Gwenyth Paltrow and Daniel Craig star in the well-acted but ultimately flat
Sylvia, a film about the life of poets
Sylvia Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes.
The movie, like so many of these stories about poets, encapsulates much of Sylvia''s lifetime, starting off when she is in school - where she meets her husband, of course - and how she struggles through life with both depression and the inability to get her poetry noticed. Under the shadow of her successful husband, she goes through life always feeling second - because his poetry is always regarded highly, and she oftentimes suspects him of cheating on her. Of course, she eventually does become famous; why else would this movie get made about her?
My biggest complaint with Sylvia is that it is no different from the many other films about similar people in the past. Not to take away from their achievements in life, but most stories about poets or artists are pretty similar; they meet their significant other at an early age, have some marital problems, and then die either via suicide or some disease. While each person is their own, as movies go, they all run pretty much the same, and after a while you have to wonder why studios keep pumping out films like these. It is not that they are bad, but that they just aren''t overly great, either.