*** This review may contain spoilers ***
*Plot and ending analyzed*
This was a very competent story. John Hurt is really fantastic in this, playing an officer, on leave from France in World War One. He visits an extremely solitary island. There sits an estate with a proper English butler. At first I thought that perhaps it was his own house and that he was visiting his mother. But we later find out that it is his lover's house. The husband of the woman also makes an appearance, or does he? The woman is later found dead, killed with a bullet from John Hurt's revolver.
What makes this one intriguing is that we don't exactly know who killed the woman.
Was there a complot between the butler and the dead woman's jealous husband? The butler stated to John Hurt that he was in South America. Or was that just a lie? Did John Hurt see a ghost? Perhaps it was John Hurt that shot her. Or the butler. Maybe she shot herself and then the butler put the revolver back in the holster.
No definite answers makes it even more tantalizing.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
This was a very competent story. John Hurt is really fantastic in this, playing an officer, on leave from France in World War One. He visits an extremely solitary island. There sits an estate with a proper English butler. At first I thought that perhaps it was his own house and that he was visiting his mother. But we later find out that it is his lover's house. The husband of the woman also makes an appearance, or does he? The woman is later found dead, killed with a bullet from John Hurt's revolver.
What makes this one intriguing is that we don't exactly know who killed the woman.
Was there a complot between the butler and the dead woman's jealous husband? The butler stated to John Hurt that he was in South America. Or was that just a lie? Did John Hurt see a ghost? Perhaps it was John Hurt that shot her. Or the butler. Maybe she shot herself and then the butler put the revolver back in the holster.
No definite answers makes it even more tantalizing.
