"Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. This weekend, we get ours: Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights," quotation marks hers, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as a version of Cathy and Heathcliff who love to hide raw eggs in each other's beds as kink. The movie has been the subject of all sorts of discourse for what feels like years, ranging from its casting (can Robbie, 35, play a teen?) to its racial politics (" Is Heathcliff white?")"
"I approached a polite man named Jared, 27, who read the book a year ago in anticipation of the film but was primarily seeing it because of his mother. "She got me into it. She's a big fan of the book, but she refuses to see this, because she doesn't think this is accurate. She thinks this is the biggest travesty of all time." He paused. "That's her opinion." His opinion is that, on a scale from one to ten, the book was "at least a seven.""
Emerald Fennell directed a provocative reimagining of Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The film inserts explicit and transgressive elements, including sexualized kinks, bedrooms with latex resembling human skin, and on-the-moors masturbation alongside a contemporary soundtrack. Casting choices and racial questions about Heathcliff intensified debate, as did Robbie's age relative to the character. Opening-day theaters across New York showed mixed audiences—solo viewers, couples, and groups—with varied reactions from curiosity to offense. Some longtime fans refused to see the film, while other viewers retained high regard for the original novel despite reservations about the adaptation.
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