i love jane austen story . i have only read two of them ( p and p and s and s ) and but after have see this adaption and i be reach for persuasion from my bookcase just to make sense out of the story and and also and because i refuse to believe jane austen could have write such nonsense . for me and i think that if you base a film on a jane austen novel and you can not really go wrong . it will turn out great pretty much by default . i be wrong . first of all and where be the character that you sympathise with and like . you have to have at least one likable character to get the audience to invest their emotion in them and and this do not deliver . sure and i want anne and wentworth to get together and but only because that what you know the purpose of the story be and them get together . instead and i have to resist urge to throw my teacup at the tv and to continue watch it to the end . anne be utterly annoy throughout and and in the end and i really have no idea why wentworth be so smitten by her and a there seem to be nothing there for him to be attract to . she be meek and bland and dull and socially inadequate and come across like a sheep follow everyone else instruction rather than have a mind of her own . this can still work for a lead character and if you do it well . this wasn not do well . the other character be just display various degree of narcissism and of which mary be the bad and with a full blown narcissistic personality disorder . where mrs. bennet in p and p have similar flaw and she be still endear and whereas mary be more of a freak show . more loathsome than funny . wentworth be very handsome and seem like a decent kind of guy . for the most part of the story and i be just wonder what kind of person he be and why he in love with anne and a surely and he the kind of guy who would want a person who be a little bit more . alive . act wise and not too much to say and a i react more to the character be portray rather than how good or bad the people act be . anthony head be excellent and but as soon a i saw he be in it and i expect no less . also find the story very confuse . it wasn not until the end of the movie where it seem a if elizabeth be not anne stepmother and but in fact a sister ( i be still not 100 % on that ) . the whole anne or wentworth back story be also a bit fuzzy . they have be together but then break up and theyre both bitter about it . how come . i be wonder this for quite some time and and the explanation seem to be she dump him because she be persuade to do so by someone . but it be say in a kind of by the by way that it be almost missed and a if it be somehow unimportant . how can it be unimportant when it the very core of the story . there be also a lot of name dropping and but no real feel for who the character be . this louisa person for instance and who be she . a friend . family . what . it wasn not make very clear who the different character be and their relationship with one another . lady russell be there a lot and but why . mrs. croft and wentworth be brother and sister and which felt very unrealistic a mrs. croft look old enough to be his mother . the final kiss and yes it be a bit strange them kiss in the street and but i do not really think about it and because i be too busy yell get on with it already . at the tv and because anne lip tremble and tremble and tremble for what felt like age before they actually meet wentworth . have some hesitation there and but only for a couple of second or so and not half a minute . then there the issue of camera work . a a regular movie watcher and you do not pay attention to angle and such unless you decide to look out for it . i do not decide to do so here and but i still notice them . to me and that mean the filmmaker be not do a good job . a lot of conversation be with extreme facial closeup and something that should only be use when there a really important point to be make . in this adaption and it be over use and therefore lack meaning . the hand hold feeling on occasion also do not really work in a period drama . the camera work in the running scene in the end also felt too contemporary . ( not to mention the run itself . ) this be the only austen adaption i catch in itv austen season . make me wonder if it worth watch northanger abbey and mansfield park or if i should just read the book and leave it at that . i be sad to say and this be a jane austen adaption i do not enjoy . maybe i will watch the 1995 version instead . the bbc be renowned for have do beautiful austen adaptation before and after all .