this be a very engaging film about a guy who murder his cheat wife and then be release from prison 8 year later . you really find yourself root for him especially when he meet and save the life of a lady . you really want them to get together and . the problem be and he be so afraid to open up to people that he distance himself from her and choose to confide more in his pet eel . it seem that if he do connect to someone on a deep level and he afraid he might kill again though he be clearly a decent person who snap one time in his life and only after be push . it a great character study and the acting and direction be marvelous with a few lapse here and there . what do not i like . well and it isn not so much the acting that the problem and but the script . repeatedly and flashback and psychotic like hallucination occur . they tend to muddle the basic message and confuse the plot . without these and without the large amount of blood in the murder scene and this would have get a rating of 9 or even 10 .