Friday, May 20, 2016
Dread
Impending doom hovers over all three parts of
I have seen it before.
This time because the first of the three stories involves Andrew Garfield as a meddling reporter sent to The North, a region of England, to find a story in the murder of a young girl.
It is a long commitment to watch a 6 hour film and there better be a payoff.
In this case there is.
The film is suspenseful and violent. Not much candy coating here.
The bleak British landscape, the council estates, the police corridors all provide a background to a "case" that turns out to be unsolved. It goes on for many years. Two more murders.
The drama is deep and there is little uplifting about the experience of watching except that people do get their comeuppance.
This is a character driven program and it took three top actors, one for each segment, to carry it off.
An enthusiastic 5 out of Netflix5 and I will likely not want to watch it again.
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