Marty Supreme was — like all of Josh Safdie’s movies — an incredibly stressful viewing experience, and while I’ll probably never watch it again, I can’t get certain parts out of my mind. The shot with the bathtub. Rachel in the phone booth. The honey anecdote. That final needle drop. But one moment sticks out above all else: a throwaway line said to Marty during an argument in the movie’s final moment that comes out of nowhere.
In a recent podcast appearance, Safdie revealed that this originally wasn’t supposed to be just a strange non-sequitur. If he’s to be believed, we could have seen a completely different ending.
