Interview with Lindsey Ryan

One of the things I've really responded to in the film is that there is no real happy endings on the horizon for this family.

There's always going to be constant setbacks.

They're always going to be facing challenges and dealing with them.

And even any victory they get is sort of a bittersweet one.

It just felt very real to me that it wasn't this kind of fairy tale.

They struggle, but they're going to get everything they want.

Yeah, that was important to me.

I know the Rey character.

I've met these men.

I've observed these women in marriages, friends of mine, or whatever the case may be, where you just are waiting for the person to wake up.

So I always imagined that this movie was an evolution around difficult person because ultimately that's what life is.

I think we seldom see the person who behaves this way take accountability.

I think if that were the case, life would be a much...

But I think for me, keeping that integrity of truth was so important.

And I think that's what independent cinema allows us to do.

If this movie was set up in a more traditional sense, I don't know if that's the ending I would have been able to go with.

So it felt like.

This bittersweet, tender ending, which I won't spoil because I think it is just a special thing to experience for the first time, was so important to me.

And I think that the cast just nails the nuances of that end in a way that's so bittersweet.

And Ray is definitely running out of road.

There's not many people left.

He can ask for favours and people are getting a sense of we're never getting any of this back when we help you out.

So he hasn't got many corners left to sneak into, has he?

Yeah, exactly.

And I think at some point the shtick gets old.