My aim for this film was hope without sentimentality. While writing this script, I'd seen a number of films, the vast majority of which were utterly hopeless. They seemed to take an incomplete account of our world. So I chose to make a film that acknowledges the ruptured reality we live in which often feels bleak, while at the same time providing some amount of levity. I didn't want to negate how irreparable life so often feels, but I also didn't want to overlook the beauty that can recenter us when everything around us seems worth despairing over.