Sydney Madden

And I think there was something in the press notes about how this actually started in David Lowery's mind as just a static scene between two characters

that represent two parts of his own consciousness that were warring against each other.

But the majority of that tension ultimately fizzles away for me when they get to the turn that the source of the betrayal is just that Anne Hathaway's pop star character dropped Sam as a stylist and a designer.

Like, girl, I get that hurts.

I get that's a betrayal, but that's also the business.

Like, get over it, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's so funny that they named it the tagline.

This is not a ghost story.

This is not a love story.

But what is it?

Okay, so you had to get metaphysical to drive this point home and you had to force us to use our imagination so much more because the real problem between the root of them is just how fickle and unjust this commodified creative space has been, you know?

Yo, I love that touch point because David Lowery and the actors, they've said that they watched pop documentaries like Truth or Dare or Homecoming.

And the through line of those documentaries being very much not only the work ethic that goes behind this grand show that you see as a fan, but also…

how each act as a person handles being seen as a larger-than-life figure, as a deity, right?

And that ties into the Catholicism element of this with Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene.

But no, that's a really good observation because that's – I don't know that I would buy a ticket to a Mother Mary show, to be honest.

Based on the flashes that I've seen, I'm like, I don't think this is actually a really – I listened to the playlist and I was like, eh.

There's no room for breath control and diaphragm in those moves that she was doing.