Renoir sets the story in a contemporary setting (France of the 1950s) and manages to make the good doctor (renamed Cordelier) more of a villain than his brutal alter ego (Opale). Whereas Opale’s violence is spontaneous, a thoughtless response to an uncontrollable impulse, Cordelier’s actions are far more calculated and wicked, and so it easier to sympathize with Opale than with Cordelier.
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