Justin Hill

So we don't get any of that.

And I think that that's what people have an issue with because they're like,

we don't really want to see all the positive.

We want to see some of the heartache.

They've tried to inject that with his childhood and with his awkwardness around people and how he would buy animals to be his friends and he would talk to them and he would go to the toy store and buy toys and his brothers would be like, what are you doing?

Like he just obviously had a very stunted growth from an emotional capacity and they try and reflect it in that being the negative as opposed to any of the, you know, controversial stuff around him.

At the risk of sounding like I'm defending him,

they do create a narrative that tries to explain that through his lack of friendships growing up and his lack of, I guess, interaction with other children as a child.

They also say too, when you are a pop star like that, that you often have that kind of like your, your mental growth stops at a certain point.

And I think that's what we're trying to see portrayed here is that he didn't have any friends.

He didn't grow up around other kids and he had a horrible home life with his father and,

He was tricked into doing things.

He never even used to like tell people no.

He used to get other people to come in and tell people no.

I think that's what we're seeing.

And I think the storyline that they're trying to come up with is that he just could see himself in other children.

And that's who he related to the most because he loved toys and board games and video games and stuffed toys and animals.

And so...

that very quickly became its own kind of like dark shadowy monster because it's like it's not right to see a grown adult behaving with children like that.

But, yeah, in the film they try and justify it that way, I think.