe Wright, I grew interested in the director’s work, and put it on my bucket list to watch Pride and Prejudice. Now I know, most of you would think “oh you haven’t watched it yet?” or, to some of you who know me personally and know what a book-lover I am, you might be outraged that I haven’t read Jane Austen’s book. Well for the first time, I actually watched the movie before reading the book. Yes, yes, very unusual, but for once, I cannot say disappointing.   I’m not saying I am a professional movie critic, nor am I bragging that I can analyze the bits and pieces of a film due to my Master’s in Media being slightly related to the field, but I was, if I may say, “literarily” amazed by a movie in which I felt I was flipping through the pages of a book.

The scenery might have been perfectly explanatory but still left room for your imagination. The camera shots were so expressive you could read through the scenes. But what amazed me the most was the spoken English language. And no, leave your “yes of course she’s an English lecturer at a University this is what she will notice first”. It is actually what I noticed MOST.

Simply because it was BEAUTIFUL.

Hearing two people who are falling in love with each other converse with the most sought after and refined words and sentence structure, it made me feel sorry for myself and my own generation, as well as the upcoming one. Because let’s face it, the whole beauty of words and language is fading. All I hear now is people replacing “she said” by “she was like”, or girls using the word “like” as if it is a preposition for every other word, or students using “u” instead of “you” because they got so used to texting in the wrong way that it became a bad habit which they probably will never get rid of.

Seeing that a gentleman could love a girl to a point of saving her family from shame at his own expenses, and yet the most you see of that love is leaning foreheads against each other with a sunset in the background. Now I am not saying I am an extremist with medieval convictions as to a girl should not “kiss” pre-wedding. But as a hopeless romantic, it is nice to immerse oneself once in a while in the hope of finding such respect and platonic love at the beginning of a relationship.

Come on guys, I will not speak for others as I am sure many (if not most) girls do not share my point of view. But really, talking about your watch, your car, or your dad’s company is sincerely unattractive, boring, and a real turn-off. You don’t need to overwhelm a girl with Shakespeare quotes every minute of every day, but it would be nice to know that you actually are acquainted with who Shakespeare is, and that such literary conversations are not to be scratched off the list of things we share.

Something to think about…