is it just me or was Detective Mills an idiot?
He came off to me like an overly impulsive child who never knew when to think straight or keep his mouth shut. Right at the start of the film, when he and Somerset are investigating the guy who ate himself to death, Mills seems to have this constant need for attention with the way he rambles on about some useless, unrelated murder case that happened in the past and when Somerset tells him to go fetch the forensics team, Mills has to take a moment to shine a flashlight at his face to show him how he feels about being having to take orders from a veteran in the field. And then for whatever reason, having to read a book that features poetry seems to put him into so much frustration to the point where he winds up throwing the damn book against the windshield and then acts like a fidgety child at the station later when he is told to wait till John Doe strikes again. I can probably list off a few more examples but I'll stop here. Either way, did it come off to anyone else but me that Detective Mills was a bit of an idiot? I get that he's meant to be a bit hot-headed and impulsive, but there are times where he just comes off as being straight up immature and childlike to me. Such as how just reading the word "bondage" seems to trigger a reaction out of him thinking that it's a reference to BDSM. Seriously, was anyone else bothered by this?
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