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Today I'll show you a thriller-mystery film: "Diabolique"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with Mia waking up in the middle of a rainy night
Sleeping soundly beside her on the bed is her husband
They live in an apartment on the upper floors of the all boys' academy,
where the husband works as a headmaster
Mia gets up and walks to the adjoining bathroom, and removes her nightgown so she can take a bath
In the room opposite Mia's apartment,
one of the young male students is peeping at her in the bathroom
Suddenly, Mia clutches her chest, and collapses
She manages to utter her husband's name, before she loses consciousness
the headmaster wakes up, and sees his wife on the floor
The boy is alarmed by what he saw
He runs from his building and up the stairs to Mia's apartment; so he can help her
On the way, he encounters Nicole, one of the teachers in the academy
Together, they knock on the door to check on Mia
Nicole enters the room first, and sees the headmaster standing over Mia's motionless body
She kneels down, and feels that the woman is still breathing
Not long after, Mia awakens; and Nicole gives her her medicine
A week later, the school is abuzz with the flurry of activities,
being done for the video shoot for the academy's advertisement
Mia walks into the classroom after Nicole dismisses her students;
and she notices that Nicole is wearing a pair of sunglasses
Nicole removes them, and shows her the black eye she's sporting, courtesy of the headmaster
Actually, Nicole is the headmaster's mistress; and Mia knows this
In fact, the two women have bonded over their shared experience of abuse under the headmaster;
and they are planning something against him
Nicole opens her purse, and shows her the prescription drugs she stole,
from the wife of a faculty member
During lunchtime, the faculty eats with the students in the dining hall
However, the students are not eating their lunch, because the food is inedible
the headmaster is angry that they won't eat, and takes it out on Mia,
who's sitting beside him at the table
He orders her to eat her food and swallow everything,
thoroughly humiliating his wife in front of their colleagues
Nicole helps Mia out, by deliberately dumping salt on her plate,
and pretending it was an accident; so Mia won't have to be forced to eat her food anymore
Mia then leaves the dining hall in tears
Later, the headmaster finds his wife alone in a room,
and tries to make her feel that it's her fault for making him be controlling
The two then head to a hormone game
But later on, he also sleeps with the mistress Nicole
The next morning, Mia leaves the sleeping headmaster behind,
to meet up with Nicole for their secret plan
The two women drive to Nicole's nearby house in the city
Her deceased mother had owned the house, and leased parts of it to an elderly couple
Their alibi is that they're staying in the house for a girls' weekend
Later that day, Mia calls the headmaster, and informs him that he wants a divorce
She also tells him that she's staying in Nicole's house;
and he can come to her there later that night; so they can finalize the papers
After, Nicole mixes the prescription pills she stole with a bottle of liquor
Mia is softly crying on her bed, wracked with guilt about what they are about to do
Nicole dishes out some tough love on her,
insisting that the headmaster is an abusive person,
and if they don't get rid of him, they will never be free
the headmaster comes to the house; and Nicole goes to visit the neighbors; so she can distract them
Mia pours the headmaster a glass of the drugged liquor,
and spends the time talking about the divorce,
and how she can get the school in the separation,
because she had inherited it before they got married
the headmaster pours himself a second glass,
and starts to get woozy and becomes physical with Mia,
choking her and insisting that she really doesn't want a divorce
During the altercation, he knocks down the ice bowl
Meanwhile, Nicole is watching TV with the neighbors
They hear the crashing sounds from the other part of the house, and the old lady gets alarmed
but Nicole just turns the TV up to distract them
the headmaster is still being physically violent with Mia
Fortunately, the drink and the pills take hold; and he starts to get dizzy
Eventually, he loses consciousness
A while later, Nicole returns, and orders Mia to turn the radio up;
so the neighbors won't hear any more noise
They drag the headmaster's body to the bathtub, and attempt to drown him
However, the headmaster wakes up, and struggles with them
The two women push him down into the tub;
and Nicole tells Mia to get the water bottle from the kitchen
the headmaster finally stops fighting;
and the water bottle is used to weigh his body down in the water
Nicole covers the tub with the shower curtain, before leaving the bathroom
The two women settle in for the night
Mia is in shock, and doesn't speak much; while Nicole is her usual cool self
Morning comes; and they put the headmaster's body inside a trunk
They struggle to haul it from the house to Nicole's car;
so the old neighbor volunteers to help them
Nicole and Mia hightail it out of the house; and they drive to where the headmaster parked his car
They then separate, with Mia driving Nicole's car, and Nicole driving the headmaster's car
However, they encounter a pileup on the highway; and the headmaster's car gets a flat tire
Nicole gets stuck on the highway; and Mia offers to give her a lift;
but that would be too suspicious, since state troopers are there
So Mia goes on ahead, and they meet up at the academy later that night
They haul the trunk to the campus pool, and dump the headmaster's body there
With their plan successfully accomplished,
the two women now wait for the body to surface after a couple of days
But several days pass; and his body still hasn't surfaced
Mia gets nervous, but Nicole remains unfazed
The two women eat lunch with the other faculty members, who are wondering where the headmaster is
Mia also reveals that the meal plan has now been changed,
a surprising move since the faculty members know the headmaster decides everything
Afterward, Mia goes to the church to light candles; and Nicole follows her there
She asks Nicole why she chose to help her kill the headmaster when she could have just left him
Nicole slyly answers that she was underestimated by the headmaster; and she couldn't let that pass
Tired of waiting for the body to surface, Nicole drops her keys into the pool,
and asks one of her students to retrieve them for her
But he doesn't find anything, except a lighter that belongs to the headmaster
Curious, Nicole orders the custodian to drain the pool; but the body is nowhere to be found
Mia is full-on panicking now; what's more,
she notices the headmaster's freshly dry-cleaned suit, hanging on Nicole's bathroom door
With it is a roll of film, and a key to a motel room
Nicole drops off the roll at a shop to have it printed; then, they proceed to the motel room
They find a Latina maid there, who says that she hasn't seen the headmaster
The pictures come out and turn out to be shots of the two women,
hauling the trunk out of Nicole's house, followed by several pictures of the headmaster
The message is clear: someone knows what they've done, and is taunting them with their secret
Back in her room, Nicole tosses Mia a wad of cash,
and explains that the headmaster had stolen money from the school,
and was supposed to split it with Nicole
But the headmaster lied to her, and said that the money was stolen from him
Nicole felt betrayed by someone she had considered to be her partner,
and so that was one of the reasons why she killed the headmaster
Mia is furious that Nicole killed the headmaster for money;
and she threatens to go to the police and confess everything
Nicole says that the police will be more inclined to go after Mia, because she's the wife
She then apologizes, for not telling Mia about the money
The next morning, Mia finds a newspaper under her front door
The headline announces that a body of a man matching the headmaster's description,
had washed up 20 miles from the academy
Mia convinces herself that it's the headmaster, and rushes off to the police station
She enters the station, and passes by Shirley,
a retired cop who is now working as a private investigator
The policeman on duty allows her to view the body,
but it's not the headmaster, much to her surprise
Shirley looks at Mia with fascination
Later on, Mia sees Shirley again in a diner, and sits down at her table
Shirley introduces herself, and offers her investigative services
At first, Mia rejects her; but Shirley basically pleads with her to accept her offer,
because she's bored and wants a juicy case
Mia eventually gives in, and drives with Shirley back to the academy
She meets Nicole, who takes over the interview, and answers the questions for Mia
Shirley finds this suspicious, and gets Mia alone so they could talk
A young woman visits the school and demands to see the headmaster
She tells Mia and Nicole that she's the headmaster's girlfriend; and he had impregnated her
He promised he'll send her money for an abortion
Nicole gives her the money; and the woman leaves
Later that day, Mia screams inside her bathroom, when she discovers that someone has hung the shower curtain,
which they used to wrap the headmaster's dead body on her window
She meets with Shirley afterward; and the investigator questions her about the headmaster's car,
which she found to be involved in the highway pileup last Sunday
Shirley surmises that the headmaster went to Nicole's house to see Mia
Mia denies this and leaves
Shirley then talks with Nicole, and reveals that she knows that she is the headmaster's lover
Nicole scoffs, and tells Shirley that their affair is common knowledge, and even Mia knows about it
The next day, Shirley sneaks into Nicole's house, and sifts through her things
She finds the liquor bottle they used in the trash, and smells it
She also goes to the bathroom, and sees one of the headmaster's cuff links in the tub
Back in the academy, the video shoot for the promotional advertisement is underway
One of the videographers catches a glimpse of the headmaster in one of the second-floor windows
This freaks Mia out; and she starts fasting and praying in atonement for their sins
Meanwhile, Nicole discovers that the money is now gone; and she sees Mia talking with a priest
Later that night, Nicole notices that Mia's heart medicine is not in her cabinet;
so she says that she'll go to the pharmacy to get some
But Mia suddenly says that she wants Nicole to go away, because she's sick of her
Nicole fires back, saying that she gave the money to the priest to assuage her guilt,
and that does not make her a good person
Nicole then storms out, and drives away
But shortly after, she sees the money in her bag,
and realizes that Mia is selflessly letting her go because of their friendship
this touches Nicole and makes her decide to go back to the school
So Nicole decides to turn the car around and go back
Shirley visits the academy that night, and goes to the basement to investigate
Someone then attacks her
In her room, Mia is drawing a bath, but hears a noise
She sees a computer running a message,
saying that the headmaster is waiting for her over and over again
A recording of the two women drowning the headmaster, also begins to play
She returns to her bathroom, and begins to have trouble breathing
Suddenly, she sees the headmaster with white pupils emerging from her bathtub
Mia has a heart attack and collapses
the headmaster removes the contact lenses from his eyes, and steps out of the tub
Nicole enters the room, and badgers him for not calling her before making a move
It turns out that the two of them planned the whole thing, to scare Mia into having a heart attack
the headmaster pretended to drown, and breathed air in through a hose;
while Mia thought he was dead
Nicole kneels down
and sees that Mia is still alive
She covers up for her
and tells the headmaster that she is dead, for she's already changed her heart to help Mia now,
instead of the headmaster
However, he soon discovers that Nicole is lying, and chokes both women
Mia manages to break free, and runs down the stairs
the headmaster chases her to the pool, where he dunks her head in and tries to drown her
Nicole catches up to them, and buries a garden rake in the headmaster's head;
and he falls to the water
She resuscitates Mia; but the headmaster drags her to the pool too, and starts drowning her
Mia wakes up just in time,
and enters the pool to help Nicole drown the headmaster–for real this time
The two women leave the headmaster's body in the water; and they climb out of the pool
Suddenly, Shirley appears and punches Mia in the face
She then explains that the black eye would help support a self-defense claim
Nicole apologizes to Mia for her part in the headmaster's plan;
but Mia just sadly looks at her, and bids her goodbye
Mia walks away; and the movie ends with Shirley smoking a cigarette,
as she watches the headmaster's dead body sink
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