Quote:
"In Mansfield Park, Rozema's social critiques of slavery, colonialism, and women's roles in society make it impossible to incorporate Austen's emphasis of stability, moral guidance, and community. In the adaptation, Rozema emboldens Fanny's character, inviting audience members to cheer Fanny's freedom from Sir Thomas's and Mansfield Park's imprisonment and their moral flaws. [...] While Rozema's film skews the preferred reading of Austen's novel toward a contemporary colonialism critique, Mansfield Park remains true to many aspects of Austen's work. The adaptation bases its interpretation and critique in the text; in other words, the interpretation is viable, although controversial."
-- Kathi Groenendyk

Source:
Groenendyk, Kathi. "Modernizing Mansfield Park: Patricia Rozema's Spin on Jane Austen." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 25, no. 1 (2004).