Wesley Morris

I understand that.

But this is a thing that happens in revolutions.

I just want to be clear.

That's fine, Bill.

I mean, yes.

But what I'm wondering is Paul Thomas Anderson writes this fictional character who does the reprehensible.

And then exits, right?

It's not like you have to spend the rest of the movie.

She has essentially exiled herself from the proceedings.

And I think that the time that passes, we're talking about 16 years, basically, of time for her to think about the life that she's currently living and the life she abandoned.

I think I received this character as human before I received her as a stereotype.

Okay.

And I think that...

Terrible choices were made.

But I also think that that's a long enough time to regret having made them.

Who knows?

She could be going to therapy or wherever she is.

She could have found... She could have started a new family and in starting that new family come to appreciate that she fucked up.

I don't know.

But these are the things that the generosity of the spirit in which this movie was made allow me to think about.