The Parisian Lannisters

Caution if you have not yet seen Game of Thrones and have no idea what the show is about and you are thinking about starting it DO NOT READ ON. SPOILERS!!!

The Papin sisters were the murderers of the week. They were two sisters who worked as maids in the thirties who worked for a wealthy widow and her young daughter. The story revolves around how because of there insane closeness the sisters world was becoming small, enclosed and it drove them mad.

Christine is the eldest and is working initially on her own. Later Lea comes to join her and the two sisters become reclusive and because of the time and the observance of the chaste system they are also alienated by their mistress. Chirstine is the jealous one. She believes that Lea is secretly forming a bond with the daughter of their mistress, Isabel. She also is jealous and angry at the love their mother has for Lea. She is slightly abusive to Lea and yet Lea always tries to soothe her fears that she will leave her side.

Behold the work of the Papin Sisters

During the entire movie I could only think of one other glorified incestuous pair of sibling murderers. Jamie and Cersei Lannister of the A Song of Fire and Ice  or as it is more popularly known the Game of Thrones television series on the HBO network. Jamie is a knight who is not supposed to have a wife, children and properties. Lets just say his secret wife is his wife, his children have been claimed by the King (he has been so sadly cuckolded) and his father has left him all his property in hopes that he can buy him out Jamie's knighthood. Jamie is like both Lea and Christine. He has Christine's penchant for rage and possessiveness but like Lea he is not in the lead and is constantly one of his family members pawns.

 Cersei, is a real piece of work, she is like Christine in the sense that she leads the relationship, she is the one that reminds Jamie to be cautious and she is also verbally and emotionally abusive, its almost sadistic. However she tends to be slightly impulsive like Lea and despite her nasty talk usually hides behind Jamie and lets him fight her battles. Cersei always obsesses about how they are twins, golden-haired and green eyed, full of the Lion Blood, heirs to the Lannister empire. Jamie and her always envision a world where only they can belong. When they were younger like the Papin sisters they were obsessed with a world that only they could belong to and that only they understood. They cared nothing for the outside world.











This is what most reminded me of the Papin sisters. Christine is jealous of the relationship that Lea has formed with their mother and is also jealous of anyone who even remotely speaks to her. After the first sexual encounter they have at their workplace they become increasingly withdrawn and close the world around them until they are the only two people left. Although Jamie and Cersei and a heterosexual they are like The Papin sisters in that they are hostile to the outside environment that does not consist of one of the other.

The relationship between the sisters also reminded me of another homo-incestous relationship in the very popular anime show: Ouran Host High School Club. The show is about a girl who gets a scholarship into an elite school and encounters a group of  six boys who have a very popular host club. They have devoted themselves to entertaining the girls that go to their school and have made considerable money from it. The twins Hikaru and Karou are very inclusive about who they let into their lives on an emotional level. The closeness reminded me of the Papin sisters who are very selective about who they let into their lives.