You Were Never Really Here

As much as I appreciate the movie for having the balls to indict its own character and to indict its own audience, It really doesn't have much to say beyond the midpoint.

I did not get why people were gushing over it aside from the fact that yeah, Joaquin Phoenix is a great actor and maybe he's winning the Oscar he should have won for You Were Never Really Here or name any other movie that he's done over his career.

But even here, I was like, sympathizing with the fans here.

It did feel like Todd Phillips just being going into the movie being like, I want a golden lion and made a billion dollars with this movie.

And, you know... unlike anything i don't know she just there was so much to her and i think i had so many i was just so invested in her as a human being um and and like the things like she she's very tough but she has like kind of used beauty as a burden and um at times instead of being afraid she feels pity for a person i just the the complexity of her emotional makeup was fascinating to me

Well, cool, and I'm glad you said you tore through it because, like with this book, like the doll books, like You Were Never Really Here, this is my fifth crime novel.

I did the fingers with the quote marks for people in the podcast world.

But I like them to be read quickly, like they're intended to be read quickly, because the pacing, because I...

You know, when you're working on a project, and I think we may have talked about this, I'm not sure, because you have so many film projects and TV and you do it all.

When you have an initial idea, do you tend to have the visuals like this could be a film too? Or when you're writing, let's say, a noir specifically, Does that come into your mind at the beginning of it, or is it like you just are focused on the novel and then you decide later, okay, I think this could really work as a screenplay as well?

Yeah, I mean, I think I partly got into writing crime fiction or, well, I first wrote You Were Never Really Here, and then I saw how well it transferred into film.

And so, yeah, I don't necessarily begin by thinking, oh, this could be a movie.