Is Sunshine a response to romantic-movie treacle?
I didn’t think of other movies, really. I thought of my own experience more: being left by my girlfriend, all the problems to make a relationship work. All the things that everyone who wants to be with someone encounters. What relationship would you erase from your memory if you could? I don’t think I would erase any, to be honest. The erasing happened to me. It’s an image from the day you find out that your girlfriend decided in an arbitrary way that she doesn’t love you anymore. It’s very devastating news. There is a sense of denial of all the good times, of all the times she told you you were unique, and now you’re not unique anymore. To me, the erasing in the movie represents that. I don’t project myself into the position of erasing someone. The “Knives Out” video addressed your relationship also. Do you feel that, after doing this movie, that you’ve worked through that? No. I certainly don’t think I’ve worked through that in terms of solving that problem in my life. It’s just beco