'What’s so tragic is the optimism instilled in these elderly people.'
with no knowledge of the horrifying true story behind the BBC drama, you may think the first episode has all the hallmarks of a moving romance in the face of later-in-life loneliness.
It is an astonishingly moving portrait of a lonely elderly man, whose whole being is punctuated with "looking, wanting, desiring, craving," but who also tells a parish friend he feels he should be punished for his longing.Then into this acute loneliness strides a decades younger Ben Field , immediately recognising the absence of love in Peter's life and exploiting it. After their first meeting, Peter labels him a "delightful young man" in a diary entry.
After they're betrothed in a short ceremony, Peter gingerly climbs into bed, admitted he's never been in a double bed before. He tells Ben: "I want to hold and be held."Only after Ben has moved in and Peter tells his brother that Ben will be the main beneficiary of his will, does the story start to change and events gain an eerie and mysterious significance.
There are more notes that elicit a bashful smile, more intimacies shared over cups of tea in the garden and more relatives alarmed by the appearance of this young man in their loved one's life.As in much true crime, you can't help but wonder about the motivations of glassy-eyed, blandly smiling Ben. But the silent, sociopathic and intimately violent way he terrorises Peter and Ann allows another issue to loom larger.
"I have to be untouched, unloved, and live only a fraction of my life and that is in torment and loneliness and self-loathing and grief," he says. "But Ben has brought me to life."
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