And the reader is dragged through the last stages of the plot, the ones that force Joy to come to her senses.
Through Depardieu's tormented power, Ferrara conveys the harrowing paradox of pleasure without joy, a forced theatrical show of regal exuberance in which all the power and all the energy are focussed solely on the payoff.
"We have all been forced to find the joy in the smallest things," she said.
Before that time TV presenters who knew full well who had won were forced, during scenes of joy at Socialist headquarters, to come out with such nonsense as, "Well, of course, without the results we can't say what they are feeling right now".
They are not a shoulder of support at a time of crisis, a crutch for your very real emotions; they are rockets to the fluffiest of fluffy clouds, all cartoon cuddly, from which vantage point you can't survey a single thing due to the rainbow-colored joy being forced into your retinas until you vomit a Care Bear Stare into your lap.
They are not a shoulder of support at a time of crisis, a crutch for your very real emotions; they are rockets to the fluffiest of fluffy clouds, all cartoon cuddly, from which vantage point you can't survey a single thing due to the rainbow-coloured joy being forced into your retinas until you vomit a Care Bear Stare into your lap.
Certainly, under former ALP and current Coalition governments since 2007, there has been little joy for those forced onto Newstart.
She said she was willing to try again, and told me she had forced herself to read The Joy Of Sex, and then been astonished at the range of things on offer.
Perhaps it's not surprising: Christmas is a relentlessly commercial period in which we're expected to experience profound peace and joy while being forced to cohabit with people who often inspire neither emotion.
The money I demand is Life, Your nervous force, your joy, your strife!
