Title: It's Okay If You Don't Love the Book
Product review: While this production is worth renting, it is not faithful to the book because of its omissions, and I found Ciaran Hinds to be a very unsatisfactory Mr. Rochester. The script highlighted his unsavory features (he is a deceiving adulterer, after all) to such an extent that his romantic and heroic qualities were insufficient to overcome the detriment to his character and likeability. In the book, his evil deeds are swept away by the force of his personality and the depth of his love. I also felt that while Timothy Dalton looked too young in the part, Ciaran Hinds looked too old and a bit worse for wear. The Timothy Dalton version is the most satisfying in terms of completion of plot. It is indeed straight from the book, as someone noted, and what a book it is! I think it takes quite some nerve to edit Charlotte Bronte to this extent.
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