Screenwriter Moira Buffini has streamlined Brontë’s plot and rearranged the order in which some of the events are told. It is a successful adaptation, but, what is more important, it is also a successful film. This, the latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s passionate, affecting novel about a young governess, does just that. With each new adaptation filmmakers can only strive to present their own vision of the story and characters, and hopefully their perspective will capture the spirit of the novel as well as draw out and illuminate certain themes or aspects of the book. The great novels of the nineteenth century, like the plays of Shakespeare, are great living creatures, so full of vitality and depth that no adaptation can ever contain the whole of one. There is no definitive film version of Jane Eyre and there never will be.
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