Yuling Chen

Yuling Chen

artist, writer, blogger, filmmaker, maker, etc.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering heights is a book I couldn’t finish. The pure literacy of the tome proves to be too much a jackal. I saw the movie in 2026 or 2025. One scene of which Cathy tried to self harm or used a sharp object to pushed into her palm shocked me as obscene. It seemed to suggest a kind of dirty mind that she had had, a type of mental illness, of disability. I found it quite alarming. Her mental state seemed to be declining as the movie progressed. The marriage was stifling. The passion and wilderness she harboured for heathcliff were confronted with the domesticity of their lives making it look almost too quaint and fake. I didn’t think it had anything to do with the book itself taking extremes to extremes’ measures. The moor was an ever present background information. Cathy couldn’t live without heathcliff. She lacked a sort of agency women had. She seemed to be abused by her love. Her childhood in the movie also looked suspectable to the nature of realities, its brutal harshness beaten right on her faces. Would this movie win awards? Etc. 

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