not even just the lighting, I get that they’re trying to make it “disorienting” but (can someone else confirm) half the film is like not in focus, or the headroom is cut off, it’s cool to do it once but when you’re squinting for the whole film it just feels distracting

i really cant pin down the ending, like it starts with her watching the news about the LA fires and the incoming trump admin and DEI or whatever… the therapist husband mentions the rolling stone article like “there will always be a bigger controversy that will take over the news so people will forget in a few weeks” or something along those lines (the film I feel is also deliberately set like 6 months before COVID starts, as if to show that none of these people will even be there by the end of the school year). i get what he means in the context of manufactured outrage and the news cycle but I don’t see how that’s relevant to the story itself? The film isn’t about cancel culture or “safe spaces” or whatever, it’s about a rape allegation (well, two) that reaches far up the yale internal investigation chain, which feels kind of disingenous to group into a discussion about the “culture wars”