>Well, at the present moment he's currently grappling with being hit
>with a hammer inscribed "You have failed your family in the most
>complete way possible."
>
>He's gonna need a little time to recover from that.

I was gonna say, let the man breathe a little. He doesn't buy into the complete package of the Traditional Gender Roles, but he has pretty conventional views in re the responsibilities of fatherhood, and he has (in his own estimation) blown the job pretty comprehensively. What you're seeing in that last scene he's in is his initial reaction.

We had a lot of trouble with this one - I may get into more of the why and hows of that later on - but one thing that happened was this: When we were plotting this thing out, one of the things I wanted to avoid doing was ending with the big negative shock - that kind of thing often strikes me as kind of a narrative cheap trick - but at the same time, I realized as construction went on that I couldn't go too deep into the reactions and responses before it started to feel a little like padding. The original draft ran into the middle of the next day, when people started to get over the shock and grief and start picking up the rubble, and it just felt weird that way. I split the difference with the version that finally saw release.

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