In an interview with Digital Trends, the cast and crew of SeeHowTheyRun talk how their film honors the English murder mystery genre.
The lights go out, a woman screams, and a loud thud breaks the silence. When the lights come on again, a dead body is revealed and a room full of shocked witnesses eye each other warily. Which one of them did it? That’s the premise of pretty much every murder mystery in the 20th century, and See How They Run, a new film starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, doesn’t stray too far from that formula.
Charlie Cooper: I’ve always loved murder mysteries, and the fact that it’s that, but also a comedy was what really drew me to the film, because it’s a hard thing to get right. We see a lot of straight-forward murder mysteries, but to have that suspense and combine it with laughs is just really appealing. And then having read the script, it was just superb — the whole tone of it and the colorful characters. Yeah, it was perfect.
On the one hand, this is a film set in 1953. It wants to feel like a fully realized version of 1950s London, but it also only works from a sort of modern viewpoint. It was clear there’s this contemporary thread running through the whole film tonally. I wanted to have this layer of awareness about the genre and the tropes of the genre and the way that these kinds of stories function, but that all needs to be built on solid foundations with relatable characters and a good story. It needed to work in its own right. Hopefully, that extra layer is exciting for fans of the genre or for people on a second watch-through.
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