Reviews

I see this wonderful film as primarily a study of the protagonist's character. The idea is simple: he is, like the wolves around him, a solitary stoic brute surviving in a harsh environment, but underneath the wolfskin he literally wears is a fully sentient human; and the story is full of instances illustrating this. The culmination is his tears at the end: they are not just for his own imminent death - they are surely tears of remorse too, for having made his wife want to kill him and flee.

Review by Stephoni.

I watched this Brit drama on Amazon Prime. I rated it mediocre - 5 out of 10. In my opinion the decision to make the protagonist a deaf teenage girl and Genevieve Barr's performance redeem it, and distinguish it from the rest in its genre.

The plot, which is generally vague, has one yawning implausibility. It is this: Policewoman Jane Shillady was murdered by being run down while jogging in a park. She was bounced across the top of the car, then reversed over. At no point in the entire 4 tedious hours of the drama do the police ever mention the car. As the murder weapon, the car would have been the most crucial piece of evidence, and a veritable treasure trove of forensics. When Amelia recognised the photo of Lee Gregson as the killer and told her high-ranking detective uncle Jim, who was in charge of the case, why did he not immediately seize all vehicles to which Gregson had had access? If, in order to protect Amelia, Jim did not want to show his hand, why was there not at least a scene of his wrestling with what must have been a terrible dilemma?

It is plainly ridiculous that the car was ignored throughout the story. It is as though the writers were so fixated on the overwrought family dynamics that they forgot all about obvious police basics.