Paddington's goodness is not softness. He works, he is precise, he goes to prison without becoming cynical, and he improves the people in the cells by expecting them to be neighbors. The villain wants the book's secret for himself. The bear wants the book as a gift. That is the whole moral difference, and the film never blurs it for a clever twist. The pop-up book at the end is a picture of attention: someone made a city carefully enough to live inside.

There is almost nothing here a house needs to apologize for. Watch it when the week has been sharp. Then be more polite than you feel, on purpose.