It’s a no-name brand, thin with a flat surface in somber tones of brown, black, blue, burgundy and orange, each a color found in the film.

“It affected me mentally, physically and spiritually,” Snoop said, briefly growing somber.

Some viewers may be wary of the somber subject matter — initially, were the actors?

Halfway through, he ran to the piano and tapped out a “somber and slow” waltz idea, and on top of it a dark, coiling melody — with “something off but also maybe something romantic in it.”

The production doesn’t shy away from such somber notes.