i liked this quite a bit but i feel like it was kind of stretching a little too far for profundity. mostly i just don’t see how the addiction theme tied into the sell-your-soul theme very well. the sell-your-soul theme seemed more about conformity and success with your peers and there just wasn’t much there with the addiction theme. it seemed kind of tacked on and manipulative, especially clayton’s talk to his kid about raining shit. it was a very affecting scene to me but it just didn’t fit anywhere else.
but the sell-your-soul theme i loved and arthur’s monologue was great. and i liked clayton’s reasoning with him of waiting, letting the revelation wear off. the ending was a little much with the redemptiveness, and how’d they organize a whole sting in, what, an hour? oh, also i found it funny that the realm and conquest book was bright red.
