The reality of how we act in emergency is not necessarily what we assume. You have to try to portray as real a world as possible. the family's argument as they attempt to flee On deploying comedy in a horror movie, e.g. I think in the simplest form, the very nature of "us" means there is a "them," right? So that is what this movie is about to me, is that: Whatever your "us" is, we turn "them" into the enemy, and maybe "we" are our own worst enemy. Everybody thinks of the term "us" in different ways-it can be "us" the family, "us" the town, "us the country, "us" humanity. And I think one of the reasons this movie has an expansiveness is because "us" is subjective. And the duality of this country and our beliefs and our demons, I think, is on display. I think a lot of people are catching onto the fact that there's a lot of United States/American imagery in this. That's when the movie sort of went from being about self-introspection to this idea of a societal or collective introspection. And you know, I think the piece of the puzzle that pushed me to embark on this is this idea of the doppelganger family. I tried to apply this idea of duality to everything in the film. All that stuff that we don't deal with: When it comes out, it'll come out in crazy ways. It is a representation of the guilt, the trauma, the fear, the hatred that might be buried underneath layers of pleasantry.
And what I think it represents is this-is everything that we don't face in ourselves. Now, throughout history the doppelganger mythology exists. And when that is put into question, it's just this existential crisis. You know, the one thing we can count on in our own consciousness is that it's ours, and this place in the universe is ours-the one thing that we can know for certain.
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