comparing to the turn of the screw, it was after all, more clear, vivid, and visible; literature does have the certain kind of vagueness or ambiguity to allow imagination to function unrestrainedly and fulfil its work for interpretation
Wells surely knows well how to construct the milieus and journeys shuttling between countries (will be walled soon) through his brilliant understanding of camera movement, how to conduct the emotions wrapped within personal and justificative conflicts. It is also a peculiar sociopolitical setup contradicting to a certain American-central-ism.