![]() They two men often act like a (gay) couple, especially in their disputes. I loved the homoerotic undertones of the Barrett-Tony relationship, especially in the second half of the film, after Barrett's return. Sarah Miles tried everything to bring life to her rather cartoonish character, though she never could make me understand how Tony could be so sexually attracted to a woman like her in the first place. ![]() The supporting actors were also good, notably James Fox. His body language, shifting from servile to casual, menacing or frivolous is meticulously developed and executed. (Though the real motives of his deeds do not become completely clear in the story - but this makes him probably even scarier.) Dirk Bogarde was just wonderful. In "The Servant", a similar relationship is twisted in a much darker way: Hugo Barrett is not at all the faithful servant devoted to his master - though he appears to be at the beginning -, but a scheming, quite evil person who knows very well what he wants. Wodehouse's hilarious series of comic novels about the perfect butler Jeeves and his 'master' 'Bertie' Wooster, a young, superficial, and careless dandy who could not make one step without Jeeves constantly caring for him. The characters itself could have been taken from P. Though I would not consider it as being flawless, it is a very interesting and indeed memorable piece of British cinema. "The Servant" was a film I had to think a lot about.
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