A naive young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever... present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.
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Dorian Gray Oliver Parker's walk on the Wilde side is a crisp retelling of the tale of roister- doisterers undone by the ravages of time
Oscar Wilde's best-loved bachelor has not been well served by cinema. Albert Lewin's 1945 adaptation The Picture of Dorian Gray won awards for its memorable make-up but today it may as well be an artefact from the Victorian era in which the original novella was written. Worse was to follow. In 1983, Tony (The Burning) Maylam's TV version 'The Sins Of Dorian Gray' turned Dorian into Dora, missing the homoerotic subtext ever so slightly.
The ageless aristo popped up again in 2003's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a film so bad it made Sea...
i will say the beginning of this movie was very boring and way to many weird sex scenes,, but the second half was quite interesting and got better.. wasnt the best movie i watched but interesting story .. 7/10
I think it was an alright movie. I mean, nothing extraordinary but not a total failure either. The acting seemed a bit off sometimes and some scenes were just jumping in and out of the screen with no transition whatsoever but the atmosphere of the movie was creepy. So I guess they succeeded in some way to show what we needed to see and feel. Besides, even though the movie was short, you could see the evolution in Dorian's caracter. However, there are a lot of unnecessary sex scenes.. 7/10
