Paper Heart comes out this week, and I am not going to republish my review from Sundance, mostly because I’ve seen the film again since then and actually think I was way too forgiving the first time around. But there are two things about the film that I think are worth noting:

1) Michael Cera was billed long before Paper Heart’s Sundance premiere as Charlene Yi’s “real-life boyfriend,” and the blurriness between the film’s scripted and documentary elements have been the major hook for much of the ample press coverage that Heart has enjoyed. And yet, in an interview with IFC.com, Charlene Yi now claims that she and Cera “never dated.” The little indie movie “packaged by” a major talent agency had a cynical marketing gimmick all along? I’ll never trust an anonymously sourced Hollywood Reporter story pregaming Sundance again!

2) On my second viewing of Paper Heart, a soundbite from one of the ostensible documentary sections of the film stood out in a way it couldn’t have at the Sundance screening. Yi goes to an Atlanta playground and talks about love with a group of black kids, and at one point a girl who looks to be pre-teen gushes, “Us girls love Chris Brown.” A relatively harmless admission of a celebrity crush in January, but totally creepy seven months later in light of the knowledge that Brown not only beat up his ex-girlfriend Rihanna but over the following months seemed to have significant trouble showing remorse for it.

The clip has adds nothing to the movie narratively — on the contrary, it’s unsettling enough to momentarily stop the film dead in its tracks, especially in light of the chatter that young girls don’t think domestic violence is that big of a deal. So why wasn’t it edited out in the six months between the Rihanna assault and the film’s release?