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Dangerous Minds

Picking Nits

Pfeiffer as a Marine; no friends or dates; fancy French restaurant choice; Durrell left without leftovers

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  • One participant does not buy Pfeiffer as a Marine, contrasting Demi Moore in G.I. Jane and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor; another buys it because she does not back down.
  • Why she has no friends or dates is answered in-film: a recent divorce from an abusive husband, and a fellow teacher as her only friend.
  • Why she chose the fussiest French restaurant is questioned; one reading says it reflects treating whiteness as the center of everything, another that it pushes the kids out of their comfort zone, as in The Wire.
  • The third dinner invitee misses the dinner and gets no leftovers while Callie does; it is noted Callie told her ahead and Raul told her he could not make it.