Picking Nits
The usual as Bud Light, disputed; missing insanity defense; cigarette holding; absent altar-boy witnesses; tape discovery
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- Finding the correct abuse videotape depends on a label visible only by freeze-frame, leaving the selection and fast-forwarding apparently implausible.
- Ordering the usual and receiving a Bud Light divides opinion: critics want a distinctive cocktail, while the defense says it simply establishes a frequent customer and ordinary civil servant.
- The elaborate third-man strategy is questioned when an insanity defense seems available from the violent facts; the counterargument is that Roy had not yet been discovered.
- Linney spends too much time holding and shaking a cigarette rather than smoking it, despite a counterexample at the beginning.
- The absence of other altar-boy witnesses is questioned; fear of Aaron and Alex’s wish to disappear are possible explanations.