It's complicated to really dissect it. As a whole, it seems like a very typical edgy one-shot about a killer who wants to live a normal life, with the calling of a murder coming to him everyday, but the ending makes me feel so divisive about it. There's more to Zanuff than just being a killer, and I'm such a sucker for self-redemption, self-forgiveness, and acts of kindness in the brutality of someone's life. There's little layers to how horrible a man this is, but, you can't help but feel bad about just how hard it is for mentally unwell people to fight those urges,and it opens the conversation. Do horrible people deserve a second chance to change themselves? If they accept their nature, and try to control it, doesn't that mean way more than starting out good? However, Zanuff was a horrible human being, and his mental unwellness did kill others for disgustingly perverse reasons.

It's fair to look at the questions, and allow them to be asked of people in the real world when taking into account the punishment they deserve. In the end, our main character did deserve what they got, no question about it, but it is true they did one good thing, a thing which changed someone's life for the better. Both are true, paradoxical, and even after I read it a while ago, it keeps me wondering about it.

Still, it's an uncomfortable story to read and equally uncomfortable to ask the questions.

I love things which do what others just won't touch the idea with a ten-foot-pole. You gotta do the strange, and disgusting questions.

Good enough art for it, interesting characters, and story. Felt like a short film, with a very divisive, film festival kind of touch to it.

7/10. Good little oneshot.