“Wuthering Heights” proves that anti-intellectualism is winning, and critical thinking gets punished

Another questionable aspect of Edgar being cast as POC is that he is a man that Cathy is explicitly NOT attracted to which again could be a coincidence but tastes a little sour in combination with Heathcliff’s white washing

Glad this is so blunt I’m so sick of everyone giving Emerald the benefit of the doubt. She’s a grown woman she knows what she is doing

It’s like when people say in reference to art/entertainment “I don’t want to think!”. You don’t want to think!!!! What the fuck??

Good argument, especially the end. Can’t we have an adaptation that ISN’T the literalization of a 14-yr old’s first impressions? What about the grownups?

With the raceswap of Heathcliff and Edgar, knowing that this whole movie was "Emerald's interpretation 🥺🥺," and that they're selling this as being explicitly a love story, it really does feel like Emerald Fennel cannot see a man of color as being a love interest at all, and that is why she changed Edgar and Heathcliff's races

Something about turning the main POC into a white man and then turning the white characters that could be seen as "villainous" towards the "main love story" into POC just makes it feel insidious On Purpose. Like it's so backhanded and vile?? Insane

i’ve been telling everyone that the movie is horny without being sexy and when it tries to be sexy it’s so forced that it just made me feel awkward while watching

so frustrating to have legitimate points about how a text with actual, meaningful points about how racist othering leads to cycles of abuse be dismissed with “Oh, you must hate women”. In 2026!!! People hold that take in 2026!!!

1:11:07 this plays into what I frequently hear from the anti-intellectualism crowd regarding abusive relationships as "just kink and you are too vanilla to understand it"

I knew about Fennell's posh background and saw it in the subtext of "Saltburn". An evil middle class man destroys a open, quirky, aristocratic family from a warped sense of envy. The movie was completely drenched in upper-class anxieties about class. Off topic, the fact that Fennell didn't see Saltburn's parallels to "The Talented Mr. Ripley" shows her to be in a very weird bubble film-making wise. I think she considers herself to be a rebel when she's just out of touch.

When someone says "its not that deep" the response is always "No, YOU'RE just not that deep. You are shallow and like vapid fluff since you lack critical thinking"

Emerald Fennell's worldview is so pathologically classist/racist, she was compelled to make a Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff is white and nice, and the only working class character is basically evil (and conspicuously *not* white). I'm glad you drew attention to this, because I feel like it's getting missed in a lot of reviews due to the focus on Heathcliff specifically and the movie's overall badness. Like, I try not to overly moralize people's tastes in fiction like this, but jfc. Sometimes a spade's a spade.

This is the best critic of Fennel and this sad excuse of a movie i came across on Youtube. Thank you for reminding some folks that ignoring and erasing racism is in fact, racism.

16:25 the way Lockwood, a rich guy from London sees Heathcliff and instantly the first thing he notices is "oh, he's dark! insert slur" If he was "tan", it wouldn't have been *the first thing he notices.* He would think "oh this brooding, tall guy who dresses this way and also has a tan."

Forgive me for commenting again, but I feel like a lot of people really pick and choose with Isabella, they fail to understand and feel for her and her escape simply because we don’t see it as much as we did with everyone else.. but it’s it SO.. so prominent.. It is a massive credit to her character that she is one of the only people in the entire book with the willpower to actually leave… I’m right to say that she "pokes the bear".. she uses Catherine’s name like a weapon because it’s the only thing she has left to hurt him with.. but by that point, she is a woman fighting for her life in a house of literal Gothic horror… her escape is a gritty, unromanticized moment of survival.. Brontë describes her running through the snow, her face cut, her silk dress "all buffered" and ruined… it’s the total destruction of the "Linton lady" image, replaced by a survivor’s grit… before she disappears, she has that final, scathing interaction with Nelly where she laughs at the idea of ever returning… she has finally seen the "truth" that Catherine and Edgar tried to tell her, but she had to pay for that knowledge in blood… almost every other character is trapped by the geography of the moors.. they go from the Heights to the Grange and back again… Isabella is the only one who breaks the gravity of the setting and starts a new life in the south, even if it’s short-lived… While her "poking" Heathcliff about Catherine was definitely a dangerous move, it was her way of reclaiming her voice.. she refused to be the silent, "slavish" victim Heathcliff wanted her to be… (Forgive me for yelling again.. I needed my peace.. 🫶🏼😔)

openly excusing your use of a white actor over a poc actor by saying it's your teenage interpretation is absolutely a self-report.

Okay I'm gonna have a rant here because I haven't seen the movie and I won't but I wish more people talked about how detrimental media that portrays abuse in a "dark romance" lenses can be. They actually desensitizing society's view on abusive relationships and make harder for actual victims of abuse to come out. Like no ma'am I'm not a prude, I'm a victim of abuse that minimized said abuse because of all the questionable "romance" books I read. If I had never read those books or consumed that media, I would have never thought that it was something that can and will happen in a relationship. Actual abuse victims are not there to be willingly participants and have a blast/get off by being dehumanized. Do you know what I actually thought while my ex partner was being abusive? "I'm going to die, he's going to hit me and I'm going to die and my parents won't be able to deal with it and my dog will never see me again". I wasn't out there smiling and sitting on the floor with a collar and treating myself like a dog, I was begging whatever god was out there to let me live. I'm so tired, stop fucking showing abuse as this dark romance lenses when it's singlehandedly one of the most horrifying and traumatizing event in someone's life. I can never be with a man, I can never have sex again and I can never have a meaningful relationship again all because of one horrible person. Abuse should never be misconstruded as a consensual relationship or a kink. It's ABUSE.

The humor of Wuthering Heights is the horror and melodrama of the characters. She shows the spectrum of chaotic and hypocritical crashouts that is lowkey a commentary on the gendered dynamics of Victorian England (and her English readers would’ve picked up on that thread). She shows us how these rigid class structures, racial hierarchies, and gender politics try and fail to control one’s nature (both the nature within us and beyond us). She also shows how multigenerational trauma both haunts us and can heal us; Bronte is both horrifyingly humorous, imperfectly human, and painfully hopeful. It is the rage against the dying of the light (and the wilds of the moors). Pathos in EXCESS! Also, WH is considered THE greatest gothic novel in the English language . . . and this is what the director has to show for it? Also, a good mantra from an afrofeminist: Feminism isn’t about excusing women’s wrongs (or minimizing their rights), feminism is understanding how we all navigate and struggle under a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. That system informs and infects our self-making (identity) and our world-making (system of reality) and you actively have to manifest creative, political, and ecological ways and wonders to challenge that system in your everyday art and actions.

The tendency of white Hollywood to constantly sanitize / dumb down piping hot social commentary/critique/satire novels and fiction to "jez romance novels lel it's not that deep" just because their authors were female should be studied.

I have never seen one of your videos before but I'm 20 minutes into this one and i am so fucking obsessed with how immediately and frankly you confront ppl who refuse to think critically about anything . Thank u for being as fed up as i am