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Jane (Sally Hawkins) is a fragile, but, at the same time, an irrepressibly cheerful woman who hears voices and has paranoid fantasies. On top of this, the symptoms of schizophrenia are exacerbated by her disgusting, selfish family. Jane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 20, after her fiancé left her at the altar. After spending most of her life in a psychiatric hospital where shock therapy was used, Jane decides to stop taking medications. While this means she begins to see giant spiders crawling all over the place and begins to tear off tiny strips of wallpaper, Jane also feels more alive and energized. One day, Jane meets an aspiring musician Mike (David Thewlis), who also has serious mental problems. Together they have fun and learn about life in their own way, touchingly awkwardly, but with an huge supply of perseverance and confidence in happiness. Curious situations replace each other, and biting remarks additionally enhance the comic effect. Nevertheless, this does not at all interfere with the fact that in some places, both lyrical and dramatic notes break through. The loud name Eternal Beauty is easy to consider as another author's joke, especially since in one of the episodes on the screen of the television receiver, which the characters are watching, there are shots of advertising for the cream of the Eternal Beauty brand, which promises to smooth out age wrinkles, give the skin a healthy shine, and so on. We are so used to such things that we have do not notice the blatant vulgarization of lofty matters. With a smile, the director-scriptwriter hints to the audience that the real eternal beauty is different – it lies in the ability of individuals to believe in beauty and not subject to the destructive effects of time. Of course, Jane should not come to terms with betrayal, but the fact that the heroine experienced love partly expiates the subsequent disappointment.

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Dracula is a drama-horror three episodes TV-show developed by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker's Dracula has been interpreted and filmed countless times, so in the 2020 version of Dracula, showrunners rewrote the famous story and embellished it with unprecedented intrigue. The show features familiar details from a vampire romance, to which new plot twists have been added. The creators' desire to stick to the main accents from the original plot and at the same time build a completely different story is noticeable from the first minutes of the series. The first episode begins with a confession of a lawyer named Jonathan, who restores his memories thanks to Sister Agatha. He tries to remember how he managed to escape from the castle of Count Dracula, where the lawyer turned from a guest into an unfortunate prisoner. At first, the fortress owner did not pose a danger, looking like only an older man, but over time, the nobleman became younger, and Jonathan inexplicably weakened. In the incident, Sister Agatha finds interesting details of Jonathan's story. Humor is presented in each episode, recalling the work style of showrunners who have their own view of the classics' interpretation. In the series Dracula, unexpected plot twists turn the course of events upside down, but Dracula has few details from the horror. In some scenes, the makeup looks theatrical and does not reach the point of scaring the viewer.

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