Ann summed it up nicely the moment the movie ended, “So she fell out the bottom of one caste system into the top of another.” This film is based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, and like some of the movies based on Jane Austen and E.M. Forster books it left me grateful that I haven’t been forced into a life of obsession with class, marriage, and pedigree. Although, maybe that’s just because I’m not ambitious enough…