Octavio Solis’s Reviews > The Idiot > Status Update

…so despised. And admired. And he clearly sees that Natasya Filipovna is mad herself because of some deep repression in her soul. She’s in love with Aglaia, not the Prince. Yet these male suitors are madly chasing after her. There is so much angst in this work, and frankly, I love it. It teeters on melodrama but never quite submits to it. It plays like comedy but its laughs are cruelly and sadistically earned.