once again begging People not to rely on an app with a 280 character limit to provide you with nuance. it can't.
(the more nuanced take would be that it can, sometimes, rarely, but I don't have the space to detail that because... you guessed it. nuance.)
For me IWTV is, among other things, a narrative about systemic and lateral violence perpetuated by the same people who suffer from it, towards people they very much love. It's not a hero/villain narrative. Or a good/evil narrative. So. You know... do with that what you will.
being the first indigenous actor nominated in a leading actor category and wearing a bloody handprint across your mouth is an incredible statement to make
Whether Arun/Andrei, Amadeo, or Armand, he's never been called by a name that has not been said from the mouth of someone who has abused him. As if even in trying to split out those identities, he can't outrun his own names.
Reading TVA is realizing that every last one of Armand's names/identities have experienced more abuse than one person could often carry. And so even in packaging them up as separate people in his mind, he still can't escape the weight of a single one.
@undeaddyke I think it adds to the pain of reading it from his pov because... he really isn't even allowed the knowledge of his own mistreatment. She doesn't grant him the opportunity to really understand it as abuse in hindsight because she likes Marius too much.