Good and evil are transformed into each other. Because "good" is often paranoid, and in paranoia there is no evil. The story comes from this obsessive Catholic father who was arrested and imprisoned for life after a serial murder. Michelle was ostracized by mainstream society (police, media, school), despite her separation from her father. As you can imagine, resentment (the absence of a father), loneliness, cynicism, toughness and aggressiveness, conceit, and her own way are the main themes of her growth. When designing games, she is firm and unequivocal; when raped, she is calm and guarded against; she is a generous giver to her mother and son; compared to her ex-husband, she is a strong and rational party. Her sex life is similarly self-contained: "Shame isn't strong enough to stop us from doing anything". She had sex with her best friend and her best friend's husband at the same time; she teased Patrick at the dinner table, peeped at Patrick while masturbating; her masochistic tendency was awakened by being raped, and after that, she seemed passive and resistant, but she was actually active and seductive. Like Michelle's father, Patrick is also a Catholic, a bank clerk, and a well-mannered gentleman; but the strictest teachings and moral taboos, the deepest sense of morality and shame, can only make sexual fantasies and behaviors more exciting and metamorphosis. He's a sadist, wearing a hood to create an atmosphere of terror, raping and beating Michelle, which gives him great satisfaction, but also great moral torture afterwards. In the basement episode, Michelle, who had been awakened to masochistic tendencies, lay down and asked him to enter, but he was unable to do so, with a certain "frustration" that "the masochist, not the abuser, The real master of the game." In the end, Patrick was killed, ending his life of self-torture. After Patrick's death, his wife Rebecca said to Michelle: He was a good man, but he was tortured by his soul; thank Michelle, at least she once satisfied him. For the wife, because of her faith, she was able to get through this difficult time, and because of her faith, no matter what sinful fantasies and behaviors her husband had, she was willing to tolerate him, wait for him, and redeem him; the wife was glowing with the light of faith. Perhaps touched by Rebecca, Michelle finally came to her father's cemetery. She must have forgiven Patrick and her own father. At the end of the story, Rebecca firmly believes in God's redemption, while Michelle still does her own way like a witch; one is a Catholic French woman, the other is a revolutionary and atheist French woman. Divinity and magic, probably this is the spirit of France!
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