obfuscations they re both. did he ever ask you to edit or sensor anything? no he didn t. he did not ask me to do that. i think that s because roger knew the kind of films that he loved, especially in the documentary realm but also fiction with films he felt were intimate honest and complicated. i think once he made a decision to be a part of this film when he said okay let s do this he wasn t going to have a different standard for him than if you were watching a movie about somebody else. what makes that so unusual is like you say, he was a film critic he knew what he was getting into in a way a lot of people don t know. i think it s exceedingly rare for someone of his stature, knowledge, and celebrity to commit to that kind of honesty. exceedingly rare but i would say unprecedented. what did it end up being more about for you? his career or his dying? because this is really about