Jordan Cruciola

But if people walked about, there was like, I was alienated by how much I didn't like that guy.

I'd be like, I get where you're coming from.

Yeah.

It feels like something just an American director couldn't do.

Oh.

Just a cultural understanding.

And except like, there's even a moment where he's being rude to a member of the hotel staff.

Yeah.

He's being, like, such a jerk looking for his room in the hotel, and he's totally lost.

And she's like, hey, can I help you?

And he's like, yeah, I can't find this stupid room, like, some version of that.

And she's like, great, you can find it yourself.

That's not an interaction that you would have with an American service person in a hotel, but, like, there's a cultural understanding of this kind of, like, give as good as you get sort of reciprocal, like, all right, if you take a punch at me, I'm going to take a punch at you kind of thing, where I feel like it makes the movie...

It's speaking in a sort of language of darkness that I don't think the American cultural sensibility actually does adeptly.

And in this context, like in the context of horror, like we need a little bit more, we need a little more sensation if we're going to do that.

Like we need, I am yours.

Mother!

We need a Tony Collette performance to kind of come with that as opposed to dry, droll Adam Scott.

And I appreciate the palate cleanser, even if I don't need it all the time, of what Damian McCarthy could do.

Because Oddity 2, it's a bit of an impenetrable movie with its characters.