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Police visit

posted 7 years ago by dlynch843
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Goldberg and company were portrayed as truly creepy when Mill was brought in for questioning---Goldberg was obnoxious and Mill's response to her was how any reasonable person would respond. The question is: which side is Altman on?
Were the cops supposed to be justified in their hostility? Altman's camera was right on Mill's face. The audience I saw this with thought his treatment by the police was hilarious--which was kinda putrid to experience.
It was the same in M.A.S.H., where you had a bad character played by Robert Duvall, but his treatment by the 'good' side was equally creepy. Altman always goes overboard and ruins any moral justification in attacking a 'bad' person.
Griffin Mill's guilt was so ambiguous in his confrontation with Kahane, who was the aggressor. I know the world isn't simply good vs evil, and I know Altman is on the side of the creative person--but why make the producer's enemies equally bad?

[–] Redsfan001 (6003) 4 months ago

Weirdly written scene, ending in the surreal. I suppose that Altman wanted to keep the viewers focus on Mill's experience.

I did chuckle when Mill, reflexive like, goes into Lt.'s corner office for a meeting and Goldbergs character corrects him to sit down in her open office for a chat.