Chance In A Million's elaborate
join-the-dots plot construction (in which every implausible action has a
logical reaction, sometimes several scenes on) sometimes impresses me more than
it amuses me. I found the simplest things in this episode to be the most
enjoyable ones - Tom's handling of the tricks in his Paul Daniels magic set
(the first prize that he wins on his unlucky lucky day), and a well-worked
sequence where Tom helps a woman in the street with her box of groceries and
ends up helping an identically-dressed lady to unintentionally steal them. The
latter is an OB sequence on a rainy West London street, achieved without dialogue
or sound in one fluid shot, filmed overhead from the other side of
the road - something that could have worked in the earliest days of the moving
image.
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