Totally Stupid Scenes/Mini-Plots

Throughout this movie, I was frequently struck in awe by how many totally pointless scenes or mini-plots were thrown into this movie to try to mold it into this perfectly rounded stereotypical movie.

At my screening, everyone was like...laughing in awkwardness at the blantantly pointless ass-shot barely one minute into the movie. To me this shot screamed, look at me I'm an edgey indie film, we dont give a *beep* 'bout nudity!

Rossario's Son, my god could his whole role be not the biggest cliche ever? Hes just the helpless kid the main guy uses to get close to his mom and doesn't realize his fathers dead. I especially love the part when he throws the bird into the air, it was so...heartclenching. If you look right down to it, his entire part wasn't needed, in fact the story would of worked a whole lot better if Rossario never had a son, hell wasn't even married but if her boyfriend or father or hell brother died in the war. Then you wouldn't have the whole audience wandering why this crappy mother leaves her kid alone all day to wander the streets of new york talking to strange men while shes off at a night club and 'protesting' in the streets by wearing all black and looking tough.