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Decisive in that he made clear choices. The part about him in the blanket was him pondering his choice to make sure he was doing the right thing and not just running from success. He was still being decisive. Just weighed his options and motives and maturity first.

The Tim Burton angle was how the whole world in this story looked like Adams family or Edward Scissorhands in terms of wardrobe and houses. And also how there's tension and fear without out right gore. Kinda like A series of Unfortunate Events. A fav movie of mine.

With the parents they were his subconscious letting him know he was breaking free of the Voice/Man's control. Note they nodded when he tossed the script in the beginning too when he went to sleep. The whole time he was subtly being influenced. So think of the parents as his old self breaking back thru.

Even at the end, outside looking in him laughing looks crazy. But he knows he's laugh because he's happy its over. He was never crazy it. The studio was built just to be used for the Man's schemes. Had this movie saw the light of day there would be others. And other directors would be used to make them.

Its a story of how easily people can be tricked into compromising their artistic vision. The Director just wanted a movie to be passionate about and work with a team as passionate about the movie as he was. And the Man wasn't the devil or an alien. He was more like a being who weighed people's convicted. Would you give in to temptation? What would that take? Okay let's see if he ignores this glaring problem because I throw success in his face. Like that. That was the man's mind set.

Times like when The director think "wait a minute" were my favorite. They show that he never stopped thinking for himself. Even as the Man added thoughts to his mind.