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Anthony Shaffer and Harold Pinter have teamed up to curate one of the most profound, detailed, naked, The most abusive human script - a house, two men, three conversations, and finally death. The reason is that it is indeed caused by a woman, but it is not enough to constitute such a drama, and its process is difficult to be labeled as a big competition, let alone to attribute the whole film to an old man and a young man. A woman who doesn't even show her face in a film is so vulgar to fight.
The explanation derived from the dialogue in the film is as follows: Wyke and Tindle, the former is legally fucking a woman in the past, while the latter is now illegally fucking a woman the former once fucked. So when the overlooking camera shot on the door of Wyke's house, Tindle stood against a body that could overflow at any time with anxiety and embarrassment, and the scene began. Tindle clearly knows that the next person to face is not someone else, but the legal husband of the woman he is fucking, and what he wants to talk about is not about the other side, but about getting the husband to agree to the divorce and giving the woman to him as a legal daughter-in-law. child thing. All of this, I think, for a down-and-out actor, down-and-out hairdresser, it must take some unease and embarrassment to fill that moment. Therefore, if the contest had to be imposed on the entire film, then this opening scene of Tindle was doomed to a complete defeat. At this time, the original role has actually begun to shift. Tindle gradually became the object of being fucked, and it was Wyke who fucked him. Of course, after watching the whole film, you will realize that in fact, you are living in a fucking A tindle that rejects real life!
As a well-known writer, Wyke uses the camera to understand everything around him. Perhaps the word in the title is more appropriate - Sleuth detection, this hidden way of observing from the side is enough to gain insight into some inadvertent moments, and it is easy to know Human nature, these are also the inevitability that make up his works and make him a famous writer. Relatively speaking, Tindle is just a small character. Perhaps the easiest definition for him is a bad boy. The only difference from ordinary children is that he lacks innocence and dismisses him. For the sake of face, he has self-arrogance, and for selfishness, he has self-assertion.
Therefore, in the opening scene, Tindle spread out his hands and introduced himself in a smart way, and then he stuck at the door because he was waiting for Wyke to extend his hand. No doubt he wanted to gain respect by doing this. There is a huge gap between the two. To find a little balance for himself, but after all, he is facing a well-known writer, he is only a nobody, and the other party is an elder, he should reach out to express friendship and respect after the introduction, but he is still stubborn. There was no movement. And I think when I saw Wyke reach out, the expression behind Tindle's face should be a little surprised at first, then heaved a sigh of relief, then obtained some satisfaction, and finally a little proud. As for Wyke, I think when he stretched out the friendly hand and said "Glad to meet you" with a smile on his face, he had already found out what happened to this Tindle.
Wyke: "You Knew?"
Tindle: "Yes, I knew!"
Wyke: "Have a drink? I'm drinking vodka"
Tindle: "Scotch, please, Scotch"
This is going into the house Tindle is verbally to Wyke Teasing, and constantly starting to pull the lever with it, obviously this is the immature performance of Tindle, there are countless such examples in the following dialogue, and the color of this film is also in the naked and abusive situation. The dialogue is like this of detail and depth.
So in the subsequent conversations Wyke was inducing good intentions, not so much as a drill, but a drill. Drilling this hairy guy, maybe his way is evil, because the creepy smile on his face is combined with his ugly nose. Often only the obscene remains. This process continued throughout the film, and when it came to the second dialogue, after he found out that he was retaliated by Tindle, the roar in the elevator was so full of loss! Because at that moment he began to realize that the ugliness in Tindle's human nature exploded so quickly, violently, and even irreversibly under its catalysis.
Wyke may have realized that he was trying to shatter Tindle's self-awareness with a blank bullet, and that trying to teach him obedience and patience was futile, and that his desire to find a home for his wife had to be abandoned. So at the end of the film when Wyke raises his gun again and shoots at Tindle, take a closer look, his eyes are full of contempt, and after this contempt I think it's endless disappointment for this kid, he realizes that Tindle can't be made, yes Unchangeable, so instead of so much nonsense as the first time I raised the gun, I didn't hesitate or wait, I replaced it with a real bullet and shot it at Tindle, and it was over.
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