THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS
Why did ella invite her sister on board and let her go to the cinema with joe ? It seems to me that she intentionally tried to get rid of joe by putting temptation in his way . How did ella know they had sex ?
When he met kathy on the beach was that actually the 1st time they met ?
Joe was a pretty lousy artist to be honest - His attempt to travel the world ended on a edinburgh to glasgow barge ! he could walk through life without making any impression or engaging with life which seemed to be his idea of what an artist should be, yet he could only connect to people via sex and even then it had to be dishonest and in cathys case destructive. Even he realised that psychodrama had to end - he was actually tender with her and honestly didnt mean her any harm .
He just couldnt quite free himself entirely from people because the artist needs to be around life . Im not sure joe realises this in the end. The film was an excellent study of guilt and responsibility - joe throwing the mirror into the sea where kathy drowned was symbolic , realising his guilt was pointless,futile and freeing himself completely .
A very sad powerful film , certainly one of the best british films of recent years (and what a soundtrack)