I thought this would be rough going in some respects (as well as sad) and it is, at times. However it's a fairly good depiction of a talented poet such as Sylvia Plath who has this push-and-pull struggle to both create and destroy in her art and her life; ultimately you are given the idea that she never felt comfortable with life itself and how life ought to feel for her. The film also lets you see that Plath was driven to write and sought acceptance (more than I previously thought). While I'd read her book "The Bell Jar" I didn't know, too, that she was as accomplished as she was (a Fullbright scholar and such).
Gwyneth Paltrow does a good job of portraying Plath, and Daniel Craig is decent as Ted Hughes. The film prompted me to go out and do some research on Plath & Hughes, and it seems Hughes lived to regret being such a cad to her. He did work to keep Plath's poetry alive after her death as he compiled books of her poetry that were published in subsequent years.
All in all it was worthwhile, i think, to make this film to give people an idea of this renown woman poet's life and art.
Gwyneth Paltrow does a good job of portraying Plath, and Daniel Craig is decent as Ted Hughes. The film prompted me to go out and do some research on Plath & Hughes, and it seems Hughes lived to regret being such a cad to her. He did work to keep Plath's poetry alive after her death as he compiled books of her poetry that were published in subsequent years.
All in all it was worthwhile, i think, to make this film to give people an idea of this renown woman poet's life and art.