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...Vanessa's arms no longer show the damage she once did to them. That's saying something, given that the damage was considerable. The college freshman, 19, started with just a few scratches from a sharp piece of plastic. Later came the razor blades and then the kitchen knives. After a time, she took to wearing bracelets to cover her injuries; when that wasn't enough, she began cutting less conspicuous parts of her body. "I was very creative," she says, with a smile...
...fellow translators Adam and Vanessa and I were lounging around the office one quiet afternoon when an MP's urgent-sounding voice came over the radio: "Translator needed pronto on cellblock Charlie." Adam and I both bolted. As we cleared into Charlie block, we saw medics rushing there as well. Out in the yard I saw a detainee, blood all over his right arm and covering his feet, halfway on a stretcher with the left side of his body dangling...
Halim didn't speak in the weeks after the treatment. He just stared straight ahead. But the day the MPs were transferring detainees from Camp X-Ray to the newly built Camp Delta, Halim received another beating. Vanessa saw him two days after the move and noticed that his face was black and blue. She tried to investigate why Halim was IRFed the day of the move, but her questions went unanswered...
...quiet young man named John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is a surprise guest at a dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun in his mouth and splatters his brains across her kitchen wall. The shock of this scene, which sends horror-show gasps through a movie house of jaded adults, also blasts the story back to 1953, dramatizing the abortive affair that the teenage Jean (played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson...
...stumbles into a mature, equitable relationship with the local policeman. But Hare is after much more: the composite portrait of middle-class England, a community in which an affable exterior hides sexual crimes behind the privet hedge. The casting coup of Redgrave mère et fille pays handsome dividends: Vanessa, ever luminous, her face a substructure of sinew and stress waiting to implode, and Joely, with much of her mother's beauty and most of her shy mannerisms in embryo. They bring body and soul to a tantalizing entertainment...