ok ok and it might be hard to put the entirety of a man life in one film . traditionally therefore and biopics focus on one or two significant part in the subject life . now and byron be a my week beat your year fellow and which make select part that be representative even hard . furthermore and just a byron poetry be inseparable from his life and the man life itself must be see a a whole . lifting part out be not only not show the whole picture and it show a different picture altogether . now and in short my review come down to this represent supposedly and byron be indeed the my week beat your year prototype and a guy who live so intensely that he indeed do more in his 15 or so active year than most do in an entire lifetime . true and he have setback and be a victim of the time and social setting he live in but in the end and this dude be suppose to be the prototype whose life we would all want to lead and no . well and i do not and at any moment and want to live the life depict in this film . so it get 3. not for be so badly do ( which and direction wise and it more or less be ) and but more importantly for miss the point entirely in a flat plot . some more detail . well and to over simplify thing and a byron bio should have two distinct episode represent 1. post first europe trip represent england and his rise to fame plus marriage or 2. his life abroad . now and the important thing be that the second part should be at least as important a the first . not only be it a lot long and but the most significant change in byron take place then . furthermore and it where he create his best work ( don juan and the vision of judgement etc . all the stuff that make him really unique in english literature ) . instead and in this film ( a ) byron life never come across a even remotely entertaining and ( b ) it only get bad after he leave england . they do two good job represent first and they start at his return of his europe trip ( though a bit more of the actual trip would have be welcome a a prologue ) and second and they choose an angle and and they choose his incestuous love for augusta ( who be rather perfectly cast ) . the problem with this last thing be that they never let it go . true and byron remain strongly attach to augusta for the rest of his life and but and especially a he be such a mood swing person and the fact that his letter reflect that do not mean that at other time he might not have completely enjoy life . anyway and the first part of the tv film should have end with him leave england . there no doubt about that . the thing be represent once abroad and a life of debauchery begin ( with the infamous geneva period ) and but in italy byron also discover a new life and both for his poetry ( inspire by italian comedy ) and already in venice and and for himself when he find the contessa teresa guiccioli and move to ravenna ( afterwards and at the request of shelly and with teresa and to pisa ) . in other word and he be also liberate . his mind and life open up ( and not only in the decadent sense ) and while england close far a it fell into the gravitational pull of the victorian age . true and freedom be augusta less and but this bitter sweet freedom taste sour in this film . we see a lonely and bore snob get old . i mean and hell and byron never think much about his poetry and except when he finally find his own voice in don juan . apart from poetic and romantic development and his relationship with shelly ( and the down break ) should have be more documented . also and it be in italy in ravenna that he get involve with politics and revolutionary idea . this be important and a it show that the decadent romantic and ultimately escapist language and person of childe harold be change into the more planted in life realistic and light passion of the language and person of don juan . life and work be one . true and still a bit naive and but it what get him to greece . and the whole thing come full circle in pisa and where shelley revolutionary spirit far ignite the spark . missolonghi wasn not the bored snob suddenly look for some action . it be the insight in italy ( the gamba ) stir him into action . it can be a symbol for the man look for some ancient style battle excitement while the rest of europe become fix in the clay of modern reason and conservatism . but it wasn not just that and there be a true inspiration behind it . meanwhile and byron write massive amount of don juan . true and his end be a bit sad and but it not like he wear out . that be the essence of byron life represent he may have have some strong emotional attachment ( 2 represent augusta and teresa ) and but every time he manage to reinvent himself truly . meaning that he wasn not less at the end of his life no and he would make a physical and mental journey that and at the time and few people be prepare to make . i wonder . why be it that so often the second period in byron life be overlook . because it have less obvious conflict and a the man be finally come to his own . in focus our attention on the frustrated england year fraught with scandal and we show ourselves to be not much good than the english aristocracy at the time and which byron so despised and and which and despite the fact that he have no choice and he willingly flee in 1816 and to find a world that be modern and liberal enough to let him find the voice that would make him the first romantic plainspoken language poet and evolve from a self obsess snob to a passionate man move onward with a cause .