Maybe give them some money and save some children? Bottomline:ĭo you like dreary, claustrophobic scenes with British people talking for 18 minutes? If you’ve answered “yes”, then this is the movie for you. I wanted to see the girl dig into his conscience deeper and deeper, driving him mad.īut she eventually is written off without much climax, which is a shame and missed opportunity.
And that’s a neat twist and fun concept, but I needed more of the child to understand more about them. Because the story is not about their child victim, but about the criminals, the villains. I only wished I saw more of it, or had more of her, really. Seeing him fumble with her sharp questions and intuition at being kidnapped (coughAshLynxcough), and then marveling at her intelligence was an interesting and awkward concept. He is extremely sympathetic and honestly, my favorite scenes were with him and the child. The husband is conflicted as much as he’s, well, a criminal. Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. I feel like the movie is very careful at portraying child abduction and I appreciated that fact. Whoo, that’s a very loaded topic, innit guv’na?
The actors were terrific, the scenes were beautiful, but it just sludged around the plot and never really reached that pinnacle of suspense it was trying so desperately for. I love slow-burns, but this slow just didn’t burn…it just kind of molded from the wet afternoon. Myra (Kim Stanley) is a psychic who makes a living holding seances in her front room. How’s this poor dude going to handle this? How’s he going to play this? By giving in to her wild demands? By listening to his own rational and conscience?ĭon’t get me wrong, I liked this film, but the pacing is too slow. However, things start to unravel when the wife now demands that her husband kills the kidnapped child. The girl is kidnapped, the wife insinuates herself into the parents’ lives, and there’s tons of nervous smoking that only the 60’s can get away with. But in a twist, it’s not for the ransom money, but so that the wife can be the psychic who finds the girl and…big profits? Okay, so some of it seems half-baked, but it starts going according to plan. The ultimate ploy is revealed to be kidnapping the little girl of some fancy businessman. But for real, the first eighteen minutes are just long discussions to tell us, A) the wife is a medium and off her rocker, B) the husband will play along to some kind of scheme the wife is plotting, and C) something happened to a child at some point. Dramatic talking is about to being…AGAIN!
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