The story follows top-cop Police
Constable Nicholas Angel and his relocation from London to the lovely village
of Sandford-Gloucestershire which has won countless Village-of-the-Year awards.
Angel is immediately promoted to Sergeant and makes an instant impact on his
arrival by arresting a group of young adults at the local pub who are “a month
or two south of proper,” and a drunk driver he soon finds out is part of his
new, bumbling police force, and his new partner. Not all is as it
appears to be in the quaint village and a series of unfortunate accidents might
be more than what they seem.
The
story unfolds in the third
person and we get to see things that the characters do not (i.e. Martin
Blower’s
and Eve Draper’s murder). Nicholas Angel is the implied narrator and as
the
movie goes on, we begin to see things as he sees them – more than just
coincidences. Time is presented linearly, except for the few flashbacks
describing the “accidents.” The movie is mostly classic in its nature as
the
conflict builds to a climax, but at the same time is realistic in the
sense
that it tries to show the reality of mundane tasks of being a police
office -
the filling out of paper work in transitions between scenes. The film
itself
shows that everything isn’t always as it appears to be. The story uses
lots of foreshadowing and mise-en-scène and gives lots of significant
visual clues to what is going on and what is going to happen while
paying homage to mystery films. This film has a Hitchcock-ian feel to
it.
Simon Pegg is a noted voice/actor (StarTrek, Paul, Ice Age, Band of Brothers, Spaced), writer, and producer. Edgar
Wright is a director and writer and has worked with Pegg on other projects
including Pegg's breakthrough role in Spaced.
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