it’s crazy to take this whole thing as “this guy is being annoying” and not “wow this guy has to work a million times harder to get the same recognition as other directors trying way less to connect with their audiences”. and also then not make the connection as to why that is
and i fear we do need to talk abt how when emma said “the aesthetics of it are cool” this is exactly what she was talking abt bc through that “fantasy” scene, both charlie and the audience become complicit in the perpetuation of the culture that normalises gun violence