What’s Aged the Worst?
Racial blame; dated ads, disputed; clothes and decor; stepfather introduction; teeth; suspect description; fake Rizzuto; shaming; deleted Bracco scene
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- The killer’s racist blame-shifting is a negative candidate despite its continuing plausibility.
- Newspaper dating ads are dated technologically, but their social mechanics are defended as enduring.
- The men’s stretched-out white sleeping shirts look unpleasant.
- Frank’s cartoon-alligator shower curtain exemplifies poor divorced-man decor.
- Helen’s premature introduction of Frank as the child’s new stepfather is criticized.
- Pacino’s yellow teeth and the unbrushed morning kissing are unappealing.
- Frank’s description of a Black suspect’s hair is dated and uncomfortable.
- Modern image searches would expose the fake Phil Rizzuto in the Yankees sting.
- Frank shaming Helen for dating is hypocritical, even if the behavior persists today.
- Deleting the ex-wife scene loses useful emotional depth; its defense may partly reflect affection for Lorraine Bracco.