chabrol builds a sophisticated beguilement that violence with gun does not equate with immorality, while immorality is (arguably) in itself innocent, and the conducting of it could be an arrogant mistreatment the bourgeois do to themselves. quite stunning.
When the director intended to experience misery, fortune always pulled him back; when he decided to end the man-made adventure, a real journey of suffering began, which led him to a film for the unfortunates - a comedy.