The opening scene with the interview drops a heavy hint that this is a marriage in trouble. Deliberately playing loud music, knowing full well that his wife is being interviewed. The alarm bells go off. I thought that this is someone who is jealous and or insecure about his wife's success. As the trial unfolds, we see that he failed to engage with his creative side, while his wife clearly did.
shareI honestly don't even understand how prosecution thought they would win case and put her in bad light with that recording.
It showed what a miserable a-hole he was. She sacrificed her happy life and moved from London to this house in mountains. Because he wanted. Then he chose to stay home and home school their son. Had his depression and felt sorry for himself. Could not write. Then started blaming her for feeling bad himself. Out of jealousy that she could write.
He kept and kept whining. Even recording her without her permission. People like that - you can't reason with them. No matter what you say and do - they will still blame everything on you and whine. And divorce in the only option. She really tried to reason with him on that recording. But he didn't want to listen.
I think it was an accident. He leaned and fell. It was no reason for her to kill him like that. And then let her son found him. And no reason for him to jump from the third floor to snow.
It is possible that it was an accident. However, I think he had given up and just kept blaming his wife for his problems. I think he saw suicide as his only option.
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