The Yellow Wallpaper

Yes, I did go through the effort of figuring out how to add a movie to letterboxd just so I could log this

Neil

my favorite short story deserved better

witchious

I slept through the entire movie twice

thedayofthedot

If you haven't read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story this is based on, I highly suggest it. It's only around 10 pages and is quite a creepy feminist gothic horror. It's on the Gutenberg, here. Jane has post partum depression, but this was back when women were…

rest_in_prose

did they. did they read the short story?

quinn bea 🪐

To recreate a feminist masterpiece about patriarchy sucking the life out of women, and miss the key point almost entirely is quite a feat. Where was the woman behind the wallpaper? The projection of her entrapped self? I guess they tried to get that across in other ways…

Caz Armstrong

Atmospheric; dull; faltering; haunting; moody; plodding; repetitive; unoriginal; well-made.

joshrowley

This is the 2021 film... There seems to be a version every 5 years or so, and probably a dozen over the last few decades. This is the first time that I have ever seen an adaptation. [Edit: ok most are short films, which explains why it was difficult to stretch the…

Lynn Betts

shawty crawling

jo