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I agree.
One of the most beautiful parts of the film is how the relationship between the young recruits and Rasmussen develops.
Pascal was the killer. Moll I think knew quite early on in proceedings (hence her bizarre dreams), but wanted to believe he was like her a good person who had made a mistake but regretted it. She projected everything onto pascal, in the hope he would provide the freedom and redemption she so wanted.
There are several clues he is the murderer, when they first meet when he has blood on his fingers, the way he urges her to torture the rabbit (classic serial killer trope) but moll puts it out of its misery. When she comes home after having sex with him in the woods she has dirt over her mouth (how he takes his victims) and how he asks her if she would still love him if he was the killer. Remember he had a prior for attacking an underage girl?
Moll realises in the restaurant that he is not like her at all and has no remorse, no regrets at all about what he has done, and is visibly stung when he says 'THEY meant nothing to me'..... I think it hits hard that he has killed several times for pleasure (she had always focussed on the one victim and her one mistake - and I doubt moll was a victim of bullying either) and then she decides to take revenge for the young women to prove finally that she is a 'good person' after all (something she spends the movie agonising over). I think the poor migrant farmworker had been framed by the police for the killings.
When pascal says 'but you are like me' at the end he is desperately trying to save his life by trying to bring moll back to the young woman he could manipulate before but this time he is the one who has made the mistake...by meeting a beast greater than him.
Was an absolutely brilliant film.
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