Review of The Personal History of David Copperfield

I can cope with the fact that they have slaughtered a Charles Dickens novel, I can even cope with the fact that it's as boring as watching paint dry but one thing I cannot live with is the colour blind casting. Yes, there should be more people of colour in film, yes there should be more gender diversity but when you make a Dickensian film based in the period then at least try to make it sympathetic to the times it was based. Is it too much too ask for members of the same family to be from the same ethnic group?

It's PC for the sake of being PC and as such the acting talent, of which was considerable, was wasted to the point of being comical.