The confession scene is brutal, but the part that really stuck with me is the moment when Angel literally weighs their sins. They both confess to the same thing, yet somehow, Tess’s past is heavier—because she’s a woman, because society is unfair, because Victorian morality is rotten to the core.
You can see her holding onto hope, believing for just a second that love and honesty will save her. And then Angel, who was so full of ideals, so different…