A review by blindmanbaldwin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thesis and antithesis. Men argue there are supermen who are entitled to do as they please, only to find after they do the acts they still have a heart — and they can't bear what they have done.

Dense in its description, dialogue, and dialectic. But in that density it becomes a urtext for filmmakers like Bresson or Schrader, and for countless other storytellers to follow. Men believing they are above it all then having to submit to the painful resurrection once they realize they still have feelings.

Submission is an act of letting go.