Reviving Relationships with Dinner and a Movie

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@Daniel

But the relationship, the space between the people, is that the RS? Is it similar as the negative space in drawing and composition? As my wife the art teacher keeps telling me. “See the negative space and you will see the subjects as they truly are, not as you think they are.”

This is dead on. It’s the space between them.

@Daniel

So does the RS show the MC, and the IC, as they really are, and not as they, or the writer, thinks they are?

The MC and IC are separate perspectives from the RS, with their own story points. They are related in a holistic sense within the whole big story (entire storyform) but I don’t think it’s a good idea to think of the RS as directly illuminating those perspectives.

EDIT: this concept actually applies better to how the RS is a counterpoint to the OS, kind of showing the alternate perspective to the OS struggles. (i.e. the same way that the IC shows the alternate perspective to MC.) But I think that is a pretty advanced concept and for me it’s something more easily felt than fully grasped.