Dominant roles:Jane Eyre&Edward Rochester
There are 4 episodes.
Episode1:
Orphaned as a child, Jane Eyre is brought up first in the cruel and loveless household of her aunt, Mrs Reed, before being sent to Lowood School until the age of 19.
Jane embarks upon a career as a governess, and her first position is at Thornfield Hall, the home of the mysteriously absent Edward Rochester.
Out walking one afternoon, Jane is almost run down by a rider. Startled, the horse falls and throws its rider. Jane helps the dark, enigmatic stranger to his feet and back onto his horse. Only later does she realise that it's Rochester, returned from his travels.
Rochester is quickly impressed by Jane's spirit and is increasingly drawn to her. Jane, in turn, is captivated by Rochester's outspokenness and dangerous edge.
But the dark corridors of Thornfield Hall hold untold secrets and, no matter where she turns, Jane seems to feel the eyes of laundrywoman Grace Poole upon her.
Awoken by a strange laugh one night, Jane follows the noise to Rochester's room, where she discovers his bed on fire and his life in grave danger.
Will she be able to wake him on time? And who is responsible for this murderous act?
Episode 2:
Jane wakes Rochester from his burning bed. She waits in his room, watching through the window as Rochester's lamplight moves toward the North Tower. On his return, Rochester draws Jane close to him.
After the excitement of the night before, Jane rises to find Rochester has left Thornfield without word of when he might return.
When he eventually comes back, he brings with him a group of distinguised guests, including the beautiful and accomplished Blanche Ingram and her imposing and opinionated mother, Lady Ingram.
Below stairs, gossip is rife that Rochester is to be married to Miss Ingram. Jane's disappointment at this news is both raw and visible, especially when Rochester insists Jane attends the evening soirees at every opportunity.
When a mysterious guest turns up uninvited, Rochester is clearly unsettled by the news. That night, the whole house is awoken by blood-curdling screams. Rochester calms the situation, but Jane realises something is badly wrong when she sees a pool of blood dripping from his injured arm.
Rochester asks Jane for assistance, and takes her into the North Tower to tend to Mason who has been violently attacked, as if by a wild animal.
Jane stays with him whilst Rochester fetches the doctor. But she is frightened by loud banging on the other side of the door. Who or what is hidden in the North Tower?
Episode 3:
Jane embarks on a journey to fulfil the dying Mrs Reed's final wish. Once there Jane learns of a secret and a dreadful, vicious lie told for revenge. An uncle, she didn't know existed, had offered to look after her, several years earlier. However, Jane forgives her aunt and after the funeral returns to Thornfield.
There, the rumours of a wedding between Blanche Ingram and Rochester are still rife.
When Rochester presses Jane that she must leave Thornfield, she reveals her strong feelings for him. The charade is over.
Rochester admits he has no intention of marrying Blanche – instead, he's in love with Jane, and proposes marriage to her. Jane can hardly believe it, but once convinced by the strength of Rochester's feelings she accepts his offer.
Two nights before the wedding, Jane has a nightmare and wakes with a start to the terrifying vision of a woman in her bedroom. She wants to believe Rochester's explanation that it was part of her dream – but the results are scarily real. Jane's wedding veil has been ripped in two.
As the wedding day arrives events take a turn for the worse. The wedding is interrupted by a lawyer who reveals some devastating news for Jane. Rochester is already married, and his wife, Bertha, resides in Thornfield's North Tower.
Episode 4:
Having left Thornfield, a heartbroken Jane finds herself alone, penniless and starving on the moors.
Utterly exhausted, she lies down in a final act of surrender to the elements.
However, she's rescued by local clergyman St John Rivers who, together with his sisters, Diana and Mary, nurses her back to health. The family are poor, but intelligent and spirited. Jane forcefully represses all memories of Rochester's desperate attempts to make her stay and resolves to begin a new life as the parish teacher.
A year passes, and Jane's school has improved beyond measure when St John Rivers announces he has been looking into her past. He's discovered she is an heiress. He also learns of her disastrous relationship with Rochester and proposes marriage to Jane and a life of companionship as a missionary.
Torn over her decision, Jane thinks she hears Rochester call out her name and knows she must go back to Thornfield. But what she finds there is shocking – nothing is as it was and, finally, the secrets of the North Tower are laid bare.
在episode 4中，St.John得知了Jane的经历，有了这样一段叙述：
Just over 20 years ago,a poor curate fell in love with a rich man's daughter.They married,
and she was cut off from her family entirely,Within two years,they were both dead.They left
a daughter,and she was cast out onto the very cold charith of an aunt by marriage.Now we come to details.A Mrs.Reed of Gatehead,who kept the orphan 10 years and then sent her to one Lowood School.I calculate she would have been approximately your age.It seems she did very well there,with qualities very similar to your own,and another coincidence,she rose to be a teachers.She left Lowood to become governess to the ward of a Mr.Rochester...this Mr.Rochester's character...but I do know the offered marriage to this young woman,but at the altar she had discovered he had a wife still living,a lunatic.For another quite different
reason,one Mr.Briggs,a solicitor,was seatching for this young lady,but by then she had
disappeared,was never seen again.
这段经历描述了Jane,18年的成长经历，18年中她从未真正肯定过自己。虽然她很坚强，但仍然摆脱不了贫困，矮小，相貌的平庸带给她的不自信。她还没真正意识到Jane Eyre是多么的强大。直到认识了Mr.Rocherstor，她才真正be equal to others,找到了真正的自己。这个独立的自己是何等的强大，这使她分文没有而选择流浪地去为自己独立地生活。而后在Mr.Rochestor召唤Jane的时候，她又可以为了爱回到爱人的身旁。
Jane Eyre的美在于她的独立。她可以迷恋于爱之中，又可以保留自己的空间而真正珍藏爱恋，等待爱的回归。Charlotte Bronte以典雅而高贵的品德，肃静而隐忍的内心，自卑与自信的个性塑造了一个勇敢的Jane。
这个新版本在画面方面处理的还是相当不错的。对于爱情的刻画比较流畅，但还是缺少细腻。总体来说，因为个人比较喜欢英国田园诗般的叙事风格，在情节中又多了几分类似《蝴蝶梦》的中世纪的古板和凋零的疯狂，这样的本子使电影不失丰满而可以着力丰富画面的生动。
我喜欢Jane的提问：How a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly?我想每个女生都有答案～加一句，我一直很喜欢Rochester，喜欢他坚毅的性格和柔软的内心～
看这部片子可真可谓天昏地暗了。近4个小时，我要赶快去呼吸新鲜空气去了～
推荐度：4.5
官网：http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/janeeyre/
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