This film is about the last woman hung in England. I have read the other reviews and it seems there are some real fans of this movie. I think this is a problem when movie buffs review films. Odd, I know but what they do is focus on direction, lighting all these technical things which although good in some cases don't necessarily make for a good film.
And that is the problem here. The acting is top notch no complaints there, all the pegs appear to be in the right places. But the film is boring and pointless nonetheless. We see a woman who hosts parties and prostitutes herself. She isn't particularly mean but she isn't all that nice either. She has an affair with a younger man who in the end is just stringing her along as his parents do not approve when he says he wants to marry her. I would not approve either.
When he fails to take her abroad as promised, she gets upset and shoots him. There doesn't seem to be much more to it than that and then the film ends. No court room scenes, no more insight into her mind, nothing.
Are we meant to feel sympathy because she is a woman? She killed someone, she was executed.
I feel like I wasted my time watching this movie.
And that is the problem here. The acting is top notch no complaints there, all the pegs appear to be in the right places. But the film is boring and pointless nonetheless. We see a woman who hosts parties and prostitutes herself. She isn't particularly mean but she isn't all that nice either. She has an affair with a younger man who in the end is just stringing her along as his parents do not approve when he says he wants to marry her. I would not approve either.
When he fails to take her abroad as promised, she gets upset and shoots him. There doesn't seem to be much more to it than that and then the film ends. No court room scenes, no more insight into her mind, nothing.
Are we meant to feel sympathy because she is a woman? She killed someone, she was executed.
I feel like I wasted my time watching this movie.