like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal “normal girl falls for mysterious brooding antihero” story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though they’re at his literal house
*Male director voice* I wanted it to be raw and real. I wanted you to see her at her lowest point. Her most vulnerable. I wanted it to be ugly and uncomfortable.
The scene in question: woman takes off her makeup
I needed to show that she had really gone off the deep end. Her life was effectively over. Everything that tied her to her humanity had died. Nothing would ever be the same. The woman she once was was dead. This scene was, in a sense, her eulogy to her past self.
