(classical music plays) - Well, what's really wonderful about "The Miniaturist" is that it will look and seems at first, like a fairly typical costume drama.
In it, there's a young and potentially naive female character who comes to a big city and into a big, sort of scary household.
- I've done lots of historical pieces.
There's something very unusual about this novel and this adaptation.
(gasps) - I would say it's a sumptuous period thriller, really.
Even though it's set in a very particular time.
So you get all the vivid quality of the historical age that we're not familiar with.
- I think it's an important novel, which I think makes some very important points about what happens when society's, you know the violent ways that they try and retain control over people.
- Schout and Schepenbank, they want to destroy me.
- It's all through Nella's POV, so you're getting the subjective view of that world.
Through her eyes.
- She's from the country and enters this world of Amsterdam, and it's all she's ever wanted.
She wants to fall in love and she meets this seemingly amazing guy who's charismatic and handsome and rich and everything she could ever have wanted.
But it turns out that not everything is as it appears.
- I think you had better leave before one of us says something we'll both regret.
- No.
No Johannes I know-- - Go, get out!
- "The Miniaturist," as a story, contains so much mystery and so much threat and fear, and that carries throughout the who story.
Through Nella's eyes you see someone who's completely green and fresh, and sees this world for what it really is.
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