The first time I watched this I found it a bit slow but I rewatched it a week later because I realised I’d been thinking about it that whole week and I was getting chills. And then it really stuck. It’s this idea of the dad who’s a respected figure but has this other life, this kind of underside, doing terrible things, but in his mind, he’s trying to do a good thing for his daughter. So in a moral sense he is completely skewed by a sense of failing that he has over the accident which disfigured his daughter. I totally missed that the first time I watched it, that he was driven by this impulse to help his daughter. Or is it that he was driven to ease his own guilt? This question, I think, is really pertinent. What are the dad’s motivations? Is it to help or is it to help himself? There are different roles we play in family and life, there’s always this tension between if anything we do is ever altruistic or not.
