01 Bright Star – Movie
So, I got into Abbie Cornish in one of the most intense, emotionally entangling movies I have ever seen – Candy, in which she starred with Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush. I am one of the few Australian’s who has not seen Kiwi Jane Campion’s The Piano, however it was based on these two ladies that I recently saw the movie Bright Star. The movie focuses upon the relationship between Fanny Brawn (Abbie Cornish) and John Keats, an English poet from the 19th century. I may have possibly quoted Keats during my pony-tailed, 1st year uni attempts to be a philosopger, poet and alcohol fuelled nightclub Casanova but I knew little of him. The movie was great in the way that it enfused the poetry and intensity of Keats’ words with the new passion and love of his relationship with Fanny. It gave an accessibility to prose and poetry that for many is unattainable via the pages of a Penguin book of classics. It was truly remarkable that this man was able to compose the words he did before passing at the age of 25. While we are still at university being taught how to write, this man left a legacy before we even graduated – ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness’.
