Mallory Rubin

I think that the impulse to say something

For Jane to have a journey of evolution where her doubt when she receives this, she's horrified, just as we understand Hugo was, as we know Daniel was.

Very upset to see the footage that she sees of the interrogations and the torment.

But she worries, worries about how the masses would receive this information, what it would do to them, what it would do to their faith.

And I like that phone call to Sister Mara and, as you noted, like, what she says in response about Jane's personal experience with faith and belief, but also more broadly what we should – the credit we should give people for, like, being able to hold many different truths in their mind at once.

I thought it was really interesting.

It's just very, I think –

half-baked.

There could be less of it in the movie, or there could be more of it.

Yeah.

And I think either of those would work.

It's an interesting area of examination that is just simply, like, not fully teased out.

You mentioned that I don't want to be a Messiah moment, and I thought that was really emblematic of how this wasn't fully baked, because Terry—I think her name is Terry, one of Hugo's team members who left—

And seeing Margaret, who goes around and says all of their names, not that they needed more proof at that point, but proving her power to them, right, kneels down and grasps her hand.

And we have had these conversations between Jane and Daniel.

We have the Jane-Sister Mara conversation.

None of it aligns with the end of the movie.

I think the questions that the movie is asking about doubt and varying responses are appropriate to ask.

But the movie ends in a place of uniformity and consensus.

And, like, widespread credulity.