people who say that meta is “reading too far into it” have obviously never studied media because when i did we spent 4 hours lighting a golf ball in different ways to explore the different effects and connotations of various lighting techniques and i had to reshoot a scene of a final piece because there was an empty water bottle on the windowsill and my teacher said that it had to go because it signified resignation (glass COMPLETELY empty) which didn’t fit with the scene