“A masterpiece of construction... built upon the ruins of a masterpiece of destruction”
In processing the atrocities of our times it’s sometimes easiest to envision it as the work of a madman, or perhaps a crazed scientist even; there’s an exterior early on whose land is denoted by dozens of crosses, a moment where gothic fiction conjures the true horrors of a war that can’t be forgotten by neither these feuding figures of a Poe adaptation nor the optimist misdirect…