What a waste of my time!!!

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I watch this fascinating film. How beautiful it is. How great man Oscar Wilde was.In fact, I've always said, that it is very important to know the biography of writers, in order to understand his work. Now ,I realize that it is also crucial. His work "The Picture of Dorian Gray" has left the most beautiful impression on anyone who had read it. I have never heard a bad opinion about that book. I almost read his work "De Profundis, " which is left an even bigger impression on me. Free sentences and philosophical thoughts, thoughts about life, very advanced for that time, a lot of emotion and truth, which is pronounced in this work, have made me his biggest fan. Since the act is written in short forms, in general, could not realize that this is a farewell letter to his young lover, for which it has slaved for two years. I found out tonight,while I am watching the movie about his life. Therefore, I say, it is necessary to know about life as a writer, that would be the right way, understand his work. Now I have to read "De Profundis" again, because otherwise it will be understood in light of new knowledge. Since I am his great literary fan, much easier I submitted a homosexual scene, which is in the movie. Yet he was a great man, sharp of mind and true words, and with his intellect surpassed the former, and I think the present time.

I came into the film with a moderate liking of Wilde. His poetry is good, and his plays are funny. But Stephen Fry adds more personality to the already wit-stuffed words of Wilde, being oftentimes charming, but also painfully affected by the actions of his dearest. The film makes a sure job of introducing the viewer to his works, with the narration dipping in and out of quotes of his, and they are all said in a realistically witty manner. Bosie is fascinating in this film. Just as Fry was born for Wilde, Jude Law fits perfectly for Bosie, who, in an irritating manner, does seem like a siren who lures in Wilde and ultimately destroys him. Even if you don't know the story of Wilde, it's blatant what will happen, because their relationship is cloudy and bipolar right from the start, and yet woefully romantic too. Most of the more fundamental aspects of Wilde life is retold, with his aforementioned works, rise to fame, sexuality, marriage, trial and prison life being painted with the expected poetic licence and adaptation of a biographical film.The aspects where the film loses marks is in the slowness of its pace at times, which, although small, can be affecting. I didn't feel it myself, but there are a fair amount of blank spaces and reflective scenery which weren't needed given the fullness and possibilities of Wilde's brilliant life.

Rarely in Stephen Fry's prolific career, such a tailor-made role for him, and he is the leading actor in this biopic of Oscar Wilde, the 19th century Irish author, poet and playwright, whom he resembles not just in physical appearance, but personality and gift as well.Directed by Brian Gilbert, the follow-up after TOM & VIV (1994), WILDE is a lush period drama, where Fry's representation of Wilde is purely magnificent, sympathetic and pleasing with a tender soul inside his bulky facade, from his principled marriage with Constance (Ehle), the homosexual foray with Robbie Ross (Sheen), to meet the love of his life Bosie Douglas (Law), a doted aristocrat whose stunning pulchritude and youthfulness toxic-ally enchants Wilde for the rest of his life, till his downfall in imprison after losing the libel case and the subsequent trial of sodomy and gross indecency prosecuted by Marquess of Queensberry (Wilkinson), the abominable father of Bosie. Like the warm voice-over of Wilde's own short story THE SELFISH GIANT whenever the story draws in with Oscar's interactions with his two young sons, Wilde is the giant, who is destined to suffer from the wounds of love, again, Fry's performance is unarguably the film's strongest suit, notably his speech about "the unspeakable love" during the court scenes.Oscar Wilde's astonishing talent and homosexuality are two sides of his personae, as one might expect, the film follows suit in exploring the more sensational latter, while the former can only be glanced through his witty loquaciousness and the aforementioned court speech, truly, the gay melodrama is what audience ask for, only if we could also given some leeway to enter his kingdom as a writer. Then the drama, Bosie is viewed as a capricious, needy, ungrateful and selfish good-for-nothing, who is the undoing of Oscar Wilde's tragedy, ended with an early death in destitute. There is unequalled devotion between them, which Wilde is not too blind to notice, but his naivety, a common characteristic among great artists, convinces him that Bosie is a spoilt boy who needs love wantonly and inordinately, and he is willing to do whatever he asks, and eventually comes down from his high horse and becomes a convenient lever utilised in the detrimental father-son retaliation between Bosie and his father. Fry gives a sympathetic performance, but for Wilde, we can only assume that he has only himself to blame, meanwhile, the film makes Robbie, his sole loyal friend in his last days, watch the doom befalls on the one he loves, they would make a much better match, only if Wilde could be more sensible in his mind (takes the gargoyle- looking over the pretty boy), that's the typical gambit for a melodrama, as if that happens so common in real life.Jennifer Ehle, who REALLY should play Meryl Streep in a biopic, is the benevolent but tormented wife who marries a closeted gay man, but instead of hatred and complaint, her support of Wilde, defiance against the convention, even in his lowest moment is a shining beacon in this biopic, Ehle elicits amazing nuance in it. This is the very first role introduces Jude Law into the international cinema, where his Adonis attractiveness would peak two years later in Anthony Minghella's THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999, 8/10), in WILDE, he is less refined but incredibly right up Bosie's rally, an amoral, wayward snob, a self-seeker banks on his vainglory, so is Wilkinson as his father, a showstopper with his boorish umbrage, like father, like son, indeed, one might protest the upper society doesn't get a fair treatment in the movie, but de facto, they are the last bunch on earth who needs a sentimentally sympathetic response from the mass, so, whatever, R.I.P. Mr. Wilde.

The Irish writer Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry) returns to London from America and gets married with Constance Lloyd Wilde (Jennifer Ehle) in the Victorian England. They have two children, Cyril and Vyvyan, and he makes lots of money with his successful plays. He gets close to the young Robbie Ross (Michael Sheen) and "leaves the closet", assuming his homosexuality and having brief affairs with youths. When he meets the corrupt Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas (Jude Law), he falls in love for the young man; but Bosie's father goes to the court accusing the writer "posing sodomite" and Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor. His health is affected by the unhealthy conditions in prison and he has a short life in Paris after being discharged from the imprisonment. "Wilde" discloses the faithful biography of the Irish writer Oscar, with great and bold performances, witty dialogs and a beautiful reconstitution of the life in the Victorian period. My only remark is the excessive and repetitive homosexual scenes with the visible intention of pleasing the gay communities, but totally unnecessary to the context of the story. The running time of 118 minutes is too long and boring but could be shorter with the edition of the foregoing sequences. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Wilde"