The squirrel


What does it mean? He looks at it before he faints, maybe deep down he knows what he did even if he is not aware at that point, like the squirrel saw what he did, if that doesn't sound too stupid.

The universe isn’t evil, John, it’s just indifferent.

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That inquisitive squirrel looked spooky and I think that shot was done for effect. Mort was so convinced that he was being spied on at that point so he would probably be spooked by anything that looked out of the ordinary.

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With Koepp you never know. He has this weird and wonderful imagination. Maybe the squirrel was to reflect his paranoia. Mort himself a squirrel in the woods. A reference to Bogey in In A Lonely Place - playing a violent screenwriter calling himself mr squirrel?

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