At one point in the middle of the film, as Driver's Cesar speaks to the camera, the screen briefly goes blank. There is bewildered applause from those who thought it was all over – if only we had been that lucky – but then, with the lights still dimmed, a man runs out of the wings onto the stage in front of the movie screen, holding a long microphone.
…The man positioned himself on one side of the stage, now illuminated by a spotlight. He then turned to Driver, now back on screen, and asked him a question, as if he were participating in some weird pandemic-era Zoom press conference. Driver answered, and the man then hurried off the stage again. It was so strange and felt so completely pointless that I didn't know how to react.