They don't create a single hero or single protagonist. A lot of movies end, and you're not sure if it was a happy ending or not. One of his favorite directors is Stanley Kubrick. Unlike an Oliver Stone, Kubrick doesn't hit you over the head with his message. A lot of modern filmmakers get one idea and tape it on the head of a hammer and stand there and pound you over the head for two hours.
Fuck certainly has a plethora of ideas.
Each album is like a snapshot of all the stuff we were listening to at the time. Talk Talk or something like that, and then you see him six months later, and it's Al Green. When I've been in bands that practice every week, that metamorphosis goes slower. Smells Like Records. Shelley's other combo, Two Dollar Guitar, had toured with Fuck back in 1998.