Gerald Ballantyne (played by Antony Sher) is a protagonist in Home.
The protagonist, a middle-class man who isolates himself in his house, destroys his furniture, and descends into paranoia. As resources dwindle, he consumes non-food items and animals, kills a television repossession agent and a concerned friend, and ultimately encases himself and his friend in a freezer while experiencing hallucinatory spatial distortions. Paula Goddard (played by Matilda Ziegler) appears in Home.
A concerned friend who breaks into Gerald's isolated house to check on him. Her intrusion leads to her tragic death at Gerald's hands, after which he places her body in a freezer and climbs in behind it. Margaret Ballantyne (played by Deborah Findlay) appears in Home.
Repo Man (played by Keith Allen) appears in Home.
A man sent to reclaim a television from Gerald's house. He insists on entering to cut off the cable connecting the video camera to the TV, which provokes Gerald into killing him. Martin (played by Guy Henry) appears in Home.
Policeman (played by Simon Nagra) appears in Home.
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Characters
Gerald Ballantyne
(played by Antony Sher) — protagonist
The protagonist, a middle-class man who isolates himself in his house, destroys his furniture, and descends into paranoia. As resources dwindle, he consumes non-food items and animals, kills a televis...
Paula Goddard
(played by Matilda Ziegler) — supporting
A concerned friend who breaks into Gerald's isolated house to check on him. Her intrusion leads to her tragic death at Gerald's hands, after which he places her body in a freezer and climbs in behind...
Margaret Ballantyne
(played by Deborah Findlay) — supporting
Repo Man
(played by Keith Allen) — supporting
A man sent to reclaim a television from Gerald's house. He insists on entering to cut off the cable connecting the video camera to the TV, which provokes Gerald into killing him.
Martin
(played by Guy Henry) — supporting
Policeman
(played by Simon Nagra) — supporting
Story Analysis
A middle-class man's psychological descent into isolation and madness after sealing himself in his house.
