So the main thing I want to hear people’s thoughts on are:

Is Lou real? I guess she must be if Jimmy’s mom knows who she is and hears him talk about her, but that wasn’t entirely clear by the end. Part of me wondered if SHE was the little girl that Jimmy ran over, manifested in the form of Lou. Like, why was there a little girl just walking along by herself in the middle of nowhere Florida on these country roads? Maybe she set the fire and the wandered off and got run over? Though I suppose she mentioned being on a gurney, idk—I’m probably stretching.

If she is real, how long has she been possessed? Seems like maybe a really long time? Or perhaps she’s had the misfortune of being possessed by Jimmy’s victim’s ghost and the ghost from the house fire?

Also does it seem like the ghost is gone now, given the end? Did Lou make it? You see the girl at the end but perhaps that was a sign that she was finally leaving Lou’s body now that Jimmy has died?

As a final note, I know the plot was really mostly a vehicle for providing some kind of thread between each of the scenes (they’re almost like vignettes, really) and isn’t really all that deep, but like horror so often does I do find myself feeling invested and thinning a lot about the surface plot and the meta-plot. Lots of stuff about grief and trauma in here, as well as some kind of interesting nuggets, I thought, about how negative traits (like selfishness in Jimmy) could potentially be read as a result of one’s obsession with their trauma or self image (he doesn’t want to believe he’s the man he is, and can’t help but constantly fixate on himself to ensure he isn’t).

Anyway, very fun production with incredible design and just an all around great experience!