i think that most of the folk who have post comment on this movie do not understand how to watch a movie and or or have little sense of elegance . first and to assess a movie you need to understand the extent to which everything in the film work together . modern sensibility demand great drama . no and i do not mean great setting of character and plot and but they seem to demand emotional trajectory that be greatly tragic or greatly comedic . this be a subtle movie . it beauty lie in it subtlety ( not to be confuse with simplicity ) . neither the story nor the character be simple in this movie . it be a beautifully film movie that make the most of combine sensuousness and politics and human weakness and venality . you name it . the world it set in would be alien and not understood today . a world where if you have it you have to flaunt it now and loudly and even if you only think you have it . many people today do not understand that victorian society wasn not really victorian a people understand that term today . this movie help set the record straight .