![]() Anne Elliot isn’t Phoebe Waller-Bridge - what was tremendously enjoyable yet hard-hitting in the original Fleabag isn’t congruent with themes and characters of Persuasion. We’re friends.” If this was an attempt of being funny, tongue-in-cheek, let’s just say it was a disaster. ![]() The dialogues are atrocious and even stilted at points-perhaps the worst being, “We’re worse than exes, now. Dakota Johnson plays the Fleabag-erized role of Anne, where she gives annoyed and sassy looks at the camera and holds a stuffed rabbit (I’m assuming it is dearly departed because the rabbit didn’t move throughout the film). ![]() As what seems like a throwaway explanation for the title, she bellows into her pillow at the beginning of the film that she was persuaded to leave him, as he did not possess much wealth. The mature and quiet Anne Elliot who masks the sea of suffering within her is now a snarky, wine-drinking woman, complaining and crying for her ‘ex’ Frederick Wentworth. ![]()
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