What was that scene all about between Goodchild (Bryan Pringle) & Furnace (Jared Harris) when they were in the public lavatory together? Was the recently widowed older man "hitting on" him or something & what relevance did this subplot have at all?
shareHe was basically just being a weirdo as I far as I could make out....it was a little odd....probably just a bit of comedy aimed at small village types....
shareI don't know if anyone's still reading this thread but this movie's been in my mind again recently. To answer your question, I would say that what we have here is a woman with a pretty wild imagination. I think that the scene you mention is one of a few that happened only in Beatrice's mind while she was watching (or suffering through) the cricket match near the end of the movie. A couple of other scenes of the same type would be the lunchtime jewelry heist, the beating up of the troublesome schoolboy, maybe even the whole trip to Paris? Maybe the entire movie till the end of the match? The scene where she is pretending to shoot at the fighter jets, and the story she tells about another cricket-watching wife (obviously invented) are clues here. After the cricket match, she seems to be attempting a Northern English accent - not sure if that's an attempt to sound totally British, not Italian at all? Like I said, this movie's been in my mind again after the current release of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Just wondering if anyone else sees it this way?
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