Jobu finishes telling Evelyn that right is a tiny box invented by people who are afraid, and the film cuts to a memory: Joy introducing Becky to Gong Gong, the same scene from the start of the movie, except Evelyn’s face looks different this time, softer, more apologetic. Back in the temple, Evelyn insists she still knows who she is, that her life was happy. Jobu, instead of looking triumphant, looks almost sad. Then two acolytes tear the curtains down (not pull, tear) and reveal the bagel, still bagel-sized, somehow filling the entire frame anyway, pulsing hard enough to crack the marble walls of the inner sanctum before sucking Evelyn, Jobu, and the audience through a single eye into the hot dog universe.
We spent a good chunk of this episode on sacred inner sanctums across world religions, from the Jewish Holy of Holies to Hindu garbagrihas to Shinto honden, trying to figure out what the Daniels were drawing on when they designed this space (the building really was a Catholic cathedral, which explains a lot). We also dig into a cut script line where Jobu makes the binary explicit, telling Evelyn she can love and hate her at the same time now, and we walk through exactly how this bagel reveal differs from the one we glimpsed earlier in the film, including a continuity wrinkle in just how cracked those walls already were.
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