Does no one get the allegory?
Kevin Smith edited this himself, and if you watch it knowing that, the allegory seems so clear.
Maybe watch it again, with Hollywood in mind, what it does to you, what it makes and remakes of you, what it turns you into, and that some end up totally ok with the monster it made you and the people you gave up to be there, and the people you ruined, because you have fans and a lot of haddock tossed at you with love.