I wish I could not have found this movie as I spent two nights to watch (my wife fell asleep the first night as the movie was so entertaining).
This movie is like you create a 4 hours movie then because of cost cut, you reduce its length to half or less, cutting out scenes randomly. So, at the end, you have a "sort of" movie but most of the time it doesn't make too much sense to the audience what the actors and actresses do. I always had the feeling that something would come at the next scene that gives explanation on what is happening and why it is happening... but nothing came unfortunately.
So, two drunk people stabbed someone to see "he was fat or just big". One of them is sentenced to death but there is no executioner and guillotine in the village so their order one (hopefully comes with an executioner as well). From some reason the wife of the local military station's captain fall in "love?" with the prisoner (the movie doesn't explain why and how, it just happens suddenly) but the lady is still having strong sexual scenes with his husband.
The captain's wife asks his husband to use the prisoner as a support worker around the house, later to support over villagers and more and more. But this "angel" work is not too well worked out. The captain gets across with anyone who questions why the prisoner has an "easy life" at the prison and why he monopolises the prisoner for his own wife only. And the audience just don't understand (me and my wife) what is happening and why. But everyone starts to love/like the prisoner in the village. He is just beauty and full of charm despite he says 20 sentences only during the whole movie.
Of course, at the end the village's mayor reports the act of the captain and his wife as "mutiny" to the authorities. They came, bring a "IKEA like" guillotine (you still need to work on it and assemble it) and it just does not work at the end. The authorities dismiss the captain (the mayor's letter has been delivered) and execute him. There were lots of questions in us while we were watching this movie. Why does the captain's wife insist so hard to receive from and give support to the prisoner? Why does the captain fight with anyone who brings up monopolising the prisoner? What is this movie about? Why are we still watching this movie?
Big disappointment.
This movie is like you create a 4 hours movie then because of cost cut, you reduce its length to half or less, cutting out scenes randomly. So, at the end, you have a "sort of" movie but most of the time it doesn't make too much sense to the audience what the actors and actresses do. I always had the feeling that something would come at the next scene that gives explanation on what is happening and why it is happening... but nothing came unfortunately.
So, two drunk people stabbed someone to see "he was fat or just big". One of them is sentenced to death but there is no executioner and guillotine in the village so their order one (hopefully comes with an executioner as well). From some reason the wife of the local military station's captain fall in "love?" with the prisoner (the movie doesn't explain why and how, it just happens suddenly) but the lady is still having strong sexual scenes with his husband.
The captain's wife asks his husband to use the prisoner as a support worker around the house, later to support over villagers and more and more. But this "angel" work is not too well worked out. The captain gets across with anyone who questions why the prisoner has an "easy life" at the prison and why he monopolises the prisoner for his own wife only. And the audience just don't understand (me and my wife) what is happening and why. But everyone starts to love/like the prisoner in the village. He is just beauty and full of charm despite he says 20 sentences only during the whole movie.
Of course, at the end the village's mayor reports the act of the captain and his wife as "mutiny" to the authorities. They came, bring a "IKEA like" guillotine (you still need to work on it and assemble it) and it just does not work at the end. The authorities dismiss the captain (the mayor's letter has been delivered) and execute him. There were lots of questions in us while we were watching this movie. Why does the captain's wife insist so hard to receive from and give support to the prisoner? Why does the captain fight with anyone who brings up monopolising the prisoner? What is this movie about? Why are we still watching this movie?
Big disappointment.