[cesaray]

[timotay-chalamet]

He starts out as any typical American dreamer: y'know, the second-generation immigrant. The world sees him as a caterpillar, but he wants to be a butterfly and he’s stuck in the strictures and limitations imposed on him because of his working class background, his race and his parents’ expectations of him.

He’s also beholden to the illusion of his significance. I think we all kind of suffer from that; that’s part of the hopefulness and the naivety of youth. You’re enamored with the illusion of your own significance and I think what liberates Naz and gets him to a place of control is an acceptance of his total insignificance — the realization that he’s just another cog in the machine.                                                                                                                    RIZ AHMED