Clown of the Year 2013

Yeah, that overused black stereotype of the nebbish divorced small business owner with a harmful tendency to shift blame for their dissatisfaction onto others. Who sometimes dresses like a pirate on tv.

The fact that we don't see Mary's still-life until the very end feels to me like it's implying that it was created by her experiences. That the degradation she underwent, admitting as a therapist that she doesn't know how to "fix" anyone and doesn't honestly believe that she can, somehow directly caused this fractured reflection of her to come into being. I'm sure that within the logic of the movie that it's always been around just in a level none of the characters made it to, but the shot placement feels so intentional to me. The parallel of her sitting at the table across from another man who won't let her go until he gets the answers that he wants from her.