Well, they did.

Black Hole is about people making a lot of bad choices. It’s a horror film where everyone takes a turn being the monster and the victim until they are both, one way or the other. And in that flattening of distinctions is a metaphor, for human experience.

People do a lot of bad things that leave a mark, or could—drinking, smoking, driving too much, driving drunk. It’s easy to say, “Why would they do that?” But harder to really look at why they did that. At the loneliness that’s at the center of the book—the title referring to it–the loneliness that seems bottomless, and sucks everyone into it. When someone willingly goes with someone who’s going to do them harm, it’s that feeling–like they’re alone and this is their chance to not be alone–that makes them do stuff like this. They do it thinking it’s like a commitment. And yes, it’s sad, and in one way it looks really dumb, but all over the world, people are doing things that put them at risk.