I am quite aware they exhibited sexual behavior together, but in more "normal" (or at least healthier) psychological context would both or either of them actually have been lesbian I wonder?
If anyone has thoughts on this, I would be interested in hearing them. I keep meaning to read the Papin sisters biography, but always in the middle of other books when I remember.
i don't know if they would have been lesbian or not but either way i think they would have been attracted to other people and not each other... i think their sexual behavior towards each other was the product of an obsession that grew from their isolation and social stigmatism. if the only people they had contact with was one another, then some kind of sexual desire would play out. what do you think?
shareI am fascinated with the sisters, especially Christine, and I am something makes me feel that she was a lesbian. She had an extremely negative relationship with her mother, and grew very close to her spinster "man hating" aunt who brought her up to hate men. When this same aunt married a man, Christine felt very hurt and betrayed....
She also had the opportunity of marriage once when a man proposed to her, but she reacted with disgust and turned him down. And her passion and desire for her sister would probably not have happened, at least in such an overt sexual way, if she was not at all attracted to women. When she was in prison before the trial, she seemed to be tortured by sexual agony and was desperate for her sister. In a very revealing conversation with one of the jailers, she confided that she believed that in another life, she had been or was to be Léa's husband. There is also a very strong theory that Léá and the daughter of the house had a mutual attraction, and that made Christine feel so threatened and jealous and provoked the murder. Léa also never married and spent the rest of her life pining for Christine. So I just get the feeling that they weren't heterosexual....
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I agree with plush-honey about Christine. She seemed so jealous that Lea still had that connection with their mother...it literally made her spiral into a rage in the movie. Plus it doesn't really matter if they were lesbians or not; the fact that they were so isolated from the outside world, literally stuck in that room for most of the time, that played a big part in bringing them together.
i think i agree with plush-honey....i was just wondering, for anybody who reads this, if you know of resources where i can read about that Papin sisters? I've been having a hard time finding a lot of info about them, and some books i've found have been in french...as much as i like french, i can't speak/read it...so there's a problem :-) thank you!!
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thank you for the suggestions! augh i know! I wish i could read and or speak french....i've gotten the book "french for dummies" several times from the library....still haven't learned it yet, lol! and yeah i'll definitely give you the info if i ever find that movie! if you find it too give me a yell! :-)
shareGood thoughts on the subject.
shareI think they are just situational lesbians, which means, under certain circumstances, they are gay. Note that they were raised by nuns, and they are working as maids, isolated from male species.
I don't intend to be offensive, but I have to defend my opinions.
it's interesting how there are no men (other than the voice of the photographer and the judge/lawyer-?- at the end...) in this movie.
also, did it sound to anybody else like the voice of the judge at the end was the same, or very similar, to the voice of the photographer?
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I think that they were not really lesbians, but they were in a 'no man's land' of sexuality. The real Papin sisters were not as pretty as the actresses in this movie, less delicate, and they were a little like wild animals. They had a primitive kind of sexual behavior and were not fully aware of things. It was back in the 30's, they had been educated by nuns and (sorry) nuns sometimes show strange attitude towards young girls. Maybe they're frustrated, I don't know. But I know what I'm talking about because I was raised by Jesuit nuns in Europe and I always thought they were weird. BTW the sisters were really in love with each other especially because they had nobody else in their tiny world. The big sister, Christine was more evil than Lea and she was very jealous and possessive with her younger sibling. I think that they were on the border of lesbianism but that they ignored even the meaning of this word. They had an "animal" side that is evident when we see the way they committed their killings. It was quite awful and they acted like savages. This story is altogether terrible and interesting it has always been for me the epitome of some kind of barbarism. The murders were really brutal, bloody and dehumanizing.
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