The film is inspired by a true event in France in 1905, when a 17-year-old seminary student murdered a child and surrendered to the authorities, who were asked by the prosecution doctor to write about his experiences to analyze his kind. motivation for the behavior.
"Hid in a corner and masturbate on a loved one and then kill him. Open his chest and dig out his heart and take it away in memory of him." That's what Bruno Riedel was looking forward to getting pleasure and way of expressing love.
This film is a very good movie. The script itself is a very solid psychological analysis, and it slowly describes how the male protagonist is swallowed by desire step by step, until the inner black hole can no longer be filled by anything.
This film can be said to be a philosophical film, deconstructing the complexity of "human" existence from the perspective of divinity, human nature, and animal nature: enjoying and struggling in various desires such as erotic desire, sexual desire, possessive desire, etc. The cognitive analysis and comparison of the id finally completes the philosophical discussion on the existence of "human" by means of sin and redemption in religion.
There is no doubt that this is a work with a very complete narrative and logical convincing. The rhythm is slow but full of tension, the scenes are few but not boring, but rather rich. When it comes to themes, it's not so much the performance of the protagonist that it's scary, but the heart of a real person. In fact, any rhetoric that glorifies the heart is probably the temptation of the devil or the arrogance of God. Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander spring forth from the heart; In addition, the film makes it clear, or at least contains two profound truths: violence and lust often go hand in hand, and in terms of consequences, violence must be the final settlement of lust. And once lust (and greater temptation) becomes a snare for man, man will inevitably and spontaneously be dominated by it and fall into a greater downfall. Through the ages, it has never felt good. From these points of view, this exquisite work is enough to be praised.
