The Raven

The Raven

Today I went with my roommate to Concord where we met up with her boyfriend and his mom.  While walking around the mall, we found ourselves standing in front of the movie theatre.  I had never really heard of ‘The Raven” nor have I seen any previews or trailers for the movie so I didn’t exactly know what to expect.  Basically, It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories.  I was never forced to read any of Poe’s works in High School or even in College, so I was lost at times as to the references of his poems that were made throughout the entire movie.