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It’s done in a very clever way. If Alice had held a gun to Ida’s head, that’d be too much. Ida injured herself on her own. Alice is a nurse. She has the ability to save her or the ability to let her succumb to her wounds. It’s an off-the-nose way to threaten Katrine.
What I thought was going to happen was that we get this “chaotic” ending that wasn’t really chaotic. It’s only chaotic in the “writing” sense, whereby you could argue it was chaotic in a book club meeting. For these stories to work, you have to go beyond that. You have to make them genuinely chaotic, which likely means going further than you’re comfortable going as a writer.
