A fair amount of unmotivated, unappetizing and joyless sex, and much squalor. Not especially interesting squalor, either. We don't gain much insight into the lead character, other than that women can't resist him and he's single-handedly sustaining the share price for tobacco firms. Why does he do what he does? Why doesn't he do what he doesn't? Who the hell knows. It's difficult to make a passive character interesting. They didn't succeed here.
Maybe the editing left out some crucial connective tissue.
Some major lessons: the industrial revolution did not succeed in bringing Scotland out of the middle ages.
Maybe the editing left out some crucial connective tissue.
Some major lessons: the industrial revolution did not succeed in bringing Scotland out of the middle ages.