The idea started simply enough.  I had this quixotic vision of a man who gives up on his dream only to learn he should have never given up.  But I think the last few years have swept many of us into a dark corner and what has come out of that corner is something far darker.  

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When you’re a kid no one tells you that you can do everything right and still lose.  What they tell you is that if you work long enough and hard enough your dreams will come true.  That just isn’t the case.  The hero doesn’t get the girl.  The arc of the moral universe doesn’t always bend toward justice.  The bad guy DOES win.

 

Some have said that the noir film reflects the anxieties and trauma of its time.  If that is indeed the case then I want to make a film that reflects the anxieties and trauma of OUR time.  

 

I wanted to present a highly ethical, morally upright successful master of his craft and show his slow descent into darkness. When idealism 

is stripped down to the bone, what does it become? Cynicism? No. Something else entirely. A more vicious vision of the world where the only way to win is to become the bad guy.