he just says it’s primarily about sacrifice
But it’s not.
It’s not about sacrifice because ultimately it’s not really primarily about anything, it’s almost about a lot of different things, one of them being sacrifice.
My full quote was
he just says it’s primarily about sacrifice, or that’s what he thought it should be about.
And when he says it’s about sacrifice, he’s saying “when I watched the rough cut, I saw what the film needed, which was to be about sacrifice.” If you don’t think the final product is about sacrifice, the proper critique isn’t that “he doesn’t understand the movie as much as some dude on the internet,” it’s that “he wanted the movie to be about sacrifice, but he failed to make it so.”