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Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, John Bowe, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Wilkinson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Prime Suspect 1 |
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Detective Chief Inspector John Shefford is about to make a homicide arrest in record time when he is felled by a heart attack. Superintendent Kernan (Benfield) appoints DCI Jane Tennison (Mirren) to take over the case of a stabbed prostitute, much to the disgust of many of the officers who will report to her. Tennison is ambitious, driven, highly capable, and obsessed with succeeding on her first big case, but she realizes that the prime suspect, George Marlow (Bowe) is being held on insufficient evidence. She orders him released and presses her team to make a stronger case, as well as to connect the brutal killing of a young streetwalker with older, unsolved cases. Tennison also has to deal with the resistance of most of her subordinates, especially the active sabotage of DCI Bill Otley (Bell). Due to her obsession with the case and long hours, her relationship with her boyfriend Peter Rawlins (Wilkinson) also suffers.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Prime Suspect 1 |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Story partially from villain's perspective
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- prostitutes/strippers/porn
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing nude female butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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