EWW!
Terrible, terrible, terrible, is all I have to say. I watched this with my mother, a college professor and fellow literary aficionado.I really don't understand people who applaud this movie. Hester Prynne's eyes looked like she was blind, they were so white. It was distracting and very strange. Pearl was just odd, and Roger Chillingworth looked like a mad hatter. Which he is, I suppose, so there's that.Rev. Dimmsdale is rather handsome, but that is not the point!!The camerawork looks as if someone filmed when drunk, it's so cheap.The entire thing looks like some middle-schooler's lame attempt to make a little movie.After reading The Scarlet Letter, I expected--nay, hoped for--an accessible film version of the classic. Disappointment, disappointment, disappointment.Personally, I really enjoyed the Demi Moore adaptation of this novel.