Plot Summary: Well I saw just over half the movie, but this is what happened. The movies goes back and forth between England and France during the brutal times of the French Revolution. I think most the action a saw took place in Paris, France. Charles Darnay, a major character in this movie is a tutor and has to travel a lot between France and Paris. Charles is convicted of spying because of this. He gets put on the stand a couple of times.
Charles friend Sydney Carton is in jail, for some reason. I missed that part. Darnay and Carton are both in love with Charles wife, Lucie. Dr. Manette, Lucie father is insane from his stay at the bastille, a prison from there time.
Frances citizens arm themselves for the revolution and start it by the storming of the bastille. Darnay is going to see a friend, and is arrested in France for being an enemy of the state (France).
The same day Dr. Manette uses his influences to free Charles.
The same day Charles get rearrested. At the trial the next day, Charles is convicted and sentenced to death. Carton hears this and immediate want to help Lucie. He uses his contacts to set up a scheme. He gets into the prison and trades spots with Darnay.
Charles and his family safely leave the country and Sydney goes to his death. The events in this story relating to what we were talking about were the storming of the bastille, which was in chapter three, and how the estates changed the way of France. The only character I notice a change in at the end is Carton. I saw the first half hour and he was acting immature and drunk.
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At the end he was responsible and there for Lucie and her family. The peasants went a little overboard with the guillotine and power but they succeeded to change France in the end. I thought this movie was good, at least from what I saw of it. It was historically correct and the costumes look so realistic.
The actors did a great job too. I give it a ten out of ten, and recommend it to anyone who likes movies having to do with history.
