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title.
Soothing jazz blared, wobbly and drowsy. A woman drives a car, slowly slipping into memory with the music.
In those broken images, there are ordinary town street scenes, pig farms with a strong smell, blood dripping thickly on hooks, wire fences, spiders hunting for food, and men and women dancing pas de deux. , and a smiling girl.
Everything seems to imply something.
This is the world of "Sharp Tool".
I am the head of the group and the narrator of this story.
In the next two months, let us walk into this story that wanders between reality and the past, to explore the secrets in our hearts.
1 Beginning
As if continuing the title, the beginning of the story also begins with a dream.
In the summer sun, two girls slid across the street on roller skates.
They are two sisters, but they look very different. My sister has short hair, a T-shirt and short jeans, like a tomboy. The younger sister has two braids and wears a floral doll dress, like a little princess.
The two happily enjoyed their free moments, the only conversation being about their mother.
"Will Mom find out?"
"Better not."
The two sneaked home, which was a big house in a large garden.
On the first floor, my mother was busy in the kitchen and my father was in the living room, no one noticed them. The two crept up to the second floor and slipped into a room.
On the bed, a woman is fast asleep. The two approached quietly, and the elder sister broke apart a paper clip, took the woman's hand lightly, and poked it hard with the tip of the needle.
The woman woke up, and the two little girls disappeared.
2 Camille
The woman who woke up was called Camille , the protagonist of this story, and a journalist by profession.
On this day, the editor-in-chief Curry arranged for her a business trip and asked her to return to her hometown of Fengkou Town to track and report a murder of a girl. Camille refused, and it was obvious that she was very resistant to that place.
But Curry did both hard and soft, and Camille finally had to agree.
When I got home, I packed up my luggage and drove off. Along the way, Camille continued to smoke and drink, and the music did not stop until night fell. He finally came to Fengkou Town.
But instead of going home, she chose to live in a roadside hotel.
The food bag she brought with her was almost full of wine. She started to organize the wine and the mineral water bottle that contained the wine. The rest didn't seem to be important.
Putting bath water in the bathroom, she turned to see the stains on the toilet, and she resisted the urge to wash them off.
Looking away at the mirror, what appeared in the mirror was another girl's face.
I can finally take a good bath. Camille emptied bottle after bottle, arranging the bottles and caps neatly by the tub.
Then, sink into the water.
When he raised his head again, it was back to that summer, and the little girl with short hair was startled from the river. It turned out that she was Camille when she was a child.
Little Camille found a cabin in the woods, full of bloody stuffed animals, and a lot of pornographic photos on the glass. All of this was a huge stimulus to her when she was young.
3 mothers
The next day, Camille went to work. First, I visited the police station, and then followed the search and rescue team to find the missing little girl, hoping to hear some news.
It's been a busy day, running around. Familiar streets, familiar people, and fragments of memories in my mind also follow, and are always aroused.
At night, Camille wanted to stay in the hotel, but knew it was impossible, so he drove home. In the car, she took a few gulps, then put on lipstick to make herself look less bad (the word "DIRTY" written on the red bonnet flashed in her mind), and ended up with a fresh breath of candy , finally drove through the gate.
The house is still the big, familiar house.
Camille sat in front of the porch, remembering the time when he was with his sister. When they talked about death, little Camille was angry, and her sister was not allowed to talk about death, and her sister was scared away by her suddenly angry sister.
He got up and knocked on the door, and a woman greeted him. Blonde, wearing a long pink pajama dress, looking rather youthful.
That was her mother, Aldora . Seeing Camille, her mother looked a little panicked, and she opened her mouth and asked: Is there something important?
As if nothing important, she shouldn't be here.
Next question: If the family is not prepared, I am afraid that they will not greet the guests well.
So, the daughter is her guest?
Continue: What would you like to drink? Where are you going to live?
Camille responded awkwardly.
A series of conversations after the meeting brought to light the strange relationship between the mother and daughter. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Camille is reluctant to go home.
Camille lay in his old bed, memories flooding back into his mind. This time, she remembered the scene when her sister fell ill.
She couldn't stay in this room any longer, she fled as if to flee, and drove to the bar. She needs wine, lots and lots of wine. After getting drunk, I slept in the car all night.
When I got home the next morning, my mother was really angry and told her to take care of herself and not let her lose face. Camille argues first, then relents. In front of her mother, she always seemed so unconfident.
4 cases
In August last year, people in the town found the body of the little girl Ann by the creek . She was strangled.
Now, another girl, Natalie , is missing.
The first case has not been resolved, and the second one has come again. The police are very busy.
Camille tried to inquire about the news from Sheriff Vickery, but the other party refused to reveal any information about the missing girl Natalie, and only briefly informed Ann of the situation.
At the bar, Camille tried to speak to Natalie's brother John , but was stopped by Detective Wells . He was a detective from Kansas for support.
After that, Camille went to interview Ann's father and learned that Ann is a willful, naughty and smart girl with her own opinions.
Not long after the interview, Natalie's body was found by an elderly couple in a street alley. Camille happened to be near the scene at the time, and the little girl's body once again stimulated the memory deep in her mind.
When she returned home after taking notes at the police station, her mother questioned her about interviewing Ann's father, believing that she was adding to the suffering of the victim's family by reporting these contents.
They disagree, again.
At this moment, a girl came downstairs and interrupted their quarrel.
5 Emma
The girl 's name is Emma, Camille's half-sister.
In fact, she had already met Camille before.
Outside the search-and-rescue woods, she smoked with friends on the side of the road, and gave Camille directions; in the town square, Camille stopped them from playing with the souvenirs given to the deceased Ann, and when she found Natalie's body, she Also present.
But Emma outside and she at home seem to be two people. Emma outside would wear sexy clothes and play wildly with her friends, while at home she would dress up like a quiet lady.
So she is the sister in Camille's memory? No, no, age mismatch.
Emma was friendly to Camille and showed her the doll house she built, saying it was her fantasy.
Looking at the model doll house that was almost identical to theirs, Camille looked different. On the other hand, the mother, who watched the two sisters live in harmony, looked kind and satisfied.
Emma took Camille upstairs and stopped at the door of a room. There used to be Marianne 's room.
They started talking about Marianne, about their mother. Marianne is the girl in Camille's memory. She is Camille's other sister and her mother's favorite.
Camille always thought that her mother hated him and felt hopeless, but Emma's answer was intriguing.
Camille's mind has always been the appearance of Natalie after her death, just like Marianne back then.
She couldn't help opening the door, and all of a sudden she went back to Marianne's funeral. Little Camille didn't seem to be able to believe it was true, and wanted to wipe off Marianne's lipstick like a madman - the one who was lying in the little coffin with makeup like a doll.
In front of her eyes, Marianne's room, as always, is a pink princess room. Flower wallpaper, pink curtains, and lots of dolls. The bed was a hospital bed, with a princess dress on it and an infusion stand next to it.
Camille felt like she needed a break, a good rest. In the bathroom, she had wine and music ready, and lay in the bathtub, ready to take a comfortable soak.
Under the transpiration of hot water, the pink and scary scratches all over her body were hard to ignore. Looking closer to the arm, there is a lettering - VANISH.
disappear. Just want to disappear.
6 Some speculation
I don't know if everyone feels the same as the head of the group, but watching this story will make people feel dazed. Reality for a while, memory for a while, back and forth, hard to prevent.
Just like the protagonist Camille, she doesn't seem to be truly awake for a moment, drinking day and night, and music must be roaring in her ears when she is alone. Clearly, she was avoiding situations that she couldn't resolve, which should have something to do with her childhood experiences.
This is reflected in the story through a lot of flashbacks. Among these fragments, Marian was present most of the time. There are also some whose meaning is not clear at present, such as the exhaust fan and the blurred back of the woman.
In the last part, Camille's dense nicks are also thought-provoking. Those words must have been inscribed on purpose.
So, who would do it? Someone else, or herself?
The dream at the very beginning actually had a hint that she should be the one who did it.
A few conversations between editor-in-chief Curry and her wife, Erin, can also give us some clues. He deliberately arranged for Camille to go home and wanted her to have more contact with her family, but he was always worried about her state. Wife Erin also mentioned a psychiatrist.
Combining these details, the head of the regiment speculated that Camille must have a psychological problem: alcoholism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and once self-harm.
As for the factors that can affect her, we might as well look at her mother Aldora.
Although Odora's direct role is not much at present, it can definitely be a morbid image. She seems to be holding a wine glass at all times, pulling out her eyelashes whenever she is anxious, and she also has an excessive desire to control her daughter.
And there's Emma.
She is a good girl at home, but lawless outside (the sheriff scoffs when she mentions her). Smoking, playing around, not respecting the deceased, and joking around with souvenirs for Ann. After being discovered by Camille, he can still say some grand truth.
This little girl is definitely not an ordinary person.
Emma's two hugely different performances can just reflect the influence of Odora's desire to control from the side.
Under such control, in such a growing environment, whether Camille, Emma, or even the deceased Marian, their strange words and deeds seem to have traceable origins.
I just don't know, how deeply will this affect each of them? And does this family have anything to do with the murder of a girl in town?
Let's wait and see together with the leader.
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