The Tessa-Hardin relationship is stormy, facilitated by the cruelty of their "friends." Instead of courting one another, the two characters are courting disaster.Ī weakness of the film is that Tessa and Hardin were students who hardly ever seemed to study. By contrast, it is a veritable race to a full-blown, live-in relationship in "After" with Tessa instantly dumping her old beau Noah and moving in with Hardin.
Tessa and Hardin see themselves refracted through the lens of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice." But they never seem to grasp how Austen spent the entire novel in developing the courtship before Darcy and Elizabeth finally declare their love. Reviewed by lavatch 5 / 10 "Just Go Slow"Īt a crucial moment in "After," Tessa Hardin makes a request of Hardin Scott: "Just go slow." But it turns out that the two characters do the exact opposite in their whirlwind and tumultuous relationship.īased on the Anne Todd novel of the same name, which has been advertised as "1 billion reads," "After" is self-referential film to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The Austen novel is mentioned frequently and is the subject of a class assignment of Tessa and Hardin in a university English literature course.
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