Bleak House
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ome admirable effort was put into this BBC Warner miniseries based on Charles Dicken’s “Bleak House.” I’d just read the novel and was wondering how all the complexity would translate into film and this adaptation did an excellent job of it.
Dickens gets away with rather cardboard characters because his writing is rich in underlying social and political analysis. But often the translation of these 2D characters into film makes for maudlin entertainment and doesn’t do justice to Dicken’s stories or writing. In this adaptation many creative filming devices are used to convey nuance and subtlety that add some of the deeper meanings (not necessarily portrayed by the characters) into the film. It truly captures Dicken’s juxtapositioning of the dark and deluded aspects of humanity with the potential for goodness or at least humor.