Hard Times

Had to watch this at school... it was really, really dull (as is the book a lot of the time). I don’t know whether it just hasn’t aged well, but at times it felt like I was watching a play production with the sets and outfits. The acting was very good, however, and they did not diverge from the book at all really.  The main place this falls down is it’s one main divergence from the book - the ending! It doesn’t explain what ultimately happened to the characters and the big fight between Mrs Sparsit and Bounderby (where they really go in for each other, i.e. the most interesting part of the book) never happens! 2/5