
Season 1, Episode 1 - “When You're Lost in the Darkness”
HBO's The Last of Us Podcast
The Flashback Is a Dangerous Trap
There's another moment specifically between Joel and Ellie right towards the end. The use of flashback is a really dangerous, it's a dangerous trap. You need to see what's happening inside of his head like a traumatic flashback. And he doesn't get angry. There's no even sense of survival. It is pure rage when it manifests. But right before it's pure rage, if you look at Pedro's face and he's so wonderful in this moment, it's this crushing sadness before the anger is mourning and grief.You can see his heart breaking all over again. In this, he's very close in the frame. And I remember on that day, we had gone through a bunch
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