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Everetts Wilde suggests Falstaff laid low by rejection and the chimes at midnight.

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That said, Wilde doesnt need to be yoked with Shakespeare for additional luster.

Wildean is sufficiently titanic, and Everett does him justice.

Its surely what Wilde would have been thinking of at that awful moment.

In his directorial debut, Everett takes his inspiration from the characters inner state.

The coast of France is surveyed from the vantage of a deeply brutalized soul.

The moments before Wildes collapse at a raucous tavern while drunkenly warbling a satiric ditty are heady and delirious.

Bosie (Colin Morgan).

This is where the movies title comes in.

The final scenes do convey something more far-reaching.

One of us has got to go.