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...hurts on the other side too. Marcella (Helen Mirren) is the mother of a small child whose policeman husband was shot in his own farmhouse by the I.R.A. She works in a small lending library and lives on the farms with her husband's parents. Hers is a numb existence as she unwillingly shares the burden of tragedy with her late husband's family...
...they were all like Shamie [Cal's father] there'd be less trouble 'round here," a Catholic remarks. There is one tragic twist in MacLaverty's plot which reverberates throughout the film and which, ironically, leads to a poignant link between the opposite sides. The killing of the policeman, which opens the film, is the killing for which Cal was the unwilling driver...
...with that policeman's wife that Cal becomes compellingly infatuated. He glimpses her through library bookshelves, follows her after her work, and even finds employment at the farm where she lives and where her husband was killed. A curious blend of infatuation and guilt draws this youth from trembling, zombied isolation in his father's house to vigorous, healthy work. Hiding from the I.R.A. and the police in a hut near the farmhouse, Cal finds solace in the company of the similarly isolated Marcella. The ensuing relationship is the more remarkable for its seeming impossibility; a fragile, temporary salvage from...
...Policeman Earl Sands, Florida suspect accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old girl, surrendered last month to the pastor of a church he had attended; the pastor then accompanied Sands to the police station...
...When the policeman's widow, a librarian named Marcella (Helen Mirren), is pointed out to Cal, he begins slyly, shyly to stalk her. Whether he seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer...