Diary entries forThe Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
This was pretty boring tbh. I liked the outfits and cinematography but the movie was boring. I'm guessing the ending was supposed to be sad but I was too underwhelmed to even find it sad. The acting was good. I felt bad for Winona's character. Movie was still worth a watch but I definitely won't rewatch it.
The Age of Innocence
❝She remained in his memory simply as the most plaintive and poignant of a line of ghosts.❞ · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · Hats off to Martin Scorsese; for someone most famous for gritty gangster films, he sure knows how to make a heart-wrenching romance. The film is very faithful to the book, which I always appreciate because it's certainly not easy to translate the source material into another form of media. In my opinion, the pace was very slow to start off with, but really picked up about a third into the film all the way until the end. As a modern watcher it was hard to see the characters bound by the customs and rules of 19th/20th century America; to me the solution to everyone's troubles seemed so simple, but I guess easy solutions wouldn't make for a riveting story. The ending was simultaneously heartbreaking and frustrating, and I shed a few tears for what could have been. I absolutely loved the costumes and sets. They were historically accurate and so detailed; one eye was constantly admiring the ladies' dresses and the interior design of the upper class houses. Despite the bright, jewel-toned palette, the colour grading of the film was surprisingly dim and almost drab, which was interesting. The use of flowers was also very clever: yellow roses sent from Newland to Ellen unfortunately foreshadowed the end of their relationship, while the lilies he sent May symbolised her supposed purity but also his sorrow, first for having to marry her, then foreshadowing again her death. I thought the soundtrack was beautiful and well-chosen, with some particularly gorgeous classical pieces used. The main leads were mostly excellent. Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer had so much chemistry together, and Winona Ryder as May was a little stiff at first, but gradually warmed to her role, to the point where my blood boiled after she told Newland what she had done towards the end. The rest of the cast was good, but no-one really stood out (or were overshadowed by the others). The Age of Innocence was a stunning watch, and definitely one of Scorsese's underrated works.
The Age of Innocence
Damn. What a great fucking movie. Kinda hilarious to see the stoic genre of period yearning romance taken on, but shot and edited so similarly to GOODFELLAS. Obvious credit due to Schoonmaker and Ballhaus for some of that. Pfeiffer never gets enough credit as an actor, her charisma and beauty seem to distract so many from the fact that she’s also a damn goodactor. Marty lets her shine here, and she more than holds her own against DDL, who puts in a characteristically brilliant performance. Great, great movie.
The Age of Innocence
I'd marry Winona Ryder in a heartbeat ROBERT SEAN LEONARD IN THIS ?!?!?!
The Age of Innocence
“You’ll catch your death!” “Of course.” But then he realized. I am dead. I’ve been dead for months. Woah. Guess I’m just a sucker for films about quiet passions, desperate loves, wanting someone so bad you feel you might break because of it. Scorsese shines as a director here, as least for me, this is the most obviously emotive and...feeling film I’ve seen from him. Usually his films focus on violence, corruption of the soul—greed and its consequences. But this was a delightful change of pace. Michelle and Daniel...I felt It. They’re desire and love for one another was so real and palpable…God, this is the second movie in two days where the ending has left me longing for closure, some happiness and being left wanting (the other was Paris, Texas) and I’m tired of being denied! I just wanted one scene of them seeing each other again...but that’s not how the story, or how life, goes. Beautiful.
The Age of Innocence
Este año me animé a leer Emma de Jane Austen por lo que es inevitable que haga ciertas comparaciones durante esta review. Cuando revise la filmografía de Martin para el reto de este año, ver esta película dentro de su carrera me hizo picar la curiosidad porque no es el cine que haría comúnmente Martin (al menos no para alguien que ubica lo más popular). Y revisando más acerca de sus intenciones sobre la realización de esta película es increíble como llega a abordar una violencia diferente a la física: emocional y psicológica. El propio Scorsese declaró que esta película puede ser igual de violenta que el balazo que recibió el personaje de Joe Pesci en Goodfellas y creo que estoy de acuerdo con ello. La gente adinerada de la época no tenía nada más interesante que hacer de sus vidas que jugar a las apariencias y toda su vida hacerla al rededor de una reputación falsa frente a la sociedad. Regresando a la comparación con Emma, vemos algo que parece diferente: una comedia de una joven casamentera que termina en un enrollo pero incluso en ambas historias comparten algo y es sus protagonistas quienes tienen un conflicto enrollo sus sentimientos y las apariencias. Mientras Emma apoya este sistema de casar a la gente por conveniencias sociales, ella en su corazón rompe con ese lineamiento. Eso también es lo que padece Newland (Daniel Day-Lewis), pues entiende cómo es el sistema en el que vive pero al querer salirse de él y escuchar su corazón termina preso de esa misma sociedad. Lo que me hace interesante es cómo esta película es narrada como si un documental de la vida salvaje se tratase y como es dedicado en hacer énfasis en los detalles porque justamente hasta lo más insignificante era importante en esta sociedad. Casi viendo la mitad de sus películas y sigo sin poder decir que Scorsese tiene una película mala. The Age of Innocence es una tarjeta de presentación para quien dice en su ignorancia que Scorsese solo sabe hacer cine de gánsters. ——— 12/143 RETO 2026 Paul Thomas Anderson (2/10) Stanley Kubrick (2/13) 🎞️Martin Scorsese (6/26) Christopher Nolan (0/12) Ridley Scott (2/29) Alfred Hitchcock (0/52)
The Age of Innocence
So much angst and longing and conflicting feelings and beautiful Daniel Day-Lewis, what's not to like (3.75)
The Age of Innocence
If I had a nickel for every time I had seen a period piece in which Daniel Day-Lewis has a strained romantic involvement with Winona Ryder I would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
The Age of Innocence
Beautiful looking movie set way back in the day. Quite a degradation of high society now. Nice score as well. Don’t know if this is a hot take or not but Winona was straight mogging Michelle. Not sure what my boy DDL was seeing lmao. Very slow movie. Very very slow. I still enjoyed it though. 7.2
