Emma does not seem the type of woman I would like to meet even thought the author is supposed to love all her characters. Masterpiece theatre did a good job of showing her absence of forethought. When a simple girl like Harriet was dissuaded to fall further in love with a farmer. Mr. Martin this apparently was Emma's first mistake. She could have allowed her friend make up her own decision without interfering. Mr McKnight, who was landed gentry, criticized her for her meddlesome behaviour although one might wonder how he could have voiced his opinion so blatantly. This is where the telefilm could have improved: by having McKnight talking with Emma earlier and then build up a conflict between them.

As it stood, this gentleman would always be confrontational with Emma and one wondered what his relationship was in the first place. We know from the film and book this was no brother, sister relationship and he looked after her when she was small. It appeared that he had no romantic interest in any single lady there if all he was after was supervision of public parties, or so it seemed.

Emma would show a lack of wit regarding her opinions and even her popularity even further by criticizing Bates for being a chatterbox. She was then made aware of the role the older lady had in helping her in life.

The film lacks in showing several other essential developments that the story might have better touched on such as the relationship between other couples. Mr. Churchill and Miss Fairfax were actually engaged and yet that gentleman came across as a total stranger. The film story gradually gets to a point where Emma reaches a moment of looking inside and sees that Harriet could determine her own future and that happens just at the turning point where she meets McKnight again. One wonders if she is going to refuse his overtures but happily she does not. Here is your classic "happily ever after" ending as all is not lost.

Tywker has brought Patrick Suskind's widely popular literary historical horror masterpiece Perfume, to the big screen. On top of managing seemingly impossible, he has also managed to deliver an entertaining film that captures the imagination without playing for cheap and easy thrills.

Talented British newcomer Ben Whishaw weighs in with an impressive turn as a Jean Baptiste Grenouille, a young 18th century Frenchman blessed with an extraordinary sense of smell and a unique talent for discerning the scents that swirl around him. Born without an odour of his own, Grenouille endeavors to manufacture the perfect perfume from flesh of murdered virgin and sets off on a journey that takes him from the putrid streets o Paris to the paradise of perfume that is Grasse.

Obsessed with the idea of preserving the human scent-something that he considers the soul of a person-he begins murdering beautiful young women, whose beautiful bouquet turns his head, in order to distill their smell .

When 12 young girls are found murdered, panics rule as the people as Grasse rush to protect their daughters. Oblivious to the clamor around him, an unrepentant and unrelenting Grenouille continues his quest to create the ultimate perfume: a human scent that is simply irresistible to all who come into contact with it.

With able support from Dustin Hoffman - excellent as the master perfumer Baldini who takes Grenouille under his wing- Alan Rickman and the gorgoes Rachel Hurd-Wood, plus an incredible, climatic scene that is likely to enter cinema here, Perfume come s across as thoroughly enjoyable fare with a fresh and original.