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Mr. Mamet is a playwright, film director and screenwriter.

“What measure of complicity do we have in things that feel beyond our control?” the screenwriter offers.

Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy cleverly consider the realistic aftermath of public acts of violence, asserting that we must first relearn how to listen to one another for real change to occur.

“We have the fortunate circumstance of Kevin Wade, the film’s screenwriter, passing this to us and saying, ‘Take what’s useful and remake what you need to.’”

Not so good for the screenwriters and true-crime podcasters who trade on our strange fascination with bad guys who go underground and stay there.