It seems, however, that Smith was talked out of showing the more graphic elements. "I always wanted to show [the crime] because I thought it would offer a different dynamic visually, the heath and water, there’s a great story in it, where these two boys take this girl up to a heath and they both kiss her and then one bites her and then the other one bites her. I was interested in the visceral brutality and it could have been quite handheld and right in there with it. I’ll never know if it would be a better film with it in or not.”