Kanashimi no Belladonna, directed by Yamamoto Eiichi in 1973
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Sighhh something about Nesta and Jeanne and Belladonna of Sadness
Something about being pure, about marriage until it's ruined by something impure
About how it is the wife that gives the go ahead to Jeanne's rape, how it is the Cauldron, a tool of the Mother, that steals Nesta’s humanity and her body
How the devil appears, promising power, and Nesta’s silver flames, how Jeanne is engulfed by them
Belladonna, a beautiful woman
Belladonna, a woman in love
Something about Cassian and Jean, how they both cannot save the woman they love. How both Nesta and Jeanne return, forever changed, and in agony.
Cassian should have been more. Cassian shouldn't have been Tomas Mandray. He shouldn't have been that local lord.
How is it that sjm writes Nesta’s autonomy to be stripped away from her again in the end? To lose her power and her body once again, this time aided by the Mother?
I'm not even saying Cassian should have been Jean, in fact, in many ways Cassian is Jean. Everyone ends up hurting and failing Jeanne when she's being forced to live in a certain way. They honestly could have just let her live.
What is burning in the dark judgement?
Not grief, not penitence, but the silhouette of one exhausted.
Or could it be... a woman's strong resentment.
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