As the second director works of Ralph fiennes, and adaptation of Shakespeare's play "Coriolanus" is different, the origin of the film is just dug around 2010 unofficial secret love.Is itself a biopic characters, selection of perspective is very important. By tying as unofficial history narrative subject, not with is reminiscent of the mining of literary and art workers secret "girl with a pearl earring".And this film is about the writer rather than a limner, in the picture style and narrative rhythm, also some more abstract and imagery, such as the fore and aft care practices and hidden interleave flashbacks, in western historical biography movie are rare.Although the story background is the Victorian era, in addition to the clothes and a few size banquet, ignores the basic shape of time. And the core of the film characters is closely related to theatre acting this kind of mass entertainment, no more thoughts in this aspect, merely by the number of lines to reflect the rich and poor and living condition, obviously some of the defects.As a historical biography movie, on the performance requirements of tolerance, naturally want to hold to the spirit of historical figures, other supporting roles have no place to blame.