California parents

I look in the eyes of the parents, and they were fully convinced they were doing right by their children.  The phrase God’s Work will likely show up at some point.

What is interesting about life is that True Believers–who can be sadists at heart, and often, perhaps even usually are–speak the same words as everyone else.  They do the same things.  Only open eyes can tell you the difference.

I will comment, too, that Tarkovsky has a character like this in his Nostalghia, a man who confined his wife and children for years, because he was afraid of the world.