Ingram

about the project and casting

A potential Ingram film would feel spare, uneasy, and quietly funny in the way only Louis C.K.’s writing can be: centered on a solitary child, moving through an indifferent adult world with an unsettling mix of innocence, cruelty, and blunt logic. The movie wouldn’t chase plot so much as accumulate moments: small humiliations, strange encounters, and dead-end conversations that slowly reveal how a kid learns to survive by observing, imitating, and sometimes hardening too early. Shot plainly, almost indifferently, the humor would land late and wrong, while the discomfort would do most of the talking—less a coming-of-age story than a study of how a personality forms in the cracks between neglect, boredom, and accidental tenderness.