A middle-aged man has grown VERY tired of his wife. As an experienced criminal lawyer, he knows that the husband makes for the most logical suspect, meaning that he'll have to develop a foolproof plan. Meanwhile his wife is no longer the naive and starry-eyed girl he carried over the threshold. She has grown teeth and claws of her own...
"Guilty Conscience", an enormously twisty thriller, is a bravura piece of cleverness and ingenuity. It spins ever more variations on a single theme, to wit "How to get rid of a much-disliked spouse without doing twenty years in the slammer". Factual developments intermingle with murderous daydreams and what-if scenarios, which means that the viewers are kept on their toes. There are only three protagonists but thankfully they do wonderfully well, all of them.
The work also functions as a biting satire on the profession of criminal lawyer. Criminal lawyers come in all sizes and shapes, but there exists a sizeable proportion which goes around defending the indefensible in return for a fee. ("Ladies and gentlemen, my client did throw an old lady out of the window, but who's to say she didn't die of a heart attack on the way down ? And of course no one is to blame for a death by natural causes.") So what would happen if one of these brilliant-but-morally-challenged chaps decided to commit murder himself - cutting out the middle-man, so to speak ?
"Guilty Conscience", an enormously twisty thriller, is a bravura piece of cleverness and ingenuity. It spins ever more variations on a single theme, to wit "How to get rid of a much-disliked spouse without doing twenty years in the slammer". Factual developments intermingle with murderous daydreams and what-if scenarios, which means that the viewers are kept on their toes. There are only three protagonists but thankfully they do wonderfully well, all of them.
The work also functions as a biting satire on the profession of criminal lawyer. Criminal lawyers come in all sizes and shapes, but there exists a sizeable proportion which goes around defending the indefensible in return for a fee. ("Ladies and gentlemen, my client did throw an old lady out of the window, but who's to say she didn't die of a heart attack on the way down ? And of course no one is to blame for a death by natural causes.") So what would happen if one of these brilliant-but-morally-challenged chaps decided to commit murder himself - cutting out the middle-man, so to speak ?