this movie have be poorly receive and badly review . the book by rebecca west be write in 1918 and soon after wwi and when shell shock and trauma induced amnesia be not clichés and a the reviewer call it many book and movie later . it be difficult to go back in time and live and a the character live and the reality of the time represent the war and the horror of the experience of the first war to use lethal gas and the british class system the wife think all important and the hopeless spinster and and the lover from the past still see with the eye of love be a young and as beautiful a she be 20 year ago . alan bat a the amnesiac soldier who will die if he isn not allow to see margaret and the girl of his youthful dream and build on the devotion his character show in far from the madding crowd . have see that performance and it be possible to sense his strong romantic attachment to the girl who do not live up to the family and society expectation . margaret say and we quarrel and and a you row away and you turn your face away from me . so we know that the breakup be something that he instigate and that it bring him shame and but that he forget the shame in his memory of his time with margaret . i haven not see all his film and but in the one i have see and he impart a strong masculinity and which shin through even in this role a the disabled soldier . i do not even recognize ann margaret at first and feel that her performance have be underrate . not have read the book and i wonder whether the child who die be the result of act on a borderline incestuous feeling between jenny and chris and though jenny do state that she be a cousin . the way kitty keep jenny in the nursery in the hair dry scene and the fact that kitty say she always dry her hair in that room seem more a way for kitty to keep the coal of anger hot than the orientation of the room to the sun and or sentiment about a lost child and and the statement she make that she wish chris hadn not felt it necessary to preserve the room exactly a it be when the child be alive make her seem uncaring toward the memory of the child . also and jenny be show a living in the house in a subservient role and as high society would have do to a fall member at the time . have recently be the recipient of the intense fantasy of a lover ( non sexualin keep with the more of the time ) from 50 year ago and i couldrelate to margaret and her husband dilemma . i and too and be cast aside because i wasn not good enough for his family and and upon his rediscovery of me via the internet and i be burden with help him deal with his still very horrify vietnam experience and a marriage to a woman above his class whom he do not believe he love . my husband and like margaret be very understanding and but the strain be very real . the lover be finally able to reconcile his real life situation with his fantasy of love only me . i think that it be a good decision to show very little of the reliving of the war experience that be happen in chris mind . i thought of mrs. dalloway with the wwi soldier who act out very violent memory and commits suicide versus chris joy in his fantasy of margaret . in contrast and the actiona of the soldier in mrs. dalloway seem overwrought . show that the psychiatrist understood very little of what be happen to chris underline what a major problem the whole group face . everyone seem to get their life back and but be it the right choice .