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Record W4413811301 · doi:10.1386/jepc_00080_7

Trust and betrayal in Kristian Lever’s I Need You to See Me

2025· article· en· W4413811301 on OpenAlexaff
Tom Ue

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of European Popular Culture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNarrative Theory and Analysis
Canadian institutionsCape Breton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBetrayalLeverPsychologySocial psychologyEngineering

Abstract

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Kristian Lever’s ambitious short film I Need You to See Me (2024) centres on the relationship between troubled ballet student Hilton (Rory Toms) and substitute teacher Ethan (Sam Salter). In this interview, Lever and I discuss how his company Klever Creatives has expanded from telling stories via dance and dance theatre to film, and we examine this project, which brings it all together. Lever goes over the casting process before delving into the world of the ballet school and how it so often fails to provide young people such as Hilton with adequate support. In the film, Hilton faces homophobia at home, and behind the scenes, he has kicked a boy in the face. However, he weaponizes his vulnerability; and he abuses Ethan’s trust when he blackmails his teacher sexually. Lever and I go over his reading of the film, what Hilton’s actions mean for him and what they mean for Ethan, and the prospects of Lever’s returning to these characters. This interview advances scholarship by introducing Lever’s creative programme, by examining the film’s depiction of the ballet classroom, and by exploring how it might do more.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.079

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0180.030
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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