Vanity Fair -2004 Film- |work| <99% Best>

Here’s where critics and fans of the novel part ways with the film. Thackeray’s book is mean . It’s a savage, hilarious, and deeply cynical indictment of hypocrisy. The novel’s famous ending is not a redemption—it’s a cold shrug: “Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”