nice character development in a pretty cool milieu . be a male and i be probably not qualify to totally understand it and but they do a nice job of establish the restrictive victorian environment from the start . it isn not as bleak a it really be and the treatment of woman be probably even harsher . what make this go be a wonderful chemistry among the principal character . each have their own thing that they contend with . once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider web and they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion . what i enjoy about this movie be that it do not go for cheap comedy when it could have . it do not try to pound a lesson into u . the people who seem utterly without merit be really nicely developed human being who get to see the light . i do have a little trouble with the alfred molina character have such an epiphany so quickly and but and within this world and it need to happen . good act all around with something positive take place in the life of some pretty good people .