The Hireling
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Robert Shaw
Steven Ledbetter
Sarah Miles
Lady Franklin
Peter Egan
Captain Hugh Cantrip
Caroline Mortimer
Connie
Elizabeth Sellars
Lady Franklin's mother
Ian Hogg
Davis
Lyndon Brook
Doctor
Patricia Lawrence
Mrs. Hansen
Petra Markham
Edith
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
“Lady Franklin” (Sarah Miles) is reduced to an emotional black fog following the death of her husband during the War and her close friends seem unable to reach her. It might be that her chauffeur can do that, as she gradually begins to bond with “Steven” (Robert Shaw). He is a fastidious and proud, self-employed, gent who is polite and charming to her. He even lets her sit in the front with him - despite the inappropriateness, familiarity even, of this. She begins to treat him more like a confidant, hiring him more often and spending more time with him for the sake of it. As time progresses, he begins to find himself more drawn to her, but he knows the class divide is immense and that she is also being courted by veteran “Capt. Cantrip” (Peter Egan) whom we can determine fairly easily isn’t so much interested in her as in her fortune. What chance the societal norms can be broken? Can anything ever transpire between them? When it comes down to it, does she actually want it to? Shaw and Miles are on great form here. The former delivers a delicately accumulating characterisation of a man conflicted by an innate understanding of his own position in the great scheme of things, but one increasingly infatuated in and concerned for his employer. The latter plays the emotionally disturbed character equally effectively, with a degree of demure frustration that seems to be desperate to break from her shell of conformity, whilst equally addicted to it’s security. It’s a grand looking production with loads of attention to the detail in the production design, but it is really the cumulating toxicity that emanates from Shaw that seals the seal here, showing the iniquities of the class system don’t just work in the one direction.
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ซูซาน (เดมี่ มัวร์) และ มาร์ค (ดีแลน แม็คเดอมอตต์) เป็นคู่สามีภรรยาที่เหมือนจะน่าอิจฉาในสายตาใคร ๆ ทั้งที่ความจริงแล้วชีวิตรักของทั้งคู่ไม่ได้สวยหรูขนาดนั้น ก่อนที่วันหนึ่งมาร์คจะถูกจับกุมด้วยความผิดหลายข้อหาและต้องเข้าคุก ซูซาน เองแม้จะไม่มีส่วนรู้เห็นด้วยแต่ก็โดนลูกหลงถูกจับด้วย อย่างไรก็ตามศาลยังเมตตา ตัดสินให้เธอแค่ต้องทำงานรับใช้สังคมด้วยการช่วยเหลือ บิล โอคแลนด์ (อเล็ค บอลด์วิน) อดีตนักเขียนซึ่งประสบอุบัติเหตุจนตาบอด ด้วยการอ่านหนังสือให้เขาฟัง จากความสัมพันธ์ที่ดูเหมือนไม่มีอะไรเกินเลย แต่เมื่อใกล้ชิดกันบ่อยเข้า ซูซานและบิลก็เริ่มมีใจให้กันมากขึ้น ทุกอย่างผ่านไปด้วยดีจนกระทั่งมาร์ครู้เรื่องเข้า
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คู่หมั้นหนุ่มสาวฝันอยากจะใช้ชีวิตร่วมกันอย่างมีความสุขตราบนานเท่านาน ทว่าผลตรวจโรคร้ายที่ไม่คาดคิดกลับทำให้อนาคตของทั้งคู่ต้องสั่นคลอน
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