So what do you think...? (spoilers)
Was she the daughter or not?
Based on the evidence, I think so. But I'm not quite sure....
She is definitely a daughter, but "the" daughter is less clear. I am elsewhere on record with a definite "no." This is based mostly on her interaction on the train and the lack of any seeming awareness of either party to the other.
shareI am elsewhere on record with a definite "no." This is based mostly on her interaction on the train and the lack of any seeming awareness of either party to the other.
Yes, no sensible person will argue that the two persons boinking on the train were brother and sister but somehow did not RECOGNIZE each other?!! No, they weren't bro & sis.
We are supposed to be sucked into the same mistake that the naive American girl (think Henry James, perhaps) plunges herself into. Her love of four-square symmetry represents a predisposition toward simplistic black-or-white notions of truth. Cécile is able to function as a sociable individual and also a schemer. Those who think "sociopath" here are at about the same level of social sophistication as the American girl, a level of obtuse moralism that substitutes for personality.
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Bull crap. What the mystery girl did was indeed sociopathic any way you look at it. Not that she's pure evil, but it wasn't right to screw around with Jamie's head. Ha,is, however, didn't need to be so overwhelmingly self-righteous about it. It's not like she knew any of these people very well. Her mini crusade obviously had something to do with the story behind her scar.
Anyway, this notion that there is no objective truth or morality is bull crap. Morality is a scale, from mostly good to sort of good to middle of the road, sort of bad, etc. Cecile was sort of bad. Jamie started out as mostly good and slid closer to the middle.
What isn't sophisticated is this whole "what one man deems evil is a-ok with someone else therefore you cannot judge someone" thing. Moral relativity is not sophisticated, it is dishonest and lazy.