Jane Eyre: See it again for the first time

One hundred and sixty-four years after Charlotte Bronte wrote her powerful Goth novel about a young woman whose personal strength and unshakable moral code allows her to prevail against the harshest existence, the story is playing out again. And though you may have read the book and seen previous movie adaptations, don't miss this new version staring Mia Wasikowska.

How drab and forbidding her surroundings are. Even the grand home from which she's banished is hardly bright and cheerful. When she walks outdoors, her path is a maze between stone walls and high shrubbery. Is there any hope for this young women?

Jane Eyre is what we call today a coming-of-age story and a love story. A bleak one. But Michael Fassbender's Mr. Rochester is a sympathetic soul.

Every one of the character's in this heart-rending drama is a victim of a social system that fails all but the few at the top of the ladder. Sound familiar?

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