Films

Vanity Fair Vanity—definitely my favorite sin!---Satan, “Devil’s Advocate” She walked in beauty! Belittling the treacherous and the distasteful, she emerged like a flawless piece of jewelry that glows even in darkness. However, what sustained her charm was nothing but vanity—a sin favored by Devil and regretted by God—whose lustrous appearances belay the very weakness of human being. The human weakness of vanity had led her to fame and famine, to money and misery, to glory and gloomy. An orphan of low birth, she fought to “marry upward” to join the London society, where her wits and talents fit perfectly but her identity did not. The result was a long struggle between the body and the soul. She knew she had to give up her life and eventually her love to reach the impossible, which was to be accepted by the rich and to live like one. Being a desirable woman, she held more cards than others because there would always be a backdoor opened by greedy and sensational men. All she had to do w...