Well, I guess one point is (to remind myself) not to respond to a thread that needs longer explanation using your iPad, which you hate to type extensive stuff on, and usually end up being too brief and misunderstood.
But, missing the point of this movie specifically, and *A* point of movies in general. When you watch a movie, you're asking someone to tell you a story. I just don't understand having the limitation of "Expecting it to play out in a certain fashion" from the beginning, and if it doesn't turn out that way, you'll hate it or "If there's a detail I don't like at the beginning, I'll just shut myself of from it to begin with." I don't think it's valid to call that an opinion, because you've never given time for a valuable opinion to be developed, based on the entire story instead of initial impressions.
To specifically address the second one, Dixon's problems go far beyond race, which should be pretty obvious from the beginning, and glaringly obvious by the middle. That's a critical part of the story that's being told.
Regarding some other things, again, I don't understand asking someone to tell you a story, and then not letting them tell their story, instead of yours. When something happens, what is the point to saying "Nobody would ever do that. This movie sucks." The people who created the movie put more time and effort into it than we do, especially when we're only 15 minutes into it. I'm not even arguing a matter of the opinion of the movie, but how the opinion is developed. Instead of saying "Nobody would do that" and completely wasting your time being shut off to the rest of the movie, maybe you could say "I wonder why she did that?" and then let the story answer your question. I think Mark Booth's explanation is on target, but you have no chance of knowing that when it happens. It was just clear from Red's reaction that it worked. Before she throws the money on the desk, he's not taking her seriously, but after she does, he's taking her very seriously.
I'm just surprised to see this much opposition to letting a movie tell its story, in a forum whose ultimate goal is watching movies. I don't want anyone to come in defending it as their opinion. That's not what I'm talking about. Maybe instead you can answer the question, "Why are you putting so much effort and expense into watching movies when you view them in such a limited way?"
Then maybe we can return the thread to Mr. Harris.
