Fundamentally, this guy, I guess he does find a sense of belonging.

He does balance this family, but it is based on a lie, like a really cruel lie.

And it's a lie that comes at the expense of his own family, of his own biological family, who he just leaves.

Yeah, and at one point, you know, he says that thing about a liar is someone who doesn't speak the truth.

An actor is someone who does speak the truth, but in someone else's voice.

It's like, all right, okay.

But I'm not really sure that the film is that concerned about the ethics of this,

because I really do think it's a film about identity and belonging.

And, yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, how we interpret the end is interesting because so the

morning after his surprise party, he tells them, oh, you know, my family, my parents, they've

had an accident and I have to leave.

And they kind of plead with him to stay.

And then we see him recording on his little voice recorder that he's decided to stay, which,

you know, yeah, again, I'm not sure

that the film is that interested in, like, the ethics of this, because I think it is a film about,

yeah, identity and belonging. And I do think perhaps Agoyan's own background is relevant here,

because, you know, he's somebody who came to, came to Canada, you know, Armenian Egyptian,

and, you know, it strikes me that there's a bit of a role reversal here. You know, he's created

this character who's a wasp and himself, you know, not an immigrant, but has no sense of belonging.

You know, he's like this atomized, you know, Forest Hill or Rosdale Wasp, has this very cold and indifferent relationship with his own parents, doesn't really even have much of an identity. And where does he find the identity? He finds it in this immigrant family who have a deep value system, who, you know, even, I know, it's like the food that they're eating at their house versus the food that he's eating with his Wasp parents. It's like there's meaning in this food. It's like it's distinct. It matters.

I'd love to ask a goion about this because as you say, his relationship to this character,

who I believe is probably his point of identification in this film. I think so, yeah.

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