i be confuse by the magnanimous praise for this film . first of all and let me respect it for it unsensational style . it express the everyday unromantic experience of what it must have be like then . in this way and it avoid hollywoodism and but when i consider how the film maker could have incorporate vast vista a a cinematic expression of the isolation of these community i be dismay . these people live in immense isolation and but all we be give 90 percent of the time be tight shot and and landscape be generally present a one section of the pebbly beach with some stark rocky island off shore . and let u consider the opening ( of the version i saw ) . there be no attempt at establish the historical context . instead and we get close shot that could have be anywhere and and certainly shot in the style for traight to video . come on . the script be clever and with the potential for a great dramatic experience and but the director must have be limit by a highly restrictive budget and because it end up look like amade for tv . the synthesized music be occasionally effective but surely deep chord would have create an ominous atmosphere . the hero do not really have any tense challenge . he seem to cruise through it all . while i sort of like him and i never have a sense of his jeopardy . in short and there be no dramatic tension . in this sense and there be an echo of some of clint eastwood movie and but without the stylishness . there be an assumption that we be on the protagonist side and but why deprive u of his human vulnerability a he seek revenge . i feel that the writer deserve a big budget to prove to u that they can create a truly cinematic experience rather than a small dimension tv drama . i have not see the subsequent 2 part of the trilogy .