Ms Kathleen's Movie Review

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The tragic and near fatal ending for Pierre is the result of Severine’s secret life. Marcel shots him in a jealous rage and Pierre is confined to a wheelchair, relying on Severine to take care of him. That is the moral warning of the film, that one's actions can negatively affect not only your life, but also the life of those you love the most. That is an important message and not exclusive to the women who work at brothels. The man who frequents a whorehouse is also putting his wife at risk if he were to contract a disease.

The one FemDom女性支配 — female domination scene in the movie involves a male client, a professor, who wants to role-play that he is the servant to a dominant woman. Severine fails to understand what he wants so Madame夫人 — the French word for Mrs Anais has her watch through a peep hole as Charlotte fulfills the professor’s fantasy by humiliating him about not keeping a clean enough house, trampling him with her shoes and her feet and whipping him. Charlotte makes the comment to Severine that she wishes all clients were like the professor, implying that she enjoys being in the dominant role.