In that sense, it's not so different from a lab experiment, where researchers set the stage and observe what unfolds. The aim of these often fantastical scenarios is just as serious: to test, stretch, or even shatter our intuitions about how the world works.
"These scenes are something in Zsa-Zsa's brain - some neurological experience that he's having. Somewhere along the line, we realize this guy is being confronted with his own death so aggressively and overtly that it's actually starting to change his view of the world, which is not something he's ever been open to. And what he's learning in those moments I guess he's learning from himself."
Robinsonâs characters constantly embody a Midwestern sense of impotence, vulnerably trapped in the contradictions of their environment, desperately crying for some relief from life's chaos.
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry articulates that painâs resistance to language not only makes sharing experiences of suffering difficult but also actively destroys the very language we use to convey them.