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Scent of a Woman

Picking Nits

Scent of a Woman The Rewatchables

The section questions the prank, heightened senses, empty streets, the Ferrari dealership, Baird discipline, and the dress-uniform suicide trope.

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  • The blind Ferrari drive is called the movie's biggest nitpick and judged impossible even at low speed.
  • The active job-posting bulletin board used to arrange Charlie's holiday job is questioned.
  • The panel questions whether everyone at school would already know who committed the prank.
  • The colonel's ability to detect Charlie's movements makes his blindness seem inconsistently superpowered.
  • Donna's name is treated as a poor fit for the tango partner.
  • The Ferrari drive occurs across impossibly empty city streets without signals, pedestrians, or traffic.
  • The location of a Manhattan Ferrari dealership beside empty driving streets is questioned.
  • Baird's school-wide disciplinary hearing, blackmail tactics, and instant committee verdict seem implausible.
  • The dress-uniform suicide setup is criticized as a showy military-officer trope also used in A Few Good Men.
  • The prank depends on an improbably engineered milk balloon and the headmaster choosing to pop it while standing on his car.