Hmm. so you have a sleeping disorder. This film is guaranteed to cure it.
Gosford park is about some aristocratic English snobs who live in a big house for a few days for a hunt. There is an entire hour showing scenes of people walking about, sipping tea, shooting birds, and more walking about. They all talk some very strange dialect of English, which even the English won’t follow. You do get bits of information here and there, but nothing that makes any relevant sense. Nobody faces the camera throughout film, so you never get to know who is who.
I tried hard to like this film. but there was no help from the story or the actors. This film was reviewed by many good reviewers in international dailies as a remarkable film. It was classified at the video library under two classifications. Mystery and Drama. Do not be misled, you won’t find any of those in this film. Yes a guy does gets killed in the film. And a clown dressed up as a detective tries to make a laughable impression of Hercule Poirot.
Since there is absolutely no efforts made to make the audience understand what’s going on, I guess its perfectly all right if you didn’t like this film.
I had to endure this two hour torture, just to see what the juries at the Academy Awards saw in this movie to even nominate it for `Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published’. Let me remind you that Lord of the Ring was also nominated for the same category. To even compare J.R.R. Tolkien’s work to this piece of trash is unthinkable.
I would strongly recommend this film to anyone who suffers from severe insomnia.