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markbickerton
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BBC2 Playhouse: Caught on a Train (1980)
Episode 1, Season 7
Excellent!
4 February 2007 - 6 out of 8 users found this review helpful.
I saw this for the first time when I was about 13 and the memory of it, and my reaction to it, have remained with me ever since. The interplay between the characters is excellent, and the sense of blurred boundary between 'normal' and 'odd' is excellent.
Frau Messner is engaging and hypnotic. You can see how he gets pulled into her slightly disturbed world.
A film that on the surface is just about people making polite conversation on a train journey turns into a statement on the lonely emptiness of life, of the desperation of people for human company, and of the strangeness of ordinary people.
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