well wright may have make a gritty depiction of life around 1800 a he so repeatedly and anally go on about because of when it be write a oppose to publish but it be his not austen and shouldn not claim to be an adaptation . mrs bennett look like a rural washerwoman . this be a pampered woman they have servant ( remember the book scene with the servant dress the hair and etc ) . but wright portrays her with rough redden skin all down her chest and rough hand and work in the kitchen . and the pig wander through . if he want bucolic and he should try tess . mr bennett the script make too cuddly and modern and ignore the weakness in him . the scene where he stop mary playing be suppose to make you cringe not pass in second . if it doesn not do not include it . macfadyen be very weak in the part and seem to be do some kind of pride by number act . the first proposal he look like a nervous schoolboy rather than a man overcome his pride to make a proposal beneath his station . most of his line and he could as well be read a shopping list . lydia be awful . completely over the top with excessive shrieking and skipping . indeed and knightley play elizabeth more like the giggle inane character lydia actually be in the book and at time . and elizabeth . half the time knightley be and clearly and mimic ehle voice and intonation close your eye to see what a copy it be . and in her role you see wright major error there be no prejudice . from the first encounter with darcy she clearly fancy him . when he comment to bingley on the attractiveness of the woman in the hall she initially look hurt not shock and affront . the latter should set up the prejudice side of thing . and when she and caroline be prance round the room she come across like a tease and obviously all over him . and by virtually cut out wickham you do not get elizabeth invest enough there to set up the prejudicial aspect fall out of that relationship . and apparently it be caroline not miss bingley . and mr bingley happily wanders into jane bedroom . and and and wright can boast about how great he be with period all he want . but a few panorama shot of rural life ( which show the preference for hardy ) do not excuse him the glare blunder all over the place . the cinematographer who clearly want award should have be rein in . he veer between bronte and hardy throughout the film and wasn not the last proposal shot or light from tess . the need to see darcy walk along through the cape with unkempt shirt be just dumb . but most importantly when go between those 2 very different landscape they forget the most important one austen . ( she would have laugh out loud at the elizabeth equal sad and therefore equal rain and run through to picturesque folly and wet darcy rubbish ) . i admit i find it impossible the watch the film without use the book a context . i be prepare to give it some leeway a it have to provide the story in a short space of time . but to forget fully one half of the core of the book in prejudice and darcy to continually look more constipated than prideful and make it almost unwatchable . i could only see it a a mess with generally poor performance ( when knightley wasn not ape ehle she be gurning or skip or both and only calm down a couple of time to indicate she do have some promise but faffing about on swing to convey emotion isn not a substitute for a poor script and poor direction ) although for some it be simply a case of bad script . tom holland alone would escape censure . while he tone down the comic aspect of collins and he do turn in a very interesting approach . dench do superbly the schtick she can do in her sleep whether it be here or in oscar wilde but this be suppose to be lady catherine de bourgh not lady bracknell . she be just a little too sane . the shortened length could have be handle by a competent screenwriter and surely . not character fill in story gap and help along the audience all over the place . elizabeth couldn not have come up with the £10k figure . and while they want to cut time with her learning of darcy involvement in wickhams marriage the line do not fit with lydia . it be the bad case of incongruous exposition in the piece . it really be appal stuff . anyone who review it say it work well in the context of the book be someone i frankly do not believe have read or understand the characterisation in the thing . wright seem to think his character be in the 1990s not the 1709s from their behaviour . i be not convince he have read the book he certainly doesn not understand it . he doesn not understand austen acerbic wit or lightness of touch he certainly make a dull plodding film out of it . what be possibly worse be the sad pathetic need of the chick lit lover to need the i love you and i love yous all over the place so they can sigh and get off on it . the fact that it have no place in a work by austen be apparently irrelevant . anyone who review it a a film alone . well and more difficult for me except i would note the poor acting and the weak darcy and and the gurning skip inane irritation of the whole thing . if you be go to adapt you can change a lot but if it lose the spirit and key motivation and then do not insult the book by take it title .