When Walter White repeatedly said that he was cooking meth ‘for his family’ did you think that the director was trying to convince you that he was actually doing it for his family, or did you understand the character well enough to know that the director was trying to showcase the depth of his self-deception?
Marty Supreme is an egotistical, self-aggrandising Jewish antihero in the 50s who dreams about bringing himself - and his recently annihilated people - glory through sport. When he says ‘we built that’, do you think Josh Safdie is trying to say to the audience that the Jews built the pyramids, or can you understand that he is trying to showcase the self-mythologising nature of Marty’s character?
I cannot believe people are this media illiterate that this has to be spelled out to them step by step as if they are children.