You know, I try to cut straight to the marrow. If the truth hurts, I shave it off a bit until it stops bleeding, but never till it’s a lie. The audience gets the scars, the characters get the weight. If someone’s in a fragile spot, I keep their worst parts behind a curtain, let the light hit the rest of the story instead. It’s about showing the brutal, but framing it so the damage is felt, not inflicted. That’s my compromise.