Is this Obviously Evil enough for you?
- The entire concept of the story can be considered this. The story of corruption and redemption involved a rustic farmer in a romanticized rural town.
- The man became crazed and corrupted when he fell prey to the seductive wiles of the woman and tempting mistress in an illicit affair.
- Everything about The Woman From the City. She appears as a dark, bobbed-haired, sophisticated urban vamp who rented a room in one of the country houses. She wears a slinky black dress with shiny high-heeled shoes and stockings, and was continually tempting the man and ruining him complete with a subtitle card saying: "Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city."
- She and the man regularly met in the darkness of midnight under a gigantic full moon which reflected on the water and shone through the haze. The dazed, guilt-ridden but bewitched husband was in sexual thrall to the passionate city woman. He stealthily trudged from his home to secretly meet and conspire with his tempting mistress on the edge of the misty, moonlit marshes. The man couldn't help but fall for her attractiveness and obey her commands, they she literally pulled him down into the swamp.
- The fact that she tried to get the man to kill his wife by drowning him, then the boat would be overturned to make it seem like an accident.
- "Couldn't she be drowned?" Complete with the words melting and sliding down the screen as if they were actually drowning.
- When the man determinedly rowed the boat hunkered down and stern-faced without looking across at his wife. Halfway across, the wife's coquettish smile slowly faded to sadness and fear as she suddenly realized something was up with her troubled husband. When he stopped rowing, he appeared deranged and walked toward her like a monstrous figure. When the man stood up and lumbered toward her with plodding steps in the boat, he was ready to throw his wife overboard and drown her. Then when the man stopped himself from killing her, a loud bell rang to symbolize the moment when he changed his mind. Pretty impressive for the late 20s. That fact the music changed to represent how scary things were getting doesn't help.
- Even though the man stopped himself at the last minute, his wife understandably ran away from the man, because she thought he would continue trying to kill him.
- The sudden storm the occurs the second time the duo goes sailing, the man had difficulty rowing, and unlike the first time, the wife wasn't protected at the last minute, she got lost in the storm and nearly drowned for real. The man had no idea a storm would occur and didn't bring any proper equipment to protect themselves. The fact that the woman survived was of sheer luck.
