Mark Lamont Hill

They didn't really show how Joe was on his ass.

And if the family has to say so in this, it's like, we don't want that part out there that bad.

Yeah, and that might have been a tug of war between...

the different siblings and that might have been part of what Janet didn't want to be a part of I don't want to speculate about Janet so much but I know they all had very different experiences with Joe and I've seen Latoya say and she's told me directly like some of her experiences with Joe and some of her allegations and then I've heard Michael say things I've talked to Marlon he said different and so I think they wanted to just show look this dude was rough

And clearly abusive.

But we're not going to go into all these different directions.

The movie's not about the abuse.

It's not about that person.

But see, I thought some of it was, some of the stuff that y'all think was basic, I thought was subtle.

Like, when he first starts, as you said, cleaning the house with Mike, he also called him big nose.

Yeah.

And so calling him big nose to me was like, okay, this shit is deep in my head that I meant something wrong with me.

So by the time he's at the doctor saying why I need it to be symmetrical, it's showing the delusion that he has.

And then when Joe walks up to him and he says, it's for my septum.

It's like they're showing Michael has a self-hate and he's constantly trying to convince the world that there's a real reason for it.

And the nose keeps getting smaller and there's always a new excuse for it.

The nose strip that came on like around an hour and a half.

So to me, it wasn't that they didn't deal with it.

They just expect they expected a lot.

They expected a little bit more of the viewer, which I'm OK with.