Thought about the part in Asteroid City where the director gets on his knees and says "you're playing him right. Just keep going. You don't have to understand, just keep doing the play. You're doing it right" and almost burst into tears. Just a quick update for those following along at home.
just thinkin bout how lieutenant is the main form of address that mustang uses for hawkeye but is also the literal symbol of what keeps them apart but also what binds them so closely and their entire relationship is bound up in duty and quiet devotion and loyalty and suffering and the title is a reminder of it all in one neat little word. ya know. as one does.
do you think boka kept Nemecseks scarf? do you think he brought it up to his nose every night, inhaling the scent of the fabric until every last bit of his childhood friend's smell had been sucked out of it? do you think he refused to wash the scarf? do you think he wore it every day for months after Nemecseks passing, even indoors? do you think he was possessive of the scarf?
do you think at one point he tied it into a knot around his neck and lay in bed as if he were dead, thinking of what could have been? the scarf is like a noose around his neck, which is funny because in Nemecseks last moments, his lungs too had given up. it's funny how everything repeats itself. getting the light choked out of you.