Parents like to say that seeing the world through the eyes of their children is like seeing it for the first time. Arnold (Jeffrey Wright) seems to experience the same when he sees the world—our world—through Dolores’s (Evan Rachel Wood) gaze. Yup, you heard us: Arnold.
Arnold wants to show Dolores the world, so he takes her on an excursion to his home, a Frank Lloyd Wright–esque house he’s building so his family and his work can be within close proximity to each other. Arnold talks about his son Charlie, comparing his child’s positive outlook on the world to hers.
Dolores seems insightful as she comments on how most people don’t have the courage to see the world as it really is…and then she returns right back to the beginning of her loop, reminding us she’s, well, not that insightful.