Steve Ahlman

Colin Firth has experienced this great trauma and tragedy in his life.

And that's hardened him.

And so he doesn't even want to have the conversation about whether or not what he's doing is wrong.

He's in pain.

And because he's in pain, he's taking it out on probably the aliens, but more the idea that we should be in community with them, which is kind of...

what organizations like that do.

Like organizations that are involved in defense or they want you to kill people, they always give you a reason why you should kill people.

And that reason oftentimes has to do with your experience, what you've been through, or sometimes they substitute some honor code or a way of life or some belief in domination of another culture.

So that's kind of the buy-in that you have to get to pick up a gun and go shoot somebody in the head on behalf of somebody else.

You have to believe that there's something that's bigger than you that's asking you to do it, or they have to be able to hone in on the thing that's encumbering you.

to make you, to militarize you in that way.

And that had happened to him, and we don't find out until we realize that he lost his wife.

Like, the question is, you know, the aliens got cool songs and, like, nice tricks.

Why you ain't down with it?

Why ain't they sending fucking animals to talk to you?

Why don't the animals work on you?

Because you're upset because your wife has died and because all of that stuff.

Other than that, we get nothing from that guy now.

We don't get the fact that he... that there's anything in it for him, right?

We don't get that he is...