Movie: “The Other Boleyn Girl”

One of my girlfriends received “The Other Boleyn Girl” from Amazon the other day.  So she brought it over and I knitted.  We both knew that the movie was going to be nothing like the book and tried to keep an open mind about it.  But in the end, neither of us were entirely satisfied with the movie.

My main objection to the movie is that it bounced around the plotline a lot.  Sure they kept the focus on what Anne Boleyn was trying to do, but all of the other characters just seemed….like their stories weren’t being told properly.  When you are making a movie, you need to make sure all of the stories come together or else those characters are completely worthless.

I didn’t so much mind that the movie was scarcely historically correct or failed to follow the book.  It impressed me that the girls’ mother actually had more lines that showed her motherly side instead of a hard-edged bitch.  Everyone’s love life just seemed out of control.  It’s like, Mary’s married, now she’s a mistress, now she’s a mom, oh wait, there’s her husband, now she’s living alone and she’s married again to some guy you see on screen a handful of times and it’s never suggested in the movie that there’s a romantic interest.  WTF.  The only way I even made the connection was because I had read the book.  Then with Anne it was even more haphazard.

I’m definitely going to borrow the movie again and try to watch it and take it for what it’s worth.  Because the first time around I couldn’t help but make all of these mental notes about what I didn’t really like about it.