Jean Genet reputedly said that "The only two things worth writing about are sex and death." So, a 'strangely erotic' scene in a snuff film would take these two themes and fuse them. Genet didn't have to direct a snuff film himself; maybe the naive actor/narrator had been duped into believing that his director was in fact Jean Genet, and now he realizes that he's been had, and nearly been killed himself by the guillotine.
Speaking of guillotine, the real Jean Genet died of throat cancer. There might be something to that guillotine image as a symbol of his throat cancer.
Jean Genet reputedly said that "The only two things worth writing about are sex and death." So, a 'strangely erotic' scene in a snuff film would take these two themes and fuse them. Genet didn't have to direct a snuff film himself; maybe the naive actor/narrator had been duped into believing that his director was in fact Jean Genet, and now he realizes that he's been had, and nearly been killed himself by the guillotine.
Speaking of guillotine, the real Jean Genet died of throat cancer. There might be something to that guillotine image as a symbol of his throat cancer.