Lutz / Co-writer here. Thanks for your feedback! I'm mostly to blame for the excessive use of symbolism as I'm personally a big fan of visual storytelling as op

Lutz / Co-writer here. Thanks for your feedback! I'm mostly to blame for the excessive use of symbolism as I'm personally a big fan of visual storytelling as opposed to focusing on dialogue to explain the set-up in a scene. But I agree with you, maybe it was a little too much considering the context was already set very early into the scene!