A culture that only accepts redemption arcs in fiction and punishes them in real life is a strange thing to sit with. We'll cheer a character for changing over two hours but demand a person prove it for the rest of their life. Growth was never supposed to require an audience's permission to be real.
A culture that only accepts redemption arcs in fiction and punishes them in real life is a strange thing to sit with. We'll cheer a character for changing over two hours but demand a person prove it for the rest of their life. Growth was never supposed to require an audience's permission to be real.
Amen. Couldn’t have said it better.