The events themselves clearly convey the horror to the family without always being seen by us, the audience. Let alone seen again, and then again, and lingered on. I maybe have some mild objection to some of the events themselves, but that's not the objection. The objection is the degree to which we're brought into them.
This is usually the point in the discussion where someone tells me that it "wouldn't have had the same impact" without all that lingering, and we realize we're at an impasse because there's no real way to litigate the distinction between making sure an emotion lands and being gratuitous.
This is usually the point in the discussion where someone tells me that it "wouldn't have had the same impact" without all that lingering, and we realize we're at an impasse because there's no real way to litigate the distinction between making sure an emotion lands and being gratuitous.