Absolutely the worst movie.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

During the beginning, I thought it was so unfair to sent young Mrs Lilly to her horrible creepy uncle.That scene reminded me of Jane Eyre when she was send to Lowood School as a young girl.In those days you were either sent to a close family member or a boarding school which was quite tough and extremely sad that you had no parents to rely on! I have to admit Charles Dance really did a good job on acting as a tough uncle haha!As we move on, we are introduced to Fingersmith Sue and not-a- fiancée-material type Gentlemen Rivers. I think it was so cruel that he made a bet with Sue to give her lots of money if he marries Maud Lilly and send her off to a mental asylum like her mother. I mean like come on, the girl went through hell of not having parents by her side like! No sympathy whatsoever from that man!Thankfully Sue didn't let that happen by loving Mrs Lilly even more and I found that very touching! I honestly think that the pair of them should've got married as they were such an adorable couple :)

they usually short but delicate,just like this Fingersmith.2 different women fall in love with secret plans inside each other,they want save themselves from the other but...just like lose the control,they sleep together,kiss,have sex,then try to deny all those 'sin', they hurt,kill,shut out,love seems transform into hate,expect their cares, never change.this is happy ending story,finally 2 girls know the truth,forgive and be together again. Mode is always the more-love one,she knew the plan from beginning but still love,love that not beautiful girl,that could hurt her girl,she's deep love more than i thought,or maybe love is a no-reason thing i just can't pretty understand.(btw,the little Mode is quite beautiful,why doesn't have other typical works) i always have interest in lesbian shows,this the first costume lesbian drama i said,lucky for me,it's better than great,i feel so much.

"Fingersmith" is divided into two episodes, and it is truly a hit and miss film. While watching the first episode, I thought I was experiencing one of the finest films ever made - it developed like a Dickensian novella courageously and poetically weaving a tale of lesbian love. Until just before the end of the first episode, I was fully expecting to give "Fingersmith" my highest recommendation.The organic kernel of the movie - as presented in the summary on this web site - is superb and of the highest quality. The movie goes off the tracks, however, at the very end of the first episode and never really gets back on track after that. There are too many plot twists which stretch the viewer's capability for suspension of disbelief past the breaking point. The film becomes much too impressed with its own cleverness and the second episode just feels inauthentic and overly contrived. It's almost an insult to the viewer's intelligence and a betrayal of the time so well invested up to that point. It also robs the film of its crux and primary dilemma, namely, after wrestling with her powerful feelings of love, her past loyalties and moral and ethical considerations, what decision will Sue Trinder make regarding the plan to defraud Maud? There's no doubt about it, simpler would have been much much better in this case. Nine stars for the first episode. One star for the second episode. Five stars overall. This could have been so much better.

It is always difficult to bring a 450 pages book down to a three hours film. I read the book before, and I found the BBC production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible. The qualities of the book haven't been lost: the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in London in the 1860s, the cold and obscene cruelty in which Maud is brought up, the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking, the unexpected and surprising twists of the story, the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from Sue's point of view then from Maud's one. The main actors do very good, and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed, with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other, because they still love each other.For each of her books the author, Sarah Waters, has thoroughly investigated what life was like in British 19th century. While in Tipping the Velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements, in Affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits, in Fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in London and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research. This is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth. I highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful Victorian atmosphere, vivid emotions, and suspense.