“I wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life. But I wanted it to use the kind of characters we’ve all met in real life,”
Thesis: I'm the director, and it's about capitalism.
Antithesis: We, the audience, disagree.
Synthesis: Death of the author says we gotta kill that sonofabitch!