#sheitan

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SHEITAN aka SATAN (2006) Reviews

Sheitan (“devil” in Arabic) is a 2006 French horror film. It was directed by Kim Chapiron from a screenplay co-written with Christian Chapiron. The movie stars and was co-produced by Vincent Cassel. His wife Monica Bellucci also makes a cameo appearance. Also released as Satan Review: It’s Christmas Eve in Paris and in the awful-looking Styxx Club, a group of young hedonists are drinking and…

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No it is not.

Big surprise: the French word for Satan is... Satan. What a twist!

I kind of envy Ezarel’s route nowadays, they had a turbulent start with him, but now it’s the most advanced couple out of the 4 routes. I know is not an easy person, and his humor can be too much to handle for some people, but for me a person with the exactly same kind of humor he is such a Prince Charming now. 

Last episode I think was gold for Ezarel’s route. I mean, it was sad, but it was sad in every route, so ignoring that, it was by far the most beautiful version of the episode. 

Let me just start by mentioning how great it is that the most scared of commitment person among the 4 crushes is now pretty much living together with Gardi, while the other routes are way behind that. The closest one is Valkyon who gave Gardi the key to his bedroom, then we have Leiftan who invites her there from time to time, and then we have Nevra who agreed to show her his room someday due to her insistence.

I never felt that closeness between Gardi and Ezarel better than in episode 26 when Ezarel steps into her bedroom and tells her companion that he misses Gardi too, but he promises to take her back home somehow. That was so damn cute, but more importantly, it shows that they have spent so much time together, that Ezarel is starting to care about her pet too, it’s such a little thing, but is so important at the same time. (That’s kind of similar to Sheitan thinking of Gardi as her owner too in Nevra’s route)

One more thing about him that I really loved was when Huang Hua arrived to the HQ and sees Ezarel on a really bad shape coming to receive her, and when she asks him what it’s going on, he just said ‘the apocalypse’ and collapsed. It was such an Ezarel line, that “joke” described all the panic he was feeling perfectly. 

Then we had the cliff scene that I loved, despite some problems I had with it as I mention in my >previous post<. I think the writers pulled out all they had on this one, I was about to cry when I read Gardienne’s thoughts at the moment. 

Ezarel jumped to save her, but it was already too late, to that point it was the same as the other routes, but suddenly she starts to remember moments with him, and then she resign to die on his arms and, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think is the only route when she specifically remembers that she is Eldarya’s last hope, and that if she dies, then they are all doomed, but she stops caring about that to enjoy her last seconds with the man she loves. 

She literally decided that having this moment with Ezarel was more important to her than the entire world. How can this be so beautiful, god? We were blessed with such a touching moment between them, but there is even more to it.

They survived the falling, and Gardi holds on to him as they sank into the water, then her foot is caught under a rock too heavy to move, same on the other routes, they kiss goodbye, and here comes the moment that overwhelmed me. Ezarel holds on to her, deciding to drown with her. Oh, my. We have seen SO MANY MOMENTS where Gardienne dies or is really close to that, and the crush is the one to actually suffer because of it, and many of us don’t really appreciate how much has it affected them because then she recovers and that’s it. 

Here we are seeing someone who has suffered so much for losing the love of his life so many times, that now that is going to happen again inevitably (at least for now), he decides to put an end to it with her. She is going to die exactly on the way she most fears, and he is going to stay with her. Oh, god, I think I want to cry again.

And I haven’t even mentioned how beautiful his illustration is. They usually draw his illus really weird, I like only a few of them, but this one, is definitely my favorite on his entire route. And I’m quite sure that is one of my top 5. Everything, the color, Ezarel’s face and hair, their bodies, everything is perfect. I love all of it.

Quand je rumine ma vengeance et me prépare à l'attaque.