Dickinson on Apple TV+
I recently bought a new iPhone and as a perk received a free a one year subscription to Apple TV+.on all my devices.
I have just started watching Dickinson. It is an irreverent telling of Emily Dickinson's life in Amherst and begins when she is about 18. The film cinematography is beautiful. What is deeply intriguing is that Emily and her peers suffer the constraints of 19th century social norms but see the world, most especially Emily, through modern eyes and often use modern language to describe their feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the world around them. It is often laugh out loud funny. The actress who plays Emily, Hailee Steinfeld, is beautiful and seems the perfect Emily. She is the Emily we might have always wished the real Emily to be.
Purest might object to the vast license that has been taken with the Emily's character, but I think it is wonderful.
