I remember back in school how annoyed I would get with my English teachers as we dissected every word in the books we were assigned to read. It seemed not a sentence would go by that didn't hold some larger meaning. I'd be thinking, "Not every word has to have some deeper meaning. Can't an author simply be telling a story?" When it comes to films, I think a larger case can be made for looking deeper into things given they are working under tighter constraints than most books, but at the same time I can't tell you how many interviews I've read where directors have been asked the "What did you mean by X? And was there anything to Y?" and the answer comes back, "Nothing really, just thought it worked for the story." In fact, I had a similar situation recently when discussing The Perks of Being a Wallflower...
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