Mallory Rubin

The idea that the...

You hit this early, and we've come at it a few times.

Every time I wrote in our doc, abducted slash chosen, because it is, I think, given that so much of the film hinges around the people are the bad ones, the aliens are misunderstood, and let's give them a chance, and oh my God, look at what we're doing to them, but could we do it a different way?

They are, at the end of the day, leading these two children out of their homes, into their ship,

And altering their minds and their very beings in a way that they will not understand for decades.

Yeah.

I thought that one of the most, like, harrowing moments in the movie was, like, because you have the brain scan after the clicking on the broadcast and then the collapse.

And it's, like, most people will be relieved to hear there was no stroke, there's no mass.

But then the Parkinson's thing comes up, right?

Like, when the doctor asking, like, when did your father die?

What was the time for the onset of your father's Parkinson's?

And she's like, that's not what this is, is it?

And then when, when Daniel and Margaret are on the train and she's having a panic attack and he's calming her, she's like, my hands, like this is what, this is what my father, that was so intense and so great.

And like connecting to your childhood trauma, not only this moment that she's like, I don't want to think about that.

I don't want to look at that until I have to.

And then Daniel is in a different place where he's like, I,

I have these missing aspects of my life.

You can look at somebody and understand everything that's ever happened to them.

Can you tell me about when I was a kid?

That's really interesting.