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The Importance of Subjectivity
I think it really did stay exactly as what I conceived because the way that I wrote it was really at the heart of the character anyway. Did you interrogate your partner at all about their memory of this experience? No. Because I feel like that could infect that objectivity that you're talking about a little bit. But one of the things that is so wonderful with the movie is Nora is of course our protagonist, but there are times in the film when I'm really with Arthur and there are times when I'mreally with Haysang. It becomes something where all these people show up and they're here to discover the character together and to find a story together.
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