Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Elliott, Linus Roache

Directed By: Ian Softley

It takes us quite a while to like this movie. I think it is in the end of the whole movie where the film comes into its own being. The film is very unforgiving yet very potent with emotions. It is sad ride to a place where not many directors would want to go.

I will be refering to “it” alot in this review, it being an emotion that you will recieve as an audience while watching this piece. It takes a mind of its own by harnessing emotions of doubt, jealousy, greed and perhaps in all this emotions there is love. The film as such is an account of an affair between three people. But the clinging factor in this whole relationship is money which trascends later into unwanted love.

There are three main protagonists a rich heir, a wondering journalist and an awkward existence played by Helena Bonham Carter. Helena is the force that drives this story forward. She is the thought that the writer uses to create any sort of diversion that can be “it” itself. The story concerns more with the relationship between both heiress and the journalist. The film is essentially a love story disguised in a web of betrayal.

But in all this commotion there is a character who needs to be addressed that is Kate Croy. There is so much that can be said about this character. But let me just say that she is the epitome of liberated thought. But how far will she succeed and will she succumb to the horrendous obstacles of a studio film. The answer is well given in a single dialog where Kate says ” Will you be able to forget the memory of her” to Merton.

There are several moments in this movie that need careful observation. The scenes in this beautiful movie are filled with very thoughtful dialog. Dialogs that might spell the end of many of the characters adventures. But this movie is an experience of how some people have lost the big picture in life and are constrained by their conniving thoughts. They are not bad but they miss out on what is good. But finally it is not the “it” that succeeds. “It” is left nothing to live for but a better financial way of life. But will never get to see happiness ever again. But the journalist walks on and catches on to the Wings of The Dove and takes his life forward.

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