REBECCA- looking back, looking again.
The first time I read Rebecca I fell in love with the book. The haunting, sometimes thrilling often heart wrenching novel by Daphne du maurier made me an instant fan of the author and I have ever since recommended the book to many people wanting a good book to read. However the other day I saw a cinematic adaptation of the movie and for the first time I saw the story in a completely different light. While the novel is an extremely well written and intelligent spin on traditional ghost stories and blue beard room tales of dead ex wives, the film in its effort to stay true to the book drags endlessly. Perhaps we have grown up on a diet of high adrenaline thrillers where the camera twitches endlessly or horror films where dead people actually reappear to haunt the living. But there in lies the brilliance of Rebecca. She speaks no lines, she never makes any ghoulish appearances and yet in her absence she is omniscient, ever present and omni potent. Du Maurier through some very cleve