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Horrifying moments happen in close-up, projected in black-and-white video on the back wall.
Primarily hes baffled by the way describing the episode further damages him.
These tellings (to us, to his sister, to the authorities) only expand his pain.
Edouard, strangely concerned about his rapist, frets that hes simply created more racist policing.
Confusion, even inversion, is the point.
Ostermeier shows us the attack, but he does so late, long after weve heard Edouard explain it.
Edouard thinks some of the same thoughts, unsure about his own position in the structure.
But where Eribons thinking was organized and rigorous, Louiss is still reeling from the blast.
By comparison, the English-language adaptation ofThe End of Eddyat the Brooklyn Academy of Music is much less absorbing.
They really hope we read it.
Why be squeamish about young people?
Surely puritanism and self-delusion are comorbidities as well?
I dont need to tell you which one feels more like real life.
