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Christmas Truce


            This film is surprisingly good. There is a sense of realism as well as a few good twists. Diana one of the main characters is talking to her sister in her wedding dress on the internet, when she hears a gunshot. Then another. You are led to the garage where there is film showing the murders of her father and her fiance Brian. The landscape gardener Louis is seen to lean over the body of her father. No gun in his hand, or any proof apart from the usual blood on hands and confused expression. Then it is five years since it happened. Diana still can't face the garage. She comes across as the archetypal spoilt little rich girl. She has buried herself in her grief and is surrounded by the protection of her brother Chris and her solicitor Martin. Then Louis who has been in prison for the murders as she puts it of the two people she loved most in her life escapes. Louis lets himself in with a gun and takes her hostage at gun point. After her hitting him in the face with the top off the toilet cistern (that would hurt) she tries to escape. Angry he ties her to the chair and Diana won't listen as she's blinded by hate. He holds up the picture of his daughter who is going to be adopted if he doesn't prove his innocence to her and she shows no emotion. He is pleading with her to listen and she refuses. She asks where it's going to end and you are left wondering where to next. She is kept overnight in the chair. The battle goes on, with tense interludes when the cleaners come to the house early in the morning. Louis keeps the gun and locks Diana's bedroom door, and as the cleaners knock you wonder what will happen next. The cleaners leave with Louis undiscovered. He tells her that her father was going to loan him some money for his business, and she says there's no proof. Louis implies that they had agreed on a simple handshake. He then proves that her solicitor/lawyer/attorney Martin was due to lose everything because her father had reneged on a deal. With his death Martin came out financially better off. Diana realises that through her grief and her brother and Martin telling her he was guilty that she never really questioned it could be anyone else. Then the door goes and it's two police officers informing Diana that a stolen car has been found a mile or so from her house and that Louis could have used it. He is hiding behind the door and Diana is trying to convince them everything is fine without letting them in. Eventually she invites them in making sure they know she is annoyed by this. They refuse and go away.
He starts to wear Diana down and then they look at the footage of the murders. He is unusually caring and knows that she is upset. He eventually convinces her to look and it finally sinks in something is very wrong. As the film plays on and the father falls after being shot her fiance Brian enters into the garage and Louis convinces her that he must know whoever shot the dad as he doesn't put his hands up. (ever heard of lip reading?) he speaks to the intruder who then shoots him dead. Then on further inspection they notice that Brian's phone is in his hand. As Louis tells her after they analyse the film further that in the CSI's report that Brian's phone was still collecting and sending data for three days after and was never found. Diana tells Louis that he sent her a text telling her how he couldn't wait to see her, and she is finally convinced now that he is telling the truth. They then look at the garage footage of the murders again and when they go to investigate they see the phone had gone down a little drainage duct in the floor. Diana is trying to take the screws out when someone turns up at the door. She is just retrieving the phone, when they see It is Martin the attorney and he comes in, as he enters Louis knocks him out from behind. When he comes to he is tied up in the chair and they start to question him. Diana asks him how come he never told her about her father turning him down for the loans for the deal he was working on. Meanwhile Brian's phone is charging and they are impatiently waiting for it to come on. Martin is pleading with her saying he doesn't know then all hell breaks loose as Diana's brother Chris turns up with his wife. A huge fist fight continues and Diana leaving poor Louis to fight with her brother and the wife sets Martin free who also attacks Louis. You think for a nanosecond they're working together. The fight carries on and Martin gets shot and goes down. Diana sees the film on Brian's phone and that it's him, her brother who killed their dad and her fiance. Chris screams at her how their father was going to give Louis a loan to help him out but had turned him down for the club he was running. He carries on telling her that the club was in serious debt and he owed some loan sharks and his dad refused to bail him out like he had his whole working life. He gets the gun and shoots, Louis and Diana run away and Chris shoots at them again hitting Diana in the shoulder They re running into the woods with Chris and his wife in hot pursuit. Diana is struggling with shock and at the same time is trying to send the video footage of Chris shooting his dad and Brian to the police server Eventually it goes and Louis is also shot down by Chris. He tells Diana to run for her life and he jumps Chris and is strangling him when the police turn up. Diana screams Louis is innocent as she thinks the police are going to shoot him. The police tell her the video was circulating around everywhere so they know that Louis is innocent. They get taken to ambulances and Diana looks on in disgust at her brother and his wife. Louis is somber in the ambulance and they are driven to hospital. Then it shows Diana able to leave her past behind and her going into the family business but back in charge after selling the house and all it's memories. You see Louis with his daughter smiling driving off together with just a loving smile between them. The End.
    

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