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In the same way that a lot of people avoid cringe comedy due to crippling secondhand embarrassment, I avoid "the liar revealed" scenes--that moment where a character who has spent the entire movie constructing an elaborate fiction finally has to come clean to their friends and loved ones. I find them upsetting because, by design, there's this huge gap in understanding between the viewer and those friends and loved ones, who often react to the truth in anger or a sense of betrayal, and I always want so badly to explain to them, "No, you don't understand, they weren't trying to hurt you, and if only you saw the wacky and unlikely comedy of errors that led up to this moment, you wouldn't be so mad." (It may not surprise you to learn that I have a hard time with Dear Evan Hansen.)

Maybe this isn't the feeling I'm supposed to take away from these scenes, but whatever I am supposed to be feeling is totally overridden by the feeling of being misunderstood. It's one of the most miserable feelings I can think of.