BETRAYAL
Directed by David Jones
Screenplay by Harold Pinter
"I've always liked Jerry. To be honest, I've always liked him rather more than I've liked you."
The speaker is Robert. The listener is his wife Emma (as in Bovary?). The subject under discussion is his best friend, who he has just discovered has been having an affair with Emma these many years. It is not bitterness that dictates Robert's tone. He is, as he says, telling the exact truth. For he is the sort of modern man, up on the literature (and the movies and...
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