It’s insane.” “You didn’t even look at me once!” a distraught Sink says. The fight that comes in a kitchen afterward is emotional, with O’Brien yelling, “Literally a moment that I don’t even fucking remember, that you’re like fucking holding me hostage over.
The extended argument in the middle of the film - a sequence subtitled “the first crack in the glass” - comes after the O’Brien character lets go of Sink’s hand during a dinner party with his friends. Fans have long assumed the number is about her breakup with Jake Gyllenhaal, though she has never publicly named names. The short includes visual references to lyrical motifs that date back to the 2012 version, like a scarf the male protagonist holds onto after the breakup - O’Brien is wearing it during that climactic moment - and also fresh details from the expanded version, like Swift singing about being stood up at her 21st birthday party (an apparently real-life incident that was also the subject of another “Red” song, “The Moment I Knew”).