As a professional photographer, I've been associated with dancers for years. I watched intently, then eventually learned, to capture visually the angst and self-denying/other-affirming needs of performance artists, especially female artists.
Exaggerated for dramatic impact, one must nonetheless appreciate this episode's script via the primordial forces which led the victim(s) and the predators to be as they are portrayed. There is evil, and humans suffer.
The writers illustrated the horrific pressures put on female artists. Predators are common; morality is too often in short supply. I caution all viewers, regardless of gender, to heed the prima's warning in the last scene. Don't let the "rush of ovation" become your raison d'etre. It will destroy your art, and eliminate your self. To your own self be true.
Exaggerated for dramatic impact, one must nonetheless appreciate this episode's script via the primordial forces which led the victim(s) and the predators to be as they are portrayed. There is evil, and humans suffer.
The writers illustrated the horrific pressures put on female artists. Predators are common; morality is too often in short supply. I caution all viewers, regardless of gender, to heed the prima's warning in the last scene. Don't let the "rush of ovation" become your raison d'etre. It will destroy your art, and eliminate your self. To your own self be true.