Magazine Article

The Swift End

The short Film Nor film 'The Swift end' is a film filled with excitement and mystery for the viewers, with a climax at the end leaving us (the audience) to ask questions as to who, what, where and why? In this we see actors Anil Sidhu, Adam Orton, Becca Varley, and Charlie Rodgers with possibly the performance of their lifetime careers along with Director Scott Taylor succeeding again with another amazing short film, this time in the Film Noir genre.

*SPOILER ALERT*

In this short film, we see Charlie Rodgerr as the Solicitor(arranging where Mr Ropers money will go, once he dies) who is having a performance of a lifetime, dressed in a finely fitted designer suit. We meet the character, Clive Swift, in the first scene of the film where we see the character take the long walk up towards the newly built household of the Roper family. He is greeted at the door by the seductive, flirtatious and manipulating younger wife of Mr Roper. Matilda. Once Clive has finished finalising the details of Mr Ropers will, Mrs Roper is left 'hurt' and 'upset' after finding out the will proceedings of Mr Roper has all been left to his son, without a mention of her name at all. She tries her best to seduce Mr Roper (Charlie Rodgers) into putting her name on the will instead of his sons when they are left alone in the kitchen, but her attempts shatter before her eyes,  as she fails to change Clive's mind about tampering with the will.

However as time passes, Clive begins to overthink and allow his emotions to overwhelm him, resulting in him calling Mrs Roper to discuss the plan of action, to kill Mr Roper and change his will. Later that day, Clive is to turn up to the Roper household to sneak in and murder Mr Roper, it is clear that Clive had been reeled in and manipulated by the seduction of Mrs Roper.

Once the murder of Mr Roper is made clear, a slow painful suffocation death for Mr Roper, we are introduced to the blunt, stocky detective Nigel Montjoy who shows little emotion or sentiment for the death of Mr Roper. After a shifty swift confrontation between both Nigel and Clive on a park bench, where it is immensely quiet, Clive Swift is anxious and has to leave suspiciously as Nigel begins questioning him about the Roper families Will. 

In the final scene, It is seen that Clive is waiting for somebody. But who? Who is he waiting for so impatiently? Mrs Roper? Nigel Montjoy? However, before we find out. Bang. Clive is shot dead, the killer unseen. This leaves us with so many questions. Who was he waiting for? Who shot Clive? Mrs Roper after seeing he was having second thoughts? Nigel Montjoy, taking the law into his own hands? I guess we'll never know!