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Wide-angle lenses; Carpenter, Romero and Hitchcock as influences; The Idiot; teenage problems as props
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- The film used wide-angle lenses for an expansive look; Carpenter, George Romero and Hitchcock were big influences, as was The Idiot, and Atlanta in 2022 is asked about as having a parody of it near the end.
- Some people read teenage problems as props: the grass on her thigh as self-harm cutting, uneaten food as an eating disorder and the pill on the napkin as drug dependency; only the grass is bought.
- A line read from The Idiot: your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, tied to wanting to give up like Annie at the beach.
- Mitchell has said that when Jay wakes up on the roof of the car she is close to where Annie was, before she sees the guys in the boat and maybe buys herself some time; a joke imagines those guys coming home.