She’s also aware that there is something vacuous about the art game. Her gallery may be fashionable, but overhead is high and sales are low. The red heat of love and lust have long since faded to an unsatisfying shade of gray. He jets across the country cutting financial deals, but she has good reason to suspect infidelity. Her suave husband, Hutton (Armie Hammer), is often absent. Susan returns home to a troubled second marriage. She lives in a walled, gated mansion of cold hard surfaces and owns a white cube art gallery displaying ostensibly transgressive installations that no one looks at during the opening (the hors d’oeuvres and conversation are better). The scenes of Susan’s present-day life could have been organized on a runway with glamorous precision. Nocturnal Animals was adapted from Austin Wright’s novel by writer-director Tom Ford, probably the only name fashion designer with a parallel career in filmmaking. The blood on her finger foreshadows more to come through emotional bloodletting as well as the novel’s fictional bloodshed. The book is dedicated “To Susan” and Edward’s accompanying note claims her as its inspiration. Susan (Amy Adams) cuts her finger unwrapping an unexpected package from her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal) containing the manuscript of his forthcoming novel.
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