# Is there a difference between what we need and want?

> This weeks The Big Picture looks at books that have been turned into films. They focus this week on the latest cinema adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd.

26 June 2015 · Reviews / Culture

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This week, The Big Picture looks at books that have been turned into films — sparked by the cinema release of a new version of Thomas Hardy’s *Far from the Madding Crowd.* Starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Sheen, *Far From The Madding Crowd* casts marriage in a particular light, prompting the Big Picture blokes to ponder what Hardy’s morality tale has to say to us in the 21st Century.