The case itself is really good. The real culprit has been unraveling the mystery. Due to the extremely complicated psychology of the key characters, I feel that even the final confession of the prisoner is suspicious. (Did you really kill? You are not taking the blame for others, are you? Like that glass, saying that you can wash yourself is deliberately confusing people?) Because the motives of this woman's series of actions make me think Contradictions: I want to be acquitted but I can't let my lawyer exonerate myself; I want to take revenge on my lover but I don't want him to take the blame.
I personally prefer this kind of depiction of extreme immoral feelings. Excellent directors and screenwriters are enough to approve modern people's concept of love. On the other hand, the lawyer's own love, which should be regarded as the generally accepted view of love in the play, seems so weak in comparison.
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