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Everyone knew he would marry Ann Davies, his high school sweetheart, his friends say.
It did seem promising: a multigenre film--serious with social commentary, seductive with sexual entanglements--I was prepared to laud novice filmmaker, Howard Davies, as a potential Hitchcock for our time.
Appearances can be deceiving. If only I could say something as clever about this film. There is no mystery about any of the characters here. It seems that Davies is afraid that if an idea was too subtly communicated, the audience might miss its overarching significance. Most characters are caricatures...
When Katherine is put in a mental institution after stabbing a businessman at dinner with the butter knife, I could not help but wonder why she was the only one getting mental help. Of course, Davies makes the point by having the only mentally balanced characters in the film die...
In a word, the cinematography is different--not innovative--but different. Most of the scenes are unusually dark. The drama seems to unfold in an atmosphere of a funeral, the event that started the film. This worked well in the scenes in the new office building, producing a surreal, avant...