anyway, looking back on the first-viewing reaction, it figures that I’d put this in a way I like very much and then not get it into the Letterboxd review. Like tears in rain
alternate endingIt’s said that Barker got notes asking to make the main character more unambiguously good and noble so he could be a more suitable protagonist, and responded by doubling down and making him worse. The vileness of the Nice Guy, the things he does when the chips are down, sticks to you like fresh tar