A bit of a sore throat and minus weather outside compelled me to be a couch potato for the afternoon and I tell you it turned out to be quite rewarding! I watched the now two year old Kenneth Branagh’s movie, Sleuth.

Sleuth, an adapted screen play from a sensational stage play in the 1970’s showed Michal Cain and Jude Law at one of their best performances. With an extremely limited cast (I will not mention the number for I might spoil your fun), Sleuth was shot in an extremely modern and urban setting.

However, the excitement that unfolds in the story had only so much to do with the gadgetry aspect of the architecture and interiors of the old age crime writer Andrew Wyke (Cain)’s house. It was rather the intellectual tease of the detective game between Wyke and the small time half Italian and handsome actor Milo Tindle (Law), who was having an affair with Wyke’s wife, that kept my eyes glued to the screen for 90 minutes!
With a rude, egoistic, witty and figurative script, it shows how the English can entice you with the twist of a language under their mercy. A true cat and mouse game portraying a battle of male ego, with just the right amount of wit, love, revenge, spite, greed and envy, Sleuth definitely served me well to entertain an otherwise blue afternoon.
Full synopsis on Imdb available here.

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