- difficult subject matter
- moral ambiguities
- unhappy ending
- no-win scenarios
- secrets
- lies
- shames
- psychological messes
- a glimpse into the void
- bad thoughts
- bad deeds
- bad decisions
- pure evil
- in over its head
- wrong for all the right reasons
- pave the road to hell with good intentions
- horror
- violence
- torture
- non-con
- dub-con
- subtle
- psychological
- dark humor
- murky corners
- savage beauty in a love affair based on sex, violence, and obsession
- love and hate aren't so simple when sanity is a fleeting condition and obsession cannot be killed
- a world where depravity is mistaken for love
- obsession is the only hope a man can have against hatred
- dark, unconventional love story
- two characters brought together by things that make them hate each other
- antiheroes and antivillains
- even the characters working together oppose each other
- explore and expose layers of intimacy between and within characters
- sexuality/sex
- issues of trust and truth
- mind games
- zeroing in on weaknesses, digging fingers into the soft places, exploiting them
apr 24 2012 ∞
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