With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

