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In the book, what goes through Septimus' head retains its power to startle--not so much for what he remembers as for how his remembrances color the present and pierce its surface like an X-ray.
The movie's Septimus never seems more than a literary conceit, and only in his fleeting moments of sanity does Graves acquire a mordant poignancy.
Woolf provides a nightmarish echo to Mrs. Dalloway in Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), an ex-soldier who has had the misfortune of witnessing a buddy being blown to bits in front of his eyes.
Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus never meet, but Gorris brings them in sight of each other at the start of the film; and news of Septimus' fate triggers Mrs. Dalloway's tortured and then euphoric final musings--the epiphany that brings the movie to its poetic conclusion.
It turns out that we stay with her so she can gaze, in passing, at an apartment house--so that the camera can travel up to and through a window and come upon Septimus supine on a sofa, contemplating--what?