★★★★

Highlights

This is about hope, sure, but not in the way that it is often packaged as an antithesis to that which is burning.

This is the difficult work: convincing a room full of people to set their sadness aside and, for a night, bring out whatever joy remains underneath—in a world where there is so much grief to be had, leading the people to water and letting them drink from your cupped hands.

First leave nothing to the imagination, and then leave everything to the imagination.

It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary.