Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station keeper, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. That evening, the hunchback discovers Ewen with Pauline's body in the shack where he lives, and helps him to bury the corpse in the orchard. Later, however, Ewen inadvertently betrays himself: the body is disinterred by the police and Ewen breaks down hysterically. Years later, the hunchback, who has disavowed Ewen, encourages the friendship of another village youth. Peter Jessop's carefully textured camera work initially lends this mini-feature an edge of the picturesquely sinister. But the resolution of the anecdote is rather forced and anti-climactic, and some of the details (like the police searching the orchard at the dead of night) ring distractingly false. All the same, it represents a debut of some promise.
BFI英版蓝光
5分吧。 怪怪的~ 一个阴险的小车站驼背售票员，应该是因残疾，受歧视，油滑变态；另一个神经兮兮的杀人者，是个孤儿，我想他的童年一定很惨，以至于他自闭暴虐，杀死女孩后，他向女孩尸体表白，看得人挺心酸的。
Charthurst Green Kent 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous hunchbacked station keeper then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her pres...
