Semiotics plays a big part in this movie. These color and film editing techniques help to keep the storyline from getting unmanageably tangled and add a pervasive element of semiotic beauty to the film. There are color cues in the film which help to sort the various locations and decades: Blue is the predominant color of 1960’s, England tropical colors and Indian music accompany the 1930’s India segments sepia tones match the national and personal hardships the English encountered in the war years of the 1940’s. Exceptionally skillful video editing and flashbacks braid the time elements in the film seamlessly so that the viewer is almost unaware of the shift from one time period to another and one country to another. The time frame for the movie is primarily the 1940’s into the1960’s in England, but a portion of the story is placed in the late 1930’s in India. Alison, who resists all suggestions of Alec’s unfaithfulness, is determined to search for proof that she was Alec’s real wife, that he loved her and their sons and had told her the truth about his work in British intelligence. Thus begins this tale of subterfuge, confusion, pursuit and discovery. Alison then conjures up a story about “a horrible cousin” when her son asks who had come to the door. She says to Alison, “You must be the housekeeper.” Alison, insulted and incredulous, informs the woman it is she, Alison, who is Alec’s wife, that Gladys is delusional, and she shuts the door in Gladys’ face. One visitor who calls at the front door gives Allison a tremendous shock when she does not offer her sympathy but announces that her name is Mrs. Soon we see gifts of food arrive at the home from those who wish to pay their respects. When Alison realizes Alec is dead, she contacts their parish priest, Father Timothy, who comes to the house to comfort Alison and her son. Alec has collapsed at their home in Ealing, a district of west London. The story takes place primarily in London and opens in the 1960’s with the death of Alexander Wilson (played by Iain Glen), Ruth’s husband of twenty years. Wilson boasts an astonishing bit of casting: the main character is portrayed by Ruth Wilson, Mrs. Wilson (scriptwriter Anna Symon) is based on the true story of Alison McKelvie Wilson’s life of love, duplicity and betrayal in Britain during and after World War II. Wilson is a PBS Masterpiece three-part mini-series which aired during the early spring of this year.
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