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Outclassed in a battle of wits against his ‘nemesis’ Richmond, Essex wideboy Corbis attempts to trade a mysterious unopenable case supposedly containing “one hundred million” for Richmond’s greatest possession – his wife.
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The film opens in the house of Richmond. Brooding and menacing for some reason Richmond has let Essex wide boy Corbis into his house at 2 o’clock in the morning despite the fact he has never met him and comes totally uninvited. Corbis relates the tale of a briefcase, enigmatic for the simple reason it cannot be opened, but it’s value increasing with every sentence of Corbis’ story as we trace its journey over the evening from its initial appearance chained to the wrist of a man suffering a fatal heart attack in the back of a minicab, to how Corbis comes now to hold the case through a mixture of craftiness and deceit. Southend has been closed off by the Police and the Military in their hunt for the case giving some credence to Corbis’ story and its value, stated simplistically in the last dying words of the man in the cab as being “one hundred million”. Corbis’ motive in telling the tale is the simple salesman’s technique of establishing the worth of the product before declaring the price, and the price is high, not in a monetary sense but in terms of the god-like possessive man that Richmond imagines himself to be – it’s his wife Colette. As the story of the case has been told we’ve seen flashbacks to the relationship with her has made Corbis almost inadvertently fails in love. Alluring and attractive Colette is no victim but herself another player. Corbis has dared to enter Richmond’s arena to buy her out, little knowing that he’s already been betrayed – Colette gives recorded details of all her various lovers to her husband not as a spy but to sadistically torture him. Corbis’ reality is becoming more fragile with every step; Richmond is much more than he imagined; Colette seems as vicious as she is beautiful and the military are slowly closing the net. In the end can a deal ever be struck? And in the end just what is it that lurks inside the case?
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