The more I talked to them, the more frustrated I became that they weren't doing anything. I decided, well, I have the power to create a fictional suicide here, which is very much the energy of the students, so to speak, so I just said fuck it, I'm just going to do it. Initially the suicides were written as being done by a theater group, and it turns out that they were all fake suicides. But it got too complicated to explain, so we cut it all out. That was an interesting idea, because it's consistent to my original film, in that here is a theater group doing suicides that were so realistic that everybody thought they were real.
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The trick is, I'm always interested in working within certain rules and trying to break them but still functioning within the rules. I mean, that's my whole life.