I know this is a highly regarded film for it's dark but serious portrayal of a real life serial killer but it's difficult to watch. In the working class concrete jungle (literally there appears to be a single tiny tree in a sea of gray stone) a mild-mannered, middle aged man starts murdering women during WW2.
A few years later, a young couple with a baby move in. The upstairs apartment they inhabit is dirty and dank, something that hasn't been renovated since the Victorian era 50 years earlier, and their baby cries constantly. The husband is a complete loser, he can't read and write, and he's abusive towards the wife. Apparently, the soft-spoken serial killer frames him to protect himself and is unfairly hanged.
This is an important chapter in UK legal history, and I don't doubt the excellence of the acting portrayals ...but the film is just ugly and miserable to watch, and it's exceedingly difficult to feel a whole lot of sympathy for the illiterate, abusive husband framed for murder.
A few years later, a young couple with a baby move in. The upstairs apartment they inhabit is dirty and dank, something that hasn't been renovated since the Victorian era 50 years earlier, and their baby cries constantly. The husband is a complete loser, he can't read and write, and he's abusive towards the wife. Apparently, the soft-spoken serial killer frames him to protect himself and is unfairly hanged.
This is an important chapter in UK legal history, and I don't doubt the excellence of the acting portrayals ...but the film is just ugly and miserable to watch, and it's exceedingly difficult to feel a whole lot of sympathy for the illiterate, abusive husband framed for murder.