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[Beatrix Gerke]

SecretThings (French: Choses secrtes) is a 2002 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Coralie Revel and Sabrina Seyvecou.[1] The film is sometimes associated with the New French Extremity. Cahiers du Cinma named Secret Things, jointly along with Ten by director Abbas Kiarostami, as the best film of 2002.[2] The film was awarded the French Cineaste of the Year title at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, Brisseau was found guilty of sexually harassing two actresses between 1999 and 2001 during auditions for the film.[3][4]

The club owner gives Sandrine an ultimatum to have sex with a paying client. Nathalie, after finishing her shift, defends and dissuades Sandrine from accepting the offer, and both girls are fired. Sandrine, after falling behind on her rent, is sure that the landlord will kick her out especially since she is unemployed, but Nathalie offers to share her apartment with Sandrine for a while.

The girls decide to climb the corporate ladder by exploiting their sex appeal and get jobs as secretaries in a banking corporation. Sandrine is sent to HQ, and Nathalie is sent to Human Resource Department. They aim to seduce their bosses and get promoted, which Sandrine accomplishes with co-founder Monsieur Delacroix after becoming his secretary, but much ambiguity surrounds Nathalie.

Christophe, the CEO's son and future heir to the banking corporation, is very handsome and the final target for both girls to seduce, but his reputation is devastating. Having gone through many women, Christophe is ruthless and seemingly emotionless yet has the capability to seduce any woman and make her fall madly in love with him. This resulted in previous romances ending with their suicide. Yet Sandrine still is determined to conquer him even after receiving a warning from Nathalie.

Over time, Sandrine, through absenteeism and reduced attention towards Delacroix, convinces him to have Nathalie transferred to his office as an assistant secretary to Sandrine since she feels overworked. The result is a threesome that evening in the office that Christophe and his sister interrupt. After being covertly disciplined, Delacroix will retain his job title and continue to work for the company, but, officially, on paper (to which only Christophe has access) he has been fired.

After the situation, Christophe takes Nathalie and Sandrine to a private restaurant, where it is revealed that Nathalie has been Christophe's secret lover while the girls had been working at the bank. After flaunting his wealth, Christophe reveals his plan: to marry Sandrine with a formal wedding to convince his dying father that he is a reformed man and thus will gain complete control over the corporation. Sandrine will divorce after with a healthy settlement. Nathalie, enraged by the situation, does not resist in hope that Christophe loves her, even obeying his command for her and Sandrine to go to the toilets and start having sex before awaiting Christophe to turn it into a threesome.

Later on, Sandrine is invited to Christophe's chateau for an evening of dinner with him and his sister in an incestuous threesome. The evening is interrupted by Nathalie, who still believes blindly that Christophe loves her deep down. After Christophe rejects her and throws a stone at her, Nathalie succumbs to madness. The wedding is carried out at a later date and during the wedding night Sandrine and Christophe walk together through his chteau as an orgy ensues. Guards escort her to the cellar upon hearing that Christophe's father has died and left him the entire corporation. There, she is gang raped by guests whilst Christophe and his sister engage in sexual intercourse.

Later on in the evening when the events have settled down, Sandrine is thrown out in front of the main door and told by Christophe that the divorce may take several weeks. Nathalie appears with a jerrycan full of petrol that she pours over herself and holds a lighter in the air. Christophe dismisses her only to be shot several times by Nathalie in her rage. She is jailed and Sandrine becomes the heir to the corporation. Years later when Sandrine is entering her limousine on the streets of Paris she recognises Nathalie, who has since married her jail guard and had a child. Nathalie and Sandrine walk over to each other and kiss each other on the cheek.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50% based on 50 reviews, with an average rating of 5.63/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Pretentious and trashy."[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]

Lisa Nesselson of Variety wrote that the film can be enjoyed by both scholars and exploitation film fans, who she says were probably seeking a film like this when they watched Eyes Wide Shut.[7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it three out of four stars and wrote that it is "a rare item these days: An erotic film made well enough to keep us interested", though he said it is not the best film of the year.[1] Dave Kehr of The New York Times compared the film's bluntness negatively to the work of ric Rohmer and said it is more interested in titillation than intellectualism; however, he wrote, "But there is no denying the force of Mr. Brisseau's bizarre imagination and the personal conviction he brings to it."[8]

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle rated it two out of four stars and wrote that the film's excessive focus on sex "numbs the audience" but it never becomes boring.[9] Allison Benedikt of the Chicago Tribune rated it two out of four stars and called it "a trashy porno pretending to be deep". Benedikt concluded that the repeated sex scenes cause the film to become boring despite the "disturbing and arousing moments".[10] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote that the film "hints at a place where desire, fear, pleasure, and power all intersect, but it never actually goes there".[11] Tom Dawson stated in his review for the BBC, "If the stylised Secret Things can be seen as both a tale of female empowerment and a class allegory, it still resembles a voyeuristic male fantasy in its depictions of lesbian sex, threesomes, stripteases and public masturbation."[12]

i] No answer is given in Scripture to the question of how sin originated. It began in heaven, in the heart of Satan, and he was an angel created by God, of superhuman moral and spiritual strength. Yet, at the heart of that perfection sin began. The Lord Christ was there. He was a witness of the rebellion; he was the Judge that condemned the rebel angels to be cast out of heaven and reserved in everlasting darkness for the day of judgment, but he said nothing about it when he was on earth. In none of the four gospel does he make any reference to the event.

Most of us have heard of that grief, and other similar difficulties that eminent servants of God have passed through. We have listened to older Christians mentioning the trials they have known, the struggles and falls, and we have wondered whether the Christian life could possibly be all that arduous.

We know that we are called by God to come to Jesus, and we know that God is calling us to him now. There is nothing secret about that; it is revealed to us and to our children that we come to the Saviour as he pleads with us to come. We drop every argument now for our refusal to come, and we come just as we are. You come to him now. Every one here who is not a Christian (and you know who you are) and you come to Jesus Christ and be saved.

In the book of Deutoronomy Moses is preparing people for entrance into the promised land. He desires that they be a people who love God by walking in obedience, which will lead to great life and flourishing for generations to come. Yet, alongside the promise of blessings for obedience comes an even greater list of curses for disobedience. Chapter 28 is a long chapter filled with troubling pictures of great suffering, exiled people, and even canabalism.

Imagine for a moment that God unveiled his sovereign plan before your eyes. In a moment you catch a glimpse of the infinitely complex layers of all existence. Pathways of joy and sorrow interconnect one to another with countless primary, secondary, and tertiary effects on countless souls for billions of people across all time.

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. Hebrews 1:1-4

First, simply consider the absolute horror of what it would mean for God to have no good purposes or reasons whatsoever for allowing all of the evil that he clearly could stop. Every example of every horrible event that you just came up with, would be totally and utterly pointless in every sense, and yet something God is still responsible for because he could have stopped it.

I dislike the idea of divine permission. See if this makes sense. God creates everything that is not himself from nothing. That means that there are two and only two kinds of things, God and stuff God makes. Time is not God therefore time is part of creation and God transcends it. Time has its being in him, not vice versa.

Conflating Foreknowledge for causation (in the sense of Occasionalism) only goes through successfully if we annihilate the immaterial Imago Dei. But God has decreed that very being. So, given His decree, have no choice but to embrace choice.

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