The beauty of old english movies…

I really want here to introduce you an English movie I saw yesterday night: it’s called “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. It was produced on 1945: I know the year is a bit frightened because you all think black & white movie, no interesting music, unknown actors and a very strange way to dress… But the date should tell you that when a movie is old, it can’t be attractive for the eye, but mostly for the ears… I just mean that elder is the movie, more interesting are their dialogues. I hope i’m not scaring you! I know it is strange, but if you want to watch this incredible movie, you should be very concentrated…

The story happens in London in 1866: a rich and seductive young man called Dorian Gray wants a well-known painter to make a portrait of himself. An old painter’s friend who is there when the picture has just been finished, tells Dorian that the picture is wonderful because of his youth. He

told him that his youth is the only good quality he has but it’s ephemeral. So the young man makes a secret wish: he gives his soul to the evil instead of keeping his youth for the rest of his life. This wish creates a strange relationship between him and the picture: as soon as he pronounced the magic formula, the picture becomes his soul and it starts to change as Dorian Gray goes along his luxury life…

This movie makes us thinking about the personality of young people, their hope and their will in a the upper class in London: women, drugs and pleasure were and are always present in minds.

I hope that will be enough to motivate yourselves to watch it!

Thanks.