“Wuthering Heights” Adaptation Shocks Audiences with Unprecedented Adult Scene—You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!

People who have seen the sneak preview have slammed the film for being “tonally abrasive”

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World of Reel, a platform covering the film industry, reported that the audience displayed a “visible restlessness” during the viewing.

It quoted a critic describing it (the film) as “aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive,” claiming that it leans “hard into Fennell’s now-familiar brand of stylized depravity.”

“It’s a deliberately unromantic take on (Emily) Brontë’s novel,” the critic complained, “of emotional nuance and full of salacious detours that serve shock value. 

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“[It is] far more explicit than any previous adaptation of this material,” they said of the film that allegedly starts “with a public hanging,” and “quickly descends into grotesque absurdity.”

Fans threatened the producer for casting Margot Robbie in the film

The verbal thrashing extended to the producer’s choice of actors, with another attendee pointing out that while Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie played Heathcliff and Cathy earnestly and have “great chemistry,” their characters were “so cold and unlikable that even strong acting can’t create a point of connection.”

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