Alias Grace
Alias Grace - television miniseries Directed by Mary Harron " If we were all on a trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged." Recently I have acquired an affinity for period flicks on Netflix, mostly adaptations of classics. Compared to reading, imagination is restricted but it is easier to get a hang of dressing styles, customs and life during that period of time., Mostly it was about beautiful ladies in heavy dresses doing silly things in search of suitors. Then I came across Alias Grace, an adaptation of a book in the same name by Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors. I love her soulful, philosophical narrative and sentences that sink into the depths of your heart. Grace Marks, an Irish immigrant in Canada was convicted for a gruesome twin murder of her master Mr. Kinnear and his housekeeper and mistress, Nancy Montgomery in 1843. A beautiful teenager at that time,...