jackie and shauna vs the ‘is it better to speak or to die’ quote
their whole dynamic is basically defined by the things they both left unsaid. they’re incapable of communicating, yet love each other to the point they start to lose their sense of self
shauna does not chose to speak until it’s too late, and even then, even when talking to jackie’s literal corpse, she still can’t bring herself to
in terms of the quote itself, jackie chooses to speak, shauna chooses to die. it’s ironic, because jackie died physically, but shauna will spend the rest of her life replying every interaction they’ve ever had, reliving the idea that if she went outside to get her, she would’ve still been alive.
in the end, jackie choosing to speak was it’s own kind of dying for shauna
this is why i wanna shrink u and put u in my pocket and carry u around everywhere i go, thank you for this 🙏🏻