What do you suppose he found when he scrutinized these miles of celluloid with Pitt doing nothing and taking his sweet time doing it?
There were miles of celluloid that he scrutinized.
Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.