have be familiar with hartley the go between for a good while and both in it original book form and in it disappointing pinter losey film adaptation and this be interesting stuff . the hireling prove almost a mirror image at time while set in a slightly less distant period for the main part and featuring exposure of the british class system and and contain a set piece sport match ( box take the place of cricket ) that reveal rather a lot about . this refresh in it small scale and character focus . you do not exactly get to know lady franklin and leadbitter in the novelistic sense and but this distance be appropriately play out in tell body language and inflection from the actor . your distance from ever fully sympathize with any one true character mirror the dormant wouldifference that so doom the central relationship . mile and shaw be wonderfully subtle and and we see more in their less while never once be these actorly and showy performance . they be fittingly stanislavskian interpretation that create the impression of these character have life outside the confines of the film . all other part be very satisfactorily handle and though they be far small in this film than i presume in the novel and compare indeed to the go between and a stunning work about disillusionment . the disillusion at the centre of this film be so sadly and movingly convey in the late scene where shaw kiss mile and be reject and and then where a drunken leadbitter confronts cantrip and lady franklin . it a howl shame that what would have be an incredibly poignant end of spoil and desolate life at either side of the screen and be embellish with a decidedly odd little coda . one be entirely bemuse by the jump in tone and a shaw leadbitter go beserk and ironically sings rule britannia and god save the queen a he crash his car into thing . the political point be heavily over egg by this bombastic and rather dingily operatic end . all sense of subtlety and so effectively convey hitherto and be lose and a the implicit point be heavily and noisily make . agit prop surely have no place in this sort of delicate period drama . overall and however and one can not be too harsh . while this absurd end piece be a major flaw and the rest of the film must be praise a a sensitive and evocative film and of sadness and detailed observation about the way british society be in the past . hartley languid but crystal clear touch be very much in evidence throughout . it just a shame that we do not end on the shatter conclusion to shaw drunk scene . the tragic and deluded figure of sarah mile lady franklin be abruptly deny her place at the epicenter of the film and a the excellent human drama bizarrely slip into the realm of political point score . shaw also that most dry and yet deeply feeling of actor be betray by the out of character excess that close the film . thus while a fine and small scale triumph be sabotage while but we ought to remember the many good point . rating represent half or .