PRIDE and PREDJUDICE ***** Maybe its not all that the 300 minute version was, but that's a good thing- still true to a great story - and much easier to enjoy( in one sitting).
As a great piece of literature, it reminds us, like Solzenitzens first words to the West of one key kink in the human condition . "Mum and Dad have their limitations" . BUT weren't mum and dad oh so good in the picture !

By agnowledging our parents WEAKNESSes we learn to agnowledge our own
Was for example Dad's submission to mum a form of weakness,or a response that was rare and therefore noted on film. Was he stronger than he appeared at first glance? Will weaknesses in our/your family destroy it ? Of course not - facing weakness is the key to finding love . M&D loved each other- and that love made their children KNOW love.


Solzetnisens point is a very serious one - we can by thinking like children, miss the point and fall lower than even our parents in the parenting game. As normal children we can so easily fall for that appealing temptation that we know a better around their recipe for a happy home ( family society etc ) . We sneer - becoming the new snobs to a new generation of children.

ABCTV
I write this mainly because I wish the ABCTV producers would grow up and stop feeding us expensive overseas PERIOD PIECE trash by modern day snobs , who clearly don't know any better about the best of the past .

On PERIOD PIECES. what don't our ageing reactionary media people not understand that they produce such drivel ? Why did Cate Blanchett get herself into that dark piece of modern snobbery that is an Ideal Husband 1999. Too many young Australians do not know what snobbery is and when they are guilty of it . Does Cate too not recognise what makes for good literature? she is not alone in the modern world of post modern panderers to the superficial.

REACTIONARIES- How predictable and backward they are!
It was remarked of that prominent stirrer Bernard Shaw that "he fell off his perch" when he realised, after making a living as a reactionary .that Plato's society was infact more dynamic and interesting than his own ,in many many ways.( he got to the top of the tree and surveyed the countryside objectively?
Our modern ageing reactionaries need to stop revisiting the past with their eyes over their reading glasses. Then they might stop making such trash as An ideal husband and not have kept us so long waiting for good literature .Keep up the good work and we'll keep giving you some !