Joe Wright's film adapts Austen's novel into a single feature, which forces the compression that distinguishes it from the television versions: five sisters, two proposals and a reversal of judgement in a little over two hours. Its visible choice is dirt. The Bennet household is working rather than genteel, with livestock in the yard and hems that show it, against an adaptation tradition that had played the family as comfortably respectable. The class gap the plot turns on becomes legible in the set instead of only in the dialogue.