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Actors: Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Drowning By Numbers |
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This 1988 film is one of Peter Greenaway's odder, more surreal, if lighthearted pieces of work. Three women -- a mother, a daughter, and a niece, all named Cissie Colpitts -- are dissatisfied with their husbands and arrange for them to drown. The local coroner Madgett (Hill), who is addicted to game playing, agrees to help the women disguise the murders. Games of all sorts appear throughout the tale. The story is paced by numerals or collections of objects which appear in sequence from 1 to 100. Strange, tongue-in-cheek, and difficult to parse (but easy to watch if one doesn't worry about the meaning), this film can strike the viewer as either mercilessly tricky or delightfully wry.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Drowning By Numbers |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- spurned lover goes for revenge
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- Killer POV story
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Water?
Yes
Water:
- drowning
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
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