Either Vikander's Gerda or Redmayne's Lili could be viewed as the Danish girl of the title, as the narrative dwells less on one spouse's
transformation than the evolution of their marriage as a result.
By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the
evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important
than this development of the content of the Law is the
transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.