This edition is a complete tragedy. At the end, Phantom saw that C would rather say he loves himself against his will to save L, and finally fulfilled them with despair and helplessness. He couldn't help choking. Phantom is extremely conceited and inferior. The extreme tension between the two personalities causes him to express and pour out his emotions in a distorted way. Instead of loving C, Phantom is actually appreciating himself and using his talents to create a perfect artwork. He was in the dark underground, C was on the bright stage, as if he had made his eyes. And C loves the talented Phantom with a mask, but hates the twisted and inferior Phantom. Phantom uses his morbid understanding to express his protection and preference for K, but it makes C feel terrified. Every time the hysteria after being unmasked by C, portrays the inner morbidity to the extreme. For such a tragic love, one can sympathize with the helplessness, the helplessness of being too loving and not being loved, the helplessness of being unable to help but knowing that it is doomed to not respond.
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